Lady Bug Circus

Opening at Zeitgeist on You Tube

 

 

 

 

 

Original music performed by Donald Fillius Thank you, babe.

Special thanks to Jack Eskelin, Kelly Lyles, Stephanie Pearson, Rolf Gruen

and Bryan Yeck of  Zeitgeist.

Oaxaca Streetchildren Grassroots Shrine ONLINE Auction is Coming Soon 2011

Opening  Friday, April 29 in the evening to the public (whole world) for a preview and the ONLINE auction bidding to be Announced, May 7, exact times to be announced.http://corazon.typepad.com/gallery_of_hope/ is where you can see more shrines.

My Uncle Bill Judkins

                                                                      Willard King Judkins

                                                                            1931     to     2011

My uncle was a fine wood worker and cabinet maker. He made wine and loved Bob Dylan. He was 6'8". He baked short bread and made spiced nuts. He hosted holiday dinners; served prime rib on a long carved wood table covered in white linen, china and silver. Toward the end of the evening he'd sing a song about the boll weevil. He collected oriental rugs. He made jewelry and at my request in 1969 made me a silver peace symbol to wear around my neck. He wore a Stetson, smoked a pipe and drove a truck. He embroidered on my sister's jeans. Took us to Disneyland when I was in kindergarten. He was the original recycled material artist creating a play horse for me out of a barrel, a rubber tire saddle and loosened rope mane and tail. He was a hunter and used every part of the deer. Antlers became polished buttons and buckskin became pouches, vests or part of a bellows. We'd go for pizza and as we drove through Berkeley he would casually point at an establishment (Ski Hut, Narsai David's...) and say, "I made those doors." At Easter he gave us each a 5 pound rocky road egg. He loved to have his photograph taken. This one was taken by Andy Stewart in the early '70s. He made everything he did look easy. He was an extra in The Gambler movie and had his own line of furniture in Santa Fe, New Mexico for a time. He grew up in Richmond and Mariposa. My mother told a story about him when he was little. She said he set a field on fire and when his mother asked him why he had, he said it was because he wanted to see the fire trucks. His punishment for this was to sit under the kitchen table and NOT see the fire trucks. I was also told that one summer he grew 6 inches and slept through most of it. In 1970 or so I introduced him to my junior high drama/English teacher. They married, had two daughters and became a tightly knit family. My uncle was an amazing man in life and in dying. He will be greatly missed by all who loved him.

Last One Before the Show

 

This is the last one I'm making for the show, it's entitled V.O.G. Whew! I've been working like a mad woman and now it's time to stop. This piece is similar to the one for the Street Children of Oaxaca auction coming up next month.

Look What I Found