Red Sky

...in morning, Sailor's warning?

Well, it did snow...and brought a lovely white blanket that just might last until Christmas Eve....? 

It was a busy day - which I am not yet used to.... 

My sister is here with me for part of the Christmas holiday and it sure is nice to have company and help with preparing for the big day. We started out by driving in the snow up to Farm Boy to pick up our Christmas Turkey Dinner in a Box for tomorrow night, and of course, to grab some other little holiday treats whilst there. 

In the afternoon, for something less Christmassy, we drove down to our local art gallery to see the 32nd annual  juried exhibition of entries by the gallery's "creative patronage" This year's theme was Into the Now ..an apparently "open-ended and versatile theme sure to ignite diverse, thoughtful responses." 

Which I guess it did as the entries were all really different and were presented in a variety of media..paintings, drawings, mixed media, photographs, sculptures etc. 

The pieces of art were judged within age groups ie: Adult, Youth and Child..not within categories of different media. which made us curious as to what criteria the judges would have used to declare the winners. 

Our only response from the desk clerk was that he didn't know, but that perhaps they looked at "how well the piece represented the theme?.".Oh...that might be it, but that must have been a bit difficult..  because, to us at least, the theme seemed rather vague?

But, aha! We read later in the exhibit description of the theme ... 

"Whether it is "living in the now" or being relevant to the present, contemporarity has a way of making an impact on our lives in a relative way. This year's theme seeks to explore the emotive dimensions of visual culture."

Well, there you go! Apparently the one piece that confused us as to why it warranted a second place in the Adult category must have exhibited the "emotive dimensions of visual culture"!  

Somehow we missed that...

I always feel so inadequate trying to judge or understand art....I have trouble even understanding what the descriptions of an exhibit mean! 

At the end of such a trying and exhausting day, we spent the evening by the fire sipping egg nog and anxiously awaiting an approrpriate time to go to bed!