{"id":1049,"date":"2014-07-15T21:57:53","date_gmt":"2014-07-16T04:57:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.talkinggrid.com\/dev\/?p=1049"},"modified":"2014-11-09T09:13:51","modified_gmt":"2014-11-09T17:13:51","slug":"now-pull-together","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/talkinggrid.com\/dev\/now-pull-together\/","title":{"rendered":"NOW, Pull Yourself Together"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\nPart of “Australian Animals,” series by Frau Kolb, Acrylic on various (3×5″) panels,<\/strong><\/p>\n

Los Angeles, California September 2013<\/p>\n

You are living, reading.\u00a0 You clicked your way to this page, where you often visit, to see what Frau Kolb is up to.\u00a0 What is she UP to now?\u00a0 I understand your curiousity.\u00a0\u00a0 I am curious, too.<\/p>\n

I write.\u00a0 You read.\u00a0 You probably write, too.\u00a0 Do I read your blog?\u00a0 Or is your blog only in your head?\u00a0 Is it something you THINK about doing, writing and don’t do?<\/p>\n

Well\u2026 writing is a practice.\u00a0 You get better at it the more you do it.\u00a0 And\u2026 well, I’m glad I can type FAST.\u00a0 If I had to struggle with the mechanics of sentence structure and just getting the words down was a challenge this blog wouldn’t be slowly but surely gaining momentum.<\/p>\n

I’ve had some set-backs, for a moment I was visualizing this more as a on-line zine, with guest writers, featured and focused on, and I was planning my role to be more a behind-the-scenes,\u00a0 an administrative one.\u00a0 I thought I’d pay to have a jazzy platform built and\u2026 and\u2026 But\u2026 it turns out that IF I’m not careful this page will end up being like everything else on-line soul-less and commercial\u2026 that first vision did not work out.\u00a0 So\u2026. here I am typing and sharing with you samples of what flows from my head to hands.<\/p>\n

Recently, I’ve been working on this series of paintings, “Australian Animals.”\u00a0 Above is one example and if you are interested you can look under “Zoom in with Frau Kolb,”\u00a0 for more examples of my recent figurative painting(s), a series I am making with my daughter in mind.\u00a0 I’m painting so that she will have an encyclopedic reference on what kinds of strokes, modes, methods I have mastered.\u00a0 I used to be an abstract painter and I learned a lot about patterns and creating visual harmonies in that capacity.\u00a0 Yet, for me there was something pattently false about painting in Clement Greenberg mode.<\/p>\n

I’m glad that these attractive, unassuming, “Australian Animal,” puzzle pieces exist.\u00a0 I plan on making at least eight hundred of them.\u00a0 This is to be a full body of work.\u00a0 I’ve heard from a few people that they want to BUY these.\u00a0 I am not opposed to selling them, after they are all done, complete, and shown in a respectable gallery.\u00a0\u00a0 So\u2026 If you feel you MUST OWN well I might, maybe, well\u2026 whoever the dealer I allow to represent this work\u2026 WE SHALL SEE.\u00a0 In the meantime, I welcome your compliments, donations (Champagne fund), and invitations to fascinating events.\u00a0\u00a0 I’m honored that you make time to read this simple blog and that you appreciate that words pile up hot one on top the other until a world of knowing is born.<\/p>\n

Best regards,<\/p>\n

Frau K.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Part of “Australian Animals,” series by Frau Kolb, Acrylic on various (3×5″) panels, Los Angeles, California September 2013 You are living, reading.\u00a0 You clicked your way to this page, where you often visit, to see what Frau Kolb is up to.\u00a0 What is she UP to now?\u00a0 I understand your curiousity.\u00a0\u00a0 I am curious, too. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1930,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[22,26,163],"tags":[164,167,166,165],"class_list":["post-1049","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cultural-commentary","category-health-spiritual-fitness","category-personal","tag-frau-kolb-paintings","tag-notes","tag-random","tag-vision-for-talkinggrid"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/talkinggrid.com\/dev\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/1556238_10152585147348893_8315041165445022690_o.jpg?fit=1530%2C2048&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/talkinggrid.com\/dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1049","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/talkinggrid.com\/dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/talkinggrid.com\/dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/talkinggrid.com\/dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/talkinggrid.com\/dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1049"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/talkinggrid.com\/dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1049\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1931,"href":"https:\/\/talkinggrid.com\/dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1049\/revisions\/1931"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/talkinggrid.com\/dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1930"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/talkinggrid.com\/dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1049"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/talkinggrid.com\/dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1049"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/talkinggrid.com\/dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1049"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}