Create Assemblages

 While watching Sunday Morning program, my church service/combo learning show, took me to my knees.
 Betye Saar, the artist, whom I had never heard of, touched me.
She creates assemblages!!
That is me, I require assembly!! I gather, summon, accumulate, hold a Come To Jesus meeting, rally, pack them in, herd together!!! Then somehow find the art, the joy in my stuff!! My thoughts, ideas, collections, evoke chaos and feelings of deep, down laughter or tears. Betye Saar, who is ninety, and still working, creates assemblages!! I love that word!!
 Years ago, while antique hunting, I found a bag of watch faces!! I looked at them during many different visits. I showed whatever kid was with me, these broken watch pieces, and thirty different size watch faces. They laughed at me, asking, "what cha going to do with those?" I don't ever know, I just know they should be coming home with me. I never bought them, the store closed down, and that was it.
Now to connect the dots.
Betye Saar had a beautiful project of clock faces, watch faces yesterday on the show!! She was having a gallery show, at MOMA. I yelled, "there it is, my watch pieces." I was like a proud mama.
She had other work, go online and view, one was a hanging, antique, christening gown, with all the names she had been called stitched in the hem!!! ( she is a beautiful, black woman, and these words had stung her) Very powerful. Also and old wooden ironing board with a print of slaves on a ship, a map of where their bodies would lay. Too much wonder and thought, amazing.
Her warehouse, where she works, needs me to visit. AND I am convinced she does not think about the clothes that need washing, or if the dryer just went off!! All people, need a space, an altar to create, touch, feel, be quiet in. She had a shelf of bird cages, I sighed!!
If that wasn't enough, the show had a little snippet about Richard Dreyfuss, take me home now!!
Goodbye Girl, one of my fav movies of all time, he stole my heart. I was a happy non church going human, ( Saturday Night Church, and all week mass, peeps!!) I thanked the good lord, for my Sunday morning service.
Today is Monday, rain all of February has, soaked my spirit, but I had Sunday Morning!!
I am headed to the art room, to create some assemblages!!
Where ever you are, join me, make something, think something wonderful. Travel, Read, Pray, Write, assemble your story.( ps, I can't find spell check on my webpage , they must know, I am not a big fan, of fixing mistakes!!) Oh wellllll, opps