Turtle Tchotchke Tuesday

Another sculpture by Pokey Park.

The others, including this one, here.

Turtle Tchotchke Tuesday

Remember our new Pokey Park sculpture of a Navajo-Churro Sheep dancing "La Bamba"? And remember how I mentioned that she does turtles, too? It turns out that she had a turtle in her Works in Progress section. If you buy one of her pieces before she turns it over to galleries you get it at a discount.

Who could pass up a turtle?

Yesterday, "El Pensador" arrived! Just in time for Turtle Tchotchke Tuesday.

El Pensador (plastron view)

El Pensador (carapace view)

Of course, this isn't a mere tchotchke...it's art.

Una Poca de Gracia

Jerry and I go to Palm Desert to celebrate our birthdays. We spend the day going into the many galleries up and down El Paseo Drive. We look for good stuff then at the end of the day we go back to any galleries that had pieces that spoke to us to see if they they really want to go home with us.

Adagio Galleries is one whose artists have always appealed to us. It's a rare trip to the desert that we don't come home with something new from Adagio.

Yesterday's was an ordinary trip.

With extraordinary results.

We came home with a new sculpture. It's "Una Poca de Gracia (one must posses a bit of grace)" by Pokey Park. Here are a couple of pictures of it.

It's a Navajo-Churro Sheep dancing "La Bamba." Its title is a line from the song.

This piece is on her web site but I can't link you directly to it. Her site is completely Flash based so you have to do your own clicking. (Hasn't she read Steve Jobs's Anti-Flash Manifesto? Flash doesn't work on mobile browsers so I couldn't check it out while I was there.) Go to her web site, select "Portfolio" then click on the "Goats, Sheep and Rams" link on Page 2. There it is. If you click on any picture you get a larger view of it. You also get a nice, long story about the piece on the right side.

Her work is at Lumina Gallery north of Taos if you New Mexicans want to have a nice outing to see pieces in person.

We had never heard of Pokey Park. She does turtles, too. Art can be expensive.

Who needs to save for retirement?