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Good Evening,
I have included 6 photos of my time at the University of Exeter, as well as
my travels throughout Europe during my semester abroad.
Thanks,
Mary Virginia Kizer Ball
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JULY 18, 2018 - BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS, USA: Old books on wooden table at Boston Public Library with blurred background. The Boston Public Library was the first free municipal library in the nation.
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I'm back home from my trip to Boston, and now I am diving into studying for my upcoming Master's Comprehensive Exam. It's in two weeks, and sums up all that I've been working on for the past three years. If I pass, then I'll graduate in May!
On a rainy chilly (read: beautiful!) day like this, what can make studying better more than freshly baked chocolate chip cookies and a tall glass of cold milk? :)
Photographed at the Reader Rock Garden on 22 September 2010.
Today, I set my alarm for 5:10 a.m., as I was going on a day of botanizing at a new location, but heavy, non-stop rain made us actually change our minds. Useless for taking photos, and not exactly good for ones camera. Also, it was only 4C (!!!) when I got up this morning - soaring to a balmy 7C when we were in the car, driving to the meeting place to check if we were going or not. A coffee stop was a great idea, while the five of us waited to see if the rain might clear - which it didn't. It's always disappointing when a trip is cancelled, but this is almost unheard of. On the way home, three of us called in at Tim Hortons and had a delicious combo of coffee and a breakfast, which made a very tasty and enjoyable stop. Thanks so much for the treat, Stephen, and for doing the driving! Oh, while we were at the first coffee place, a lady stopped to chat with us (she works at the place). She was so funny, telling us one joke after another, all of them simple and very cute. One that I can remember is:
"What did the 0 (zero) say to the 8?"
Answer: Nice belt!
I have two full days of botanizing tomorrow and the following day, so will be tied up and totally exhausted, ha! I find that back to back days are just too much for me now, but, all being well, I'll survive these two days of forest walking and getting down to the ground and back up again to photograph mushrooms and other things. Hopefully, the sun will shine and we will find some new things to add to our existing lists of flora and fauna for these two locations.
MoMA's Lily Auchincloss Study Center for Architecture and Design on the upper level and The Joseph and Sylvia Slifka Painting and Sculpture Study Center on the lower level but when I took this photo it was more like the Trish Mayo Light and Reflection Study Center
So as some of you know I am working on the next series The Book of Judges
It will be an epic sized 40-60 panel series encompassing all of the most overlooked book in the Bible. It's violent, heart-breaking and utterly compelling and I'm going to throw the next year at it. It'll push me past anything I've done in the past in terms of scale, complexity, technique and the shear number of people that need to be involved.
A few months ago I received a grant to do it. They said it was their favorite in 3000 to come in that year. It was a huge honor. It was the first I ever wrote, but unfortunately it was a matching grant...and there was no money to match it with. I couldn't accept it.
The director came out to see me personally in October suggesting ways to raise the money so that they could give us the grant. He said that if they could not fund the project, they would consider their year a failure...
We were thinking of every avenue possible, but just days before Christmas he called a special meeting of their board of directors just for this project. They voted for the first time in their history, and against their bylaws, to waive the matching status and to just give us the funds to do the project.
it's a humbling honor and now it's time to deliver.
This is Ehud, the second Judge (deliverer) of his people in a time where there was no king and everyone did what was right in their own eyes.
small oilgraph on panel
iPhone Photo: At Falkland Palace, home of James V and his daughter, Mary I, Queen of Scots. Not great quality because of the angle towards the light, but you weren't allowed any further into the room - it was roped off at the door - and this is the longest my arm could reach and still take a straight-ish photo with ye olde iphone 3g :)
I love old-style study/libraries. The word "study" these days tends to just mean a desk and a computer, with maybe a few files/books/texts around. But here there are ceiling-high shelves of leatherbound books in a wonderful array of colours, and the room has a desk, chair and a comfy sofa covered in cushions and a fireplace that I imagine on a cold, windy Scottish winter evening would be the best thing about this cosy room. Lovely flickering golden light to read by as well.
And then of course, there's the secret door in the bookshelf - what decent castle is without one?? Unfortunately, as I said, visitors weren't allowed into the room itself, so the room on the other side remains undiscovered to all but the imagination.
The Sherratt Library at Southern Utah University in Cedar City, UT. Great quiet atmosphere to study in.
A study for the "metaphysical milano" project that started with "moodisometric".
I like the tones here, but the positions of windows don't have a suitable rhythm.
Oh, and I also like the small curly things that hold the gutter-pipe.
My friend Amanda taking advantage of the nice summer weather outside our St. Catz dorm. Taken during study abroad at Cambridge, UK.
This is where I like my skirts, not to low but not over my belly button.
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Pattern review on Monday!
Cat study: Macro. "Punky the Cat" See album: www.flickr.com/photos/87249144@N08/albums/72177720296470039.
Taken during the final days of writing up my PhD. Endless nights sat in front of the computer trying to get the barstard finished.
I dont miss my old house. I am glad I have moved.