Rainy Day Thoughts





I’ve been looking at and thinking about assemblages today. . .


Joseph Cornell's "Rose Vents" - collection of MoMA, NYC

probably because of writing memoir bits and pieces recently


Untitled - Robert Rauschenberg

and thinking about how scraps of our past just keep accruing,


Close up of Leighanna Light piece - photo © Leighanna Light


accumulating, being altered, getting burned for fuel.


© 2010 Meri Arnett-Kremian


Realizing that broken can be made beautiful.


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