About a month ago, I went to the Philadelphia Museum of Art where I saw my first ever Jasper Johns — Painting with Two Balls to be specific. What can I say?
I loved it!
And strangely, it gave me a huge appetite for foods I never really eat. Perhaps it reminded me of the lost boys’ imaginary meal in Hook? I don’t know. What I do know is I desperately wanted to have lunch with this painting, an impossibility. And I also knew that I wanted to make it into a card, which is very possible.
Here is the view from the inside:
and what can I say, I love a secret pocket. I simply couldn’t resist.
I decided to put another piece of art that I’d recently encountered inside the pocket — Paul Klee’s A Guardian Angel Serves a Small Breakfast. I’m not an art historian. I doubt these two works are connected ( but you could ask Adam Zucker of
https://theartsandeducation.wordpress.com ) For me they go together because they make me hungry for different things, they let me imagine another version of myself and the world. I thought to myself that I would love to be an actual angel of breakfast, and I remembered that at times in the past, I have been. In the future, maybe I will again.
