Oh, Wow!!

James and I were driving down to see the girls when we stopped at a funky little antique/craft shop in a pasture outside Franklinton, Louisiana. We were greeted by an elderly lady sitting in a rocker flanked by two old yard dogs. (I love old yard dogs.) She invited us in to take a look around. What we found inside was not what we expected....

Talk about reuse, repurpose, recycle!!!! Everything imaginable had been transformed into art. I'm not even going to attempt to describe the contents of that barn, because I just couldn't. But I did notice right off the bat that everything in there had been painted by the same hand.

"Did you paint all this?" I asked the lady on the porch.

"Yes", she replied, "how do you like my fish? My garden fence fell down so I turned the boards into fish."

The twinkle in her eye was both proud and mischievous. Her fish were whimsical and magical. I know you want to know what filled the shelves and baskets, and piled up on the floor, but I can't begin to list it all. I was dumb struck, but worse, I didn't have my camera.

I couldn't leave without something from artist Sarah Nelson's prolific collection of work. I chose two old boards that were carelessly, deftly painted with flowers. They adorn each side of  my garden shed.

Oh, O week is over, but wasn't it fun?!

Until tomorrow,

Shelli

Art and composition tolerate no conventional fetters: mind and soul soar above them. ~Joseph Haydn, 1779