about five minutes before the clos of the silent auction
OK some of you want to know what it's like at an auction. I decided to take a photo today while I was at the auction house down in Pacific Grove. The silent auction (junk lots) is down in the basement of the building. It's dark, dirty and cold. This auction house shuts down the silent auction at noon, so everyone runs down there and stands next to whatever lot they want. At the very last minute, they will write down their bid. Some women will go so far as to try and block others out. I went to pick up some XL framed art (I just want the frames) to alter and it's cheaper than going to Goodwill. When it stops raining I will unload my car and take pictures of what I dragged home.
Flat Fish Paper Arts was born many years ago when blogging first started. My family did a lot of camping and diving along the California coast. California halibut are huge fish that start out as any normal fish. As they age, one eye will start to move to the other side and the halibut will become flat so it can lay on the bottom of the ocean with both eyes facing up.
I always like the idea that we all start out the same but life experiences slowly changes us. In my case, my creative talents went the way of paper arts. Flatfish are always looking up when they mature and as with any artist, we see inspiration in everything around us - always looking up.
Evan and her flatfish
Years ago a local dive shop had a photo of a diver who caught a halibut so big he had to throw it over his jeep to take the picture. Our little spoof with our daughter sitting in her toy jeep with dad's halibut on the hood. 1987
1 comment:
omg omg omg
i'm excited!
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