Saltworkstudio   Suzanne Edminster

Last night, I was looking through a pile of stuff on a cafe table: Jehovah's Witness Watchtowers, discarded newpaper ads, psychic services available---you know the sort of thing.  Into my hand fell a 2010 bird calender open to a flicker for December.  I guess he's supposed to be my bird pin-up guy, and he is quite handsome, I must say.  What this has to do with painting, I haven't the faintest-- but it is amazing how Whatever sorts these things out for us and plays them on the movies in our head.  What do these birds mean for my painting?  How many times must I be presented with this image?  Knock knock, who's there?

Etomology of the word flicker:
to move waveringly, flutter: to burn unsteadily... a brief movement, a tremor.. slang, a movie...an inconstant or wavering light.  That last phrase could describe the flame of art which, for many, burns unsteadily. From the Old English flikaren, to flutter.