QWERTY

Brought home a functional 1930's portable Royal Junior typewriter today. Found it at a garage sale for $ 20. The woman said her aunt still used it until she passed away a few years ago. I thought that was pretty cool, I now wish I had asked : "What did she type"? Letters to the editor, or to a dear friend far away? Recipe cards? Or perhaps she wrote stories, clicking away on the gleaming glass-covered keys, words hammered out in an iconic font that we strive to duplicate today on our modern keyboards.

Jewelry Assemblage

I have hundreds of antique optometrist lenses. a few years back I collaged them and hung them from simple ball chains as pendant necklaces. Just recently I got some of them out and incorporated this one into a necklace assembled from broken vintage jewelry. I started with an old mother-of-pearl rosary, there is an antique clasp, an old holy medal and other fragments. The collage is a girl with a wolf and a dictionary clipping 'mythology'.

left brain right brain words and pictures

What did I just read? That a person can either think primarily in words or in images. And that the completely visual thinker may be less empathetic. But what interests me is checking out how I think and when do I choose to think verbally (in complete sentences I have noticed) and when am I primarily visual? Do I switch back and forth depending on the situation? Am I thinking words and pictures simultaneously? When I am working on an art project, do I abandon the constant comments of the linear left brain? Am I flexing the right brain and reveling in imagery? It might depend upon the task - either primarily carrying out a planned construction or processing the (ever evolving) idea of the piece.
hmmm.......

Christmas circa 1974?

In this photo it looks like I am emerging from, or part of, the mobile that Jeff made from rare Canadian woods. We all appear to be enthralled and waiting for our turn with the latest technology, a (pocket sized!) calculator with a power cord! Actually I think that I am showing off that I can spell my name numerically on a calculator, 317537, which upside down reads "LESLIE"

Our house in Milwaukee

Mom, Dad and me in front of our house on 67th Street in Milwaukee. I guess my big brother Jeff is taking the picture.