Snug inside The Bunkie Studio this past long and very rainy winter, once again I pulled together all prior year’s art making, took pictures and made them into another photo book (as I did last year), prior to putting it all away in storage to make room for whatever is going to happen this year. It was fun to look at it all again and remember what I was learning and why I was doing it as well as looking at the previous year’s book where it all began. Whatever it was that first inspired me to pick up a paintbrush, I haven’t put it down in over 2 years now, so it’s a pretty powerful force of inspiration you might say.
Author Archives: JeanEB
A Million Elephants
Today, across the planet from where I am, in Kenya, a giant bonfire is underway. Twelve funeral pyres were set alight, 11 piled with 105 tons of elephant tusks and another with 1.35 tons of rhino horns, all intercepted from illegal poaching of 8000 elephants and more than 300 rhinos.
Trade in ivory from African elephants has been illegal since 1989 but that hasn’t stopped it and in recent years there has been an alarming increase in poaching. In 1979 there were an estimated 1.3 million African elephants, today that number is around 400,000. Continue reading
Retail Therapy
When the going gets tough, the tough go…SHOPPING.
So what can possibly happen when one has too much time on one’s hands, a computer on the lap and a newly minted credit card within reach. A lot, to judge from the army of delivery trucks pulling into the driveway in recent days. Continue reading