Monday, July 04, 2005

Summertime

Back home again. Syc Hill was great. We were on top of a mountain in North Carolina at an artist's retreat with no television, no radio, no phones in the room, no internet and no air conditioning. It's a beautiful place. It rained most of the week which made me happy because it kept it very cool. The mountains around us would appear, then disappear in the mist and clouds, then appear again. The shingles behaved and are pretty much gone and other than a day or two where I was grindingly tired, I felt very good. The twelve of us at the workshop shared the the artist's retreat with the Florida Society of Goldsmiths and they easily outnumbered us six to one. They were busy learning to forge, granulate, fabricate, and bond, hammering and using little torches and generally doing really fun stuff.

Because we were in the middle of nowhere, we ate in the dining hall. The food was contemporary southern. This meant that deserts often included something like cool whip.

While I was gone, Mothers & Other Monsters came out and my mother turned 90.

6 Comments:

Blogger Maureen McHugh said...

Thanks Ellen, I hadn't seen it.

You would have loved the goldsmith's stuff. All one of a kind. Some of it quite beautiful. You'd have been collecting business cards.

July 05, 2005 8:55 AM  
Blogger David Moles said...

Yay, Cool Whip!

July 05, 2005 11:10 AM  
Blogger Madeleine Robins said...

Ooo, I love watching metal-smiths of all variety work. What fun!

Welcome home, Maureen.

July 05, 2005 11:42 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Welcome back! You were missed. I'm glad you had a good time, the goldsmiths sound fantastic.

July 05, 2005 12:19 PM  
Blogger Responsible Artist said...

Glad it was fun and there was rain.

July 05, 2005 6:52 PM  
Blogger Maureen McHugh said...

Ellen,

They do have a website: http://www.fsg4u.com/

But they're a support organization, so they don't show the work. They have links, though.

July 06, 2005 8:53 AM  

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