{"id":2055,"date":"2014-12-08T09:13:17","date_gmt":"2014-12-08T17:13:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.talkinggrid.com\/?p=2055"},"modified":"2014-12-14T14:18:26","modified_gmt":"2014-12-14T22:18:26","slug":"lighthouse-with-kathy-goodell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/talkinggrid.com\/dev\/lighthouse-with-kathy-goodell\/","title":{"rendered":"The New Muse: Kathy Goodell in San Deigo!"},"content":{"rendered":"

Gently, a day is taking shape. \u00a0This visit is chiseled from the veined marble of long understanding. \u00a0Kathy Goodell and Frau Kolb are friends with a connection that spans decades in this life and the infinite in some other plain of existence, past lives playing a prominent role. Yet, this is our first time spending an entire week under one roof. \u00a0Will we get along?<\/p>\n

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Photo \u00a9 Kathy Goodell, 1 Dec. 2014<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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Hartmuth Kolb is pleased to visit Point Loma in San Diego, California<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Frau experiences refreshed awareness that life is phenomenological blooming of energy, fleeting blooms on the edge of time, the wind of ideas stirs reflection, when in the company of this refined Contemporary Art Muse. Thus, OPEN to talks on closing acts and end game strategy, we embrace a day of deep talks, woven into the breezy fabric of classic San Diego sight seeing.<\/p>\n

We wake up early, as usual. \u00a0The morning zips past. \u00a0At noon we were at San Diego International Airport, picking up our friend, a soul sister and personal Art Muse of Talkinggrid, Kathy Goodell, a human flowering of loveliness and edgy intelligence has arrived! \u00a0She is easy to spot, looking fashionable, in her HUGE sunglasses and “Op Art,” silk blouse. \u00a0She is a powerful Muse. We rush to greet her. \u00a0She embraces us with the warmth. BIG\u00a0HUGS! \u00a0Flowing kisses. \u00a0“Hello! Hello!” All around, our day is off to a rip roaring good start!<\/p>\n

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Kathy Goodell looking lovely with BIG SUN GLASSES in San Diego with Frau Kolb and The Family<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

On the way to lunch in Little Italy, in San Diego, The Art Muse of Talkinggrid, Kathy Goodell’s winning \u00a0personality is like a shawl, comforting. \u00a0In my world, Goodell is famous not just for her expansive and intellectually daring sculptures and art installations, but also for being a person whose personality is at crossroads of glass and metal, transparent grace, fragile, yet of enduring strength and lasting fortitude. \u00a0Her artistic oeuvre touches on the accidental, dreamy and quasi scientific in scope. \u00a0Her art work moves me. \u00a0She is a venerated teacher of art, mentor to many, with a following that spans generations, continents. \u00a0She graciously speaks to my little children about the recent Henri Matisse, exhibition,<\/a>\u00a0up now in New York City<\/a>, now,\u00a0connecting with them immediately, tending to that sacred spark, an interest in art, which we hold dear.<\/p>\n

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Muse Goodell is loving the organic food market, Jimbo’s in San Diego!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Always creating, Kathy Goodell, takes in San Diego<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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I painted this portrait of our amusing guest in a burst of inspiration, joy.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Snapping a Selfie!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Goodell’s good looks inspire artists, young and old.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Annabella, age 8, makes a nice drawing of Kathy Goodell.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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My Kid finds Goodell a worthy subject for a portrait.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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The Muse Departs<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Goodell, simply, oozes neon talent. \u00a0She is one of those beings that lives and breaths the mystical condition of being a “True Artist,” a multi-faceted creature, adventure ready. \u00a0She thrills me with her floating free generosity of spirit, her cool fashion sense, and her quick mind. \u00a0She is a favorite of the lively Contemporary ART MUSES, a female goddess of great creativity and wit, a source of artistic inspiration to many a young and an old artist, both inspiring to art legends and generations of students. \u00a0Goodell is friend who has earned the extra attention not just from Frau Kolb but from all her army of adoring students, all grateful for her indefatigable encouragement and support.<\/p>\n

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Photo \u00a9 Kathy Goodell, 1 Dec. 2014<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Imagine being a real<\/em> Contemporary Artist, an art professor, paid for your expertise in art, a Guggenheim Grant recipient, Best Friend to Frau Kolb, Star of Talkinggrid, and international MUSE! \u00a0A respected person known for knowing about ART! \u00a0Think of that<\/em>… Imagine being known as an Contemporary Artist and being a woman respected for her solid creativity and staggering productivity? Now, go Google yourself. \u00a0What does Google say about you? \u00a0Google Kathy Goodell, you will discover a woman at the crossroads of American History, a person of singular interest, and tremendous charisma. Be impressed. \u00a0I am.<\/p>\n

We drive to the Historical and Natural Preserve of Point Loma, gladly paying $5.00 per vehicle entrance fee. \u00a0We look about and then decide to visit the Light House. \u00a0“I Love LENS!!!” Goodell purrs. Up into the little hill we go, which like so many such relics from a time past, seems tiny, a little precious jewel of a home, which once housed the keeper of the lonely lighthouse and his family. \u00a0The rooms, spick and span, chamber pots under the beds, pitcher and bowl for washing one’s face, a little guitar in the corner, hand made quilts… the usual American frontier artifacts of a time just recently past, idealized as formerly simpler.<\/p>\n

