{"id":38335,"date":"2021-05-07T21:15:44","date_gmt":"2021-05-08T04:15:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/?p=38335"},"modified":"2021-05-13T20:42:05","modified_gmt":"2021-05-14T03:42:05","slug":"girls-like-farkles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/2021\/05\/07\/girls-like-farkles\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;girls like farkles&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/2021\/05\/07\/girls-like-farkles\/mom1\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-38337\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-38337\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/mom1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"584\" height=\"700\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"border: none;\" src=\"\/\/html5-player.libsyn.com\/embed\/episode\/id\/19027871\/height\/26\/theme\/standard-mini\/thumbnail\/no\/direction\/backward\/\" width=\"100%\" height=\"26\" scrolling=\"no\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>This collage is part of a series I did featuring female artists who inspire me. The woman in this piece was the first artist I ever met&#8230; on the day I was born! From the time I was little, my mom, aka watercolor artist Judi Cumming, was cold hard proof that being an artist was possible. Throughout my childhood, she painted and showed her work a lot &#8211; then she stopped, and I was never really sure why. Well, we get into all of that and more. Our family always jokes that my mom is operating on a different cosmic plane than most of us, and after you hear her insightful thoughts today, I&#8217;m pretty sure you&#8217;ll agree.<\/p>\n<p>Now, not only is <em>my<\/em> mom on the podcast, but in order to keep the &#8220;Mother&#8217;s Day&#8221; theme going, the boy who made <em>me<\/em> a mom is showing up for the Not-So-Speedy Speed Round! Yep, I convinced 14 year old Charlie to come on for a few minutes. Listen right up there under my mama wrestling with a blossom, or subscribe on <a href=\"https:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/podcast\/jealous-curator-art-for-your\/id996338562\">Apple Podcasts<\/a>\u00a0and\/or\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/show\/2ELjX4nIVWpI3XMNW139WN\">Spotify.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>First up, a peek at some of the work she was showing in the early &#8217;70s when I was just a teeny tiny baby:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/2021\/05\/07\/girls-like-farkles\/mom2\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-38338\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-38338\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/mom2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"584\" height=\"1776\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/mom2.jpg 584w, https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/mom2-505x1536.jpg 505w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 584px) 100vw, 584px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Thank goodness for Delphine pushing my mom to keep creating. Ah yes, there&#8217;s nothing like a deadline to motivate an artist!<\/p>\n<p>Next, here&#8217;s one of the pieces from the &#8220;In Tandem&#8221; series she did with her calligrapher friend Susan <em>{I own this one}<\/em>:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/2021\/05\/07\/girls-like-farkles\/mom3\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-38339\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-38339\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/mom3.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"584\" height=\"2215\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/mom3.jpg 584w, https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/mom3-405x1536.jpg 405w, https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/mom3-540x2048.jpg 540w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 584px) 100vw, 584px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Yep, there it is in my living room!<\/p>\n<p>So, we talked a little bit about my mom finding her way to walking when she experienced that bout of overwhelming anxiety. While she started out &#8216;learning to walk a 10k&#8217;, she eventually turned this therapy into two epic journey&#8217;s in France and Spain! Here she is walking the El Camino trail <em>{I think this photo is in France?}<\/em>, and a few of her watercolor paintings that were inspired by bits and pieces along the trail:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/2021\/05\/07\/girls-like-farkles\/mom4\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-38340\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-38340\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/mom4.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"584\" height=\"2310\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/mom4.jpg 584w, https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/mom4-388x1536.jpg 388w, https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/mom4-518x2048.jpg 518w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 584px) 100vw, 584px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>Sigh.<\/em> Lovely.<\/p>\n<p>So, as you can see, she knows what she&#8217;s doing with watercolors. When she came to visit us last summer, we headed down to my studio to make a couple of pieces together. She did the painting, and I added my tiny cut out people&#8230; now they get to wander around in these washy, dreamlike worlds:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/2021\/05\/07\/girls-like-farkles\/mom5\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-38341\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-38341\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/mom5-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"584\" height=\"3673\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/mom5-scaled.jpg 407w, https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/mom5-244x1536.jpg 244w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 584px) 100vw, 584px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I wish I got to walk around in there! <em>Ah,<\/em> that was so much fun&#8230; we even broke out some straws and blew the ink around like we did when I was little.<\/p>\n<p>Okay, time to crack open the family albums! Me as a newborn, Charlie as a newborn <em>{with baby Murph, too}<\/em>, and Charlie&#8217;s first Mother&#8217;s Day with his Mommy &amp; Nana:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/2021\/05\/07\/girls-like-farkles\/mom6\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-38342\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-38342\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/mom6.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"584\" height=\"1421\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>Awwww!<\/em> They&#8217;re all so cute. Thanks so much to my mom, Judi, and my NBA-bound son, Charlie for doing this special family episode with me. And, as always, thank YOU so much for listening. There will be more ART FOR YOUR EAR next weekend.<\/p>\n<p><em>Other links:<\/em><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.co-loop.co\/podcasts\"><em>Coloop Podcast Network<\/em><\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/followthecamino.com\/en\/camino-de-santiago-routes\/\"><em>El Camino Trail<\/em><\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Ogopogo\"><em>The Ogopogo\u00a0<\/em><\/a><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This collage is part of a series I did featuring female artists who inspire me. The woman in this piece was the first artist I ever met&#8230; on the day I was born! 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