From: owner-joni-digest@smoe.org (JMDL Digest) To: joni-digest@smoe.org Subject: JMDL Digest V2011 #725 Reply-To: joni@smoe.org Sender: owner-joni-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-joni-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk Unsubscribe: mailto:joni-digest-request@smoe.org?body=unsubscribe Website: http://jmdl.com JMDL Digest Tuesday, December 13 2011 Volume 2011 : Number 725 ========== TOPICS and authors in this Digest: -------- Re: Joni: "You're my favorite work of art!" [T Peckham Subject: Re: Joni: "You're my favorite work of art!" Nice story, Patroness Patti! Do we get to see a picture of it after the gift [that] goes on has been given? :-) Terra On Tue, Dec 13, 2011 at 1:47 PM, Patti Parlette wrote: > Dear Joniamigos: > > It's coming on Christmas, so I'm popping in to say hello and share a Joni > "love is a story told." > > I had a brainstorm (like lightning from above!) a few months ago. My best > friend (the one I met in a college apartment in 1975 who put Blue on the > turntable and turned to ask: Do you like Joni Mitchell?) has a nephew > whose girlfriend is a young local artist. I once asked her about doing a > Joni work of art (she has done Jimi Hendrix and Jerry Garcia and Leonard > Cohen, I believe) and we finally made a deal. This will be the coolest > Christmas gift for Janis AND her daughter, Tara, (Hi Terra!) who is also a > Joniphile. (We saw the BSN Tour in May 2000 together.) Ha. My first > commissioned work of art! How patrician, n'est-ce pas? Ashleigh Kay (not > our Kay Ashley!) really got into it. Here are two messages from her. (I > asked her if it was okay to share them w/ the JMDL. She said sure, but > what does that stand for? Joni Mitchell Diehard Lovers?) I think you > will all appreciate her enthusiam for our project. > > "Hi Patti! > > I'm excited to share with you that the Joni art is finished! I really, > really enjoyed this project...more than I could've expected. I've done a > lot of studying of Joni, watching her performances, listening to her music > and looking at lots and lots of pictures. The most important thing to me > when using someone's image is for the finished piece to be reminiscent of > that person and their essence, and I've got to say, this piece is very Joni > :) There are a lot of subtleties that connect to her as well as a subtle > reference to the Blue album for you & Janis. > > I had said the piece would be somewhere around 10" in dimension, I decided > on a 9" x 12", which looks really nice, I also ended up using the picture > you sent me of her in the window smiling, as well as a couple others. I was > just so captured by her beauty, I couldn't use just one. > > All that's left is for me to wire it for hanging and take a picture of it > for my records, which I'll be doing tomorrow. And in my excitement of doing > this project, I completely forgot to get a deposit, lol! So when we meet to > make the exchange, it'll be the full $xxx. Let me know when you'd like to > meet up. Sometime next week would be good for me. Excited to show it to you! > > "> Ashleigh :) " > > Next email: > > > > "Oh I'm happy you're excited! Joni has a beautiful soul and I loved > working with her image, it was truly inspiring :) The Blue reference is > subtle, but I feel that makes it more special to those who know what it > means. > > How about this coming Tuesday the 13th? I get out of work in Manchester at > 2:30 and we could plan to meet about 3:00, and yes a check is totally fine, > if you could just make it out to my full name, Ashleigh Kay Vose, I'd > greatly appreciate it :) > > Once I get a good picture of it, I'll email it to you too :) > "> Ashleigh" > > So, I'm off to Starbucks (the same one where I heard the THREE-HOUR Joni > retrospective the day SHINE was released, September 25th, 2007 -- > Starbucks, Starbucks, you got the Joni lovin' that I like all right...) to > pick up what I'm sure will be "my favorite work of art." But now I'm > wrestling with my eeeeeego -- I'm selfish and I'm sad because I want to > keep it for myself! > > Please, this is a secret (doo wah doo) for just JMDLers and not Facebook > just at this moment of the world. > > Peace & Love, > > Patti P. > in Flip City > > P.S. "Racing away" w/ no time to proof read, so please forgive all > errors....we laugh at how our perfection will always be denied! > > > > "If everyone demanded peace instead of another television set, then > there'd be peace." > -- John Lennon > > http://www.imaginepeace.com/ > - -- "An artist can show things that other people are terrified of expressing." - ---Louise Bourgeois ------------------------------ End of JMDL Digest V2011 #725 ***************************** ------- To post messages to the list, send to joni@smoe.org. Unsubscribe by clicking here: mailto:joni-digest-request@smoe.org?body=unsubscribe -------