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Point Loma is a lovely vista point from which you can see all of downtown San Diego, Bay and Harbor.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The Point Loma lens are so<\/em> beautiful. \u00a0Old glass, it captures the room around it, the light, the rainbows, upside down and inside out, the play of here and there is OTHERWORLDLY. \u00a0One could image that these objects might somehow be portals to different dimensions. \u00a0Doorways into space. \u00a0The infinite.<\/p>\n

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Excellent iphone image of the LENS at Point Loma in San Diego by Talkinggrid Muse, Contemporary Artist, Kathy Goodell.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

In Goodell’s company I find myself thinking about the perpetual. \u00a0What is FOREVER? \u00a0Our friendship is a lasting one, the seed of which was a casual comment Goodell made as the young Frau Kolb… I wasn’t Frau Kolb then… I was a very young woman working in an Italian Restaurant in Soho, when Kathy came in to dine. \u00a0I waited on her. \u00a0She saw something in me. \u00a0That we became like family is a testament to her OPEN heart and generosity of spirit. \u00a0Her friendship is an unwavering source of good in my life and I hope to be forever that in hers. \u00a0All this LOVING makes me think of DEATH. \u00a0Death.<\/p>\n

The finality of it… really, each of us only has a few close friends in this world. \u00a0Goodell is one of mine. \u00a0Thus, with her I discuss the grand plan, my vision(s). \u00a0We share the minutia of our days and compare notes about people that admire us, her, and\/or me. \u00a0We know a number of the same people, being that we are both California\/New Yorkers: girls who wear the robes of Muses, forming a Muse Team, inspiriting each other to new heights.<\/p>\n

Actually, when I die, I’d like for my tombstone to say: “Artist, Mother, Friend!” \u00a0I’ve always enjoyed imagining my own funeral. \u00a0I like the idea that ALL MY X Boyfriends might come together to mourn me. \u00a0A handful of handsome men in tuxedos, of course. \u00a0They would drink whiskey, or ambrosia, make toasts, boasts, and talk about what a pain in the ass I was. \u00a0Hartmuth, my husband, would defend my memory! \u00a0I would attend the event, as a sexily clad ghost, wearing a gigantic black hat bedecked in veils. \u00a0The men, steadily drinking might glimpse me here, there. \u00a0However, I vow, not to linger… wouldn’t want to get stuck as a wandering spirit, on this side of the river Styx.<\/p>\n

I ask Kathy Goodell<\/a>:<\/p>\n

What three words would you chose for your tombstone?<\/p>\n

“OH MY GAWD!” \u00a0She answers.<\/p>\n

Who do you imagine might most weep when that moment of dropping a handful of dirt on the casket arrives?<\/p>\n

“Besides YOU, Frau?” \u00a0She asks, hazel eyes twinkling. \u00a0(Of course, Goodell, did not really say that… but I can dream. \u00a0If I really asked her this question, I think she would say her niece would be there, eyes a flood.)<\/p>\n

What achievement(s), as a public person, artist are you most proud of?<\/p>\n

“As a public person… I have to think about it for a minute… That my art might infect some with a sense of the eternal.” She answered, really.<\/p>\n

How do you expect to be remembered?<\/p>\n

“All depends on who is doing the remembering.” She says reminding me that every memory is but a flickering candle in the unceasing wind. Who cares how we are remembered when so much of what is remembered is tarnished in the self serving act of remembering? \u00a0We live but for a flashing instance, to be forgotten is inevitable. Yet, by making great art Goodell is among those that will leave an enduring legacy.<\/p>\n

I\u00a0ask Goodell a handful of earthy questions (above) on her second day in San Diego. \u00a0Each day here Goodell tells me of at least one beautiful story of her life and her development. \u00a0She is a San Francisco native, successful transplant to New York, with an international exhibition record and a following that spans generations. \u00a0 As a child she was curious about religions, not finding the perfect spiritual fit she designed her own rituals, methods of observance. \u00a0Her family, long established in the United States, has historically interesting characters galore. \u00a0She is a person whose personal history is fascinating and instructive to the extreme. \u00a0I would like to learn more about her and a week in her gracious company, leaves me longing for more of her causal bounty\/beauty.<\/p>\n

I’d like to share with you, more of Goodell’s Goodies, stories, images and a creative perspective unlike any other. \u00a0I am inspired by Goodell’s tenacity, wit, and inner glow. \u00a0She represents the mature woman we’d all like to become, a person that owns herself and holds her own in any situation, a woman I admire. \u00a0As Goodell\u00a0prepares to depart we sit next to each other and I relinquish a little control over the image I want to project of her glory. \u00a0Her unwavering modesty, overrides, my desire to BANG a DRUM, toot HER HORN, and CELEBRATE like a champion gladiator her enduring brilliance, her remarkable SHINE.<\/p>\n

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Acrylic on canvas,4th of December 2014 \u00a9 Frau (Caridad) Kolb<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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