CBAS: Bookworks 8

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Free Day

Feeling full of energy when we arrived late, yesterday afternoon, we decided to do all the booth setup at once. Because we did, we got to sleep in late and do a little sight-seeing today. Last year, we visited the American Association of Woodturners exhibit, Tops, Boxes, and Treenware. We enjoyed it so much, we wanted to visit again. The potter’s wheel and the lathe both function in a very similar way, and the current exhibit, Open/Closed, a collaborative effort between the American Association of Woodturners and the Northern Clay Center, highlights those similarities, as well as the differences, between the two techniques. Several of my favorite turner/carvers had work in the show, but I only managed a detail photograph of Jacques Vesery's dish with eggs and feather.

Next stop was the Minneapolis Institute of Arts. I loved the red branches of the Red Twig Dogwood at the entrance.


Mostly, we just wandered around. I particularly liked these baskets. The museum is very nice about letting one photograph items in their permanent collection.

Doctor Appointments & An Exhibit

An exhibit of embroidered textiles I visited today. More images at F.I.G.

Tomorrow it is supposed to snow, sleet, rain. The city is hunkering down. I gave thanks that my doctor appointments were today, instead of tomorrow. The mammography technician told me that it took her three hours during the snow storm last week to drive home, usually a fifteen-minute trip, and the receptionist said that it took her two hours just to get out of the employee parking garage because everyone was leaving at the same time and no one would let her ease out of her parking space into the exiting traffic line. In fact, everywhere I went this past week, I heard similar stories.

The photograph is of the machine that takes mammograms. Some women avoid getting mammograms because they are afraid of the pain. Studies have shown that extreme pain is a myth. There may be mild discomfort from some, similar to a tight-fitting pair of shoes, but it is only for a very short time, less than a minute per x-ray for me.

When I saw this plate, I interpreted it as "3-D Dreams." Later, I saw another plate, 2D BEACH. A sign my interpretation was right?