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You're Invited!

This week the Summerland Community Arts Council did a great little postcard "competition" themed "The Future: What your world will look like after tomorrow".

Being stuck in my spring cleanup work and looking for an opportunity to get re-connected with my artistic vision, I took on the challenge after seeing a couple of the cool entries already in--one an abstracted collage in a box, another the paper was cut into bones of a skeleton and reassembled, hanging in a framework of glass shaped like a coffin! This got me thinking, what does my future look like--and I quickly realized that I am here, living into my future in the beautiful community of Summerland (how can you not like a place with a name like that?), and developing my art career in my brand new studio--working name "Trout Creek Studio".

So, I sat for a while with my 5" X 7" postcard and decided to use both sides--on the front a map, the rough approximation of Trout Creek, with more of a tree-shaped stream running through it and 3 trout in the water, and my studio placed approximately correctly, and on the back, well, a postcard "TO: Humans and other beingswho appreciate beauty" Address: 123 Anywhere Close (or far), Planet Earth (no postal code necessary).

I designed my own blue stamp "Heaven Can Wait" and in the cancellation circle wrote Trout Creek Studio.

Here's the text:

Hi All!

I can't beliweve I found this fabulous place! The natives are friendly, the wine and weather rival Australia (at least in summer the weather does!), the food is evenbetter, from orchards everywhere you look. Great Artists too!

I have to keep pinching myself when Irealize this is what my world will look like in the future! Picture this: A studio (my own!) surrounded by gardens and orchard. A winery around the corner (and a few further away up on the benches, as backup), a sandy beach with a lighthouse (one of myu favourite symbols) even closer! A spectacular lake that constantly changes colour, and stretches further than te eye can see. Vistas from the shore, the local hills, and mountains, andwalks and hiking trails that take full advantage.

You can even walk on a giant's head--how's that for discovering magic?!

There's paintings for me to do forever--come and see me soon. I can hardly wait to show you what I'm up to! (Or you can see it on the web--www.ElaineWatts.com (note to viewers--you are currently here!)--but I'd rather see your smiling face in Trout Creek, Summerland!")

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Consider yourselves invited!! Would love to see you in my studio!