REMEMBERING TOMIE on October 4, 2020

In the top photo, you can see at the peak of the ceiling, in the Mercer Room, a stained glass window designed by Tomie and executed by Jamie Morgan of Wilmot, NH.

When the sun is shining through the window, you can watch the colorful design move from one side of the room to the other.

In the bottom photo, you can see that the sun shining through the window had briefly landed on a creche on Christmas Day, 2016. (Bob)

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Day Three of the October, 2020, Peace Novena

Think and say the word, or think and say “Peace.”

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REMEMBERING TOMIE on October 3, 2020

Here’s a seasonal art-mail from 2017. (Bob)

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Day Two of the October, 2020, Peace Novena

Think and say the word, or think and say “Peace.”

REMEMBERING TOMIE on October 2, 2020

Tomie created this mural in 1958 for the Dominican Sisters of Peace in Niskayuna, New York, outside of Schenectady. Tomie would have been 23 or 24 years old at the time.

He used a painting technique he learned at the Skowhegan School of Painting & Sculpture: true fresco, or buon fresco. Pigments, ground in water, are applied to wet plaster. The color becomes part of the wall.

We visited the Dominican Retreat and Conference Center several years ago and the mural looked to Tomie as vibrant and fresh as it did when he finished it in 1958. Very exciting and satisfying for him.

https://www.dslcny.org/our-mural.html (Bob)

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