i've been working away here in the studio on the 'five pugs from puerto rico' and am wondering how will i be remembered when i die?...i don't mean this to be an post about my ego because i'm sure that there are some of you out there who have wondered on occasion the same thing...the past six years of my life have been the most prolific time in my career with close to five hundred paintings floating around the world with my signature on them...i wonder, 'will i be remembered as an artist'?...a 'female artist'?...a 'canadian female artist'?...or will i simply die without national gallery doors opening up to present to the public a retrospective of my life's' work?...i don't have any children and at this point really don't plan on having any (a whole other topic later on the state of the world and i won't contribute to the human breeding process until things here on earth are better) so i won't have 'little mes' running around to speak of me once i'm gone...my eggs aren't frozen next to celine dions'--(and frankly the world doesn't need another one of her!) in some human freezer bank in manhattan...so what's left but my work substituting as my 'children' living in various parts of the world...what are they saying 'about me'?...have they made an impact on another person's life?...will they end up in a garbage heap somewhere or passed down to the next generation?...will they appear on the antiques roadshow and given a lofty value?...i wonder.....
how will i be remembered?...how will you be remembered?...and in the end does it really matter?....
hmmmm.....
3 comments:
Intriguing post... I will have to think about this...
Lovely post, Lisa.
As to memory and remembrance?
You are incanting it now,
John :)
Some headlines for you:
Artist found dead under pile of un-gessoed canvas - serendipidous accident or evil plot?
Dog Candy painter Lisa G was laid to rest today after a long battle with hiccups. It was never determined the cause of the fatal hiccups - many bemoan that it may have been her supermodel diet o r love of the roasted marinated foods....
Artist found dead! Neighbour charged with murder by leaf blower!
Lisa G - well known painter of things that just don't match ANYONE's couch - died today in Kingston Penn. Ms. G had been serving 25 to life for murder by glass tainted soup. It is believed to have been really good potato soup.
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