Aunt Iva
Craig’s Aunt Iva went to her grave without divulging where she found the bittersweet that she decorated her home with every fall. I love bittersweet as well. An invasive, parasitic, and noxious vine which is strangling trees in the Northeast, bittersweet is somewhat rare around here. And, in large measure, its odious qualities are [...]
Category Archives: Marion
Bittersweet
November 10, 2009, 10:18 am
Carlos Ferguson / Tiny Circus
September 24, 2009, 6:11 am
I’ll tell you a story.
I first met Carlos Ferguson in the summer between his junior and senior year at Grinnell College. He was venturing into the fabled printmaking program at the U. of IA, where I was a graduate student. My hours at that point in my life were ungodly. I got up at 4:30 [...]
Gateway to Marion
July 29, 2009, 8:03 pm
I really didn’t want to give up the studio time I knew it would require to draw Craig’s idea. After the Fourth of July, the loosely conceived projects of summer are subjected to their first deadlines, and time reclaims its irrevocable, dictatorial pace. But, when Craig described to me an idea that he felt needed [...]