Carin Fausett

Yes, the show at the Springville Museum is coming right up and all of us are working hard.  Julie Buckley, George and Kristen Barnhill, and Me will present new and fabulous stuff!  The show will include multi-medium, found objects, textiles, melted, earthy, highly crafted, 2d and 3d works!  That’s just the tip of what will be shown.

Above is a painting that I’ve been working on for the show, I think it’s almost done.  Soon I’ll start posting details of the work that will be presented – an appetizer.  So be there for the meal, Sept. 11, 2010!

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Rising to a Higher Power -  2009

$1795.00

This is one of the pieces that I got into the Spirituality Show, the lovely thing is that when I picked it up the curator said that I’d had a lot of comments on it.  Also she said that when her mother came to see the show that this piece made her cry.  Wow!  It absolutely made my day.

The frame was made for this piece by George Barnhill.  It has 24k gold leaf around the edge.  George is an artist, in his sculpture and his custom frame work.

I see this and I think of  how God is the most glorious artist and  scientist.  The natural world is incredible,  the way God works the laws of the universe to make beauty for us to remind us that there is something more than the muck and despair that many of us have to wade through.  The visual and auditory beauty that surrounds us in nature is evidence that we need more than practicality in our lives.  We need to be lifted up, to look up and receive hope.

The LDS Conference Center is an amazingly efficient and beautiful building. I couldn’t help myself I’ve always loved skylights, stained glass, and kaleidoscopes – looks like all three.

This fall was the county fair, lots of animals and lots of exhibits.  By the exhibit buildings are these wonderful trees, the trunks are quite thick.  I loved the flags  strung up between them.  It’s good to have holidays, celebrations and fairs. We all need things to look forward to.

It is amazing what farmers do to survive, to provide for their families, and produce a crop.  I do admire the symmetry of the sprinklers, but farmers and ranchers are really impressive.

I’ve been exploring on my bike a lot when the weather’s good.  In the morning the light is great, all the water just crystallizes.   Here it seems that the sun bleaches all the color leaving the light and dark.

We went to Swazie’s Beach, an imported beach on the banks of the Green River.  We had a terrific time going down the river and over the rapids.   The sun was pretty intense, thus the golf umbrella.  Nothing like laying on the beach trying to augment my fake tan with the real thing.

We were doing our homework under the cherry tree and it was populated with honey bees. Luckily they found interest only in the blossoms.

Every thing on this patch surrounding these sprinklers was lit up, with ice and light. I’ve seen it before and will see it again, and it’s still beautiful.