Muse in the Morning: Holiday Adornment Edition

Holiday Adornment 1

I promised the community that when I had more information about my surgery on Monday, I would share it. So I’m going to do that while also sharing some digital graphics I created the past several days intended to evoke some holiday festivity.

Maybe they’ll call forth some other emotion in you, but I have no control over that. Whenever any of us experiences art, what the viewer imagines is mostly out of the control of the artist. We can try to steer your emotions, but it’s awfully chancy. I don’t even know if you all experience the same colors I see when a piece is finished.

Anyway, I’ve been told to arrive at Hackensack University Medical Center at 6:30 am for an 8:30am surgery. I asked how long I would be in the hospital and the office assistant is under the impression that this is outpatient surgery, which is a surprise to me and freaks Debbie out a bit. But I shall try my best to keep her calm. I told her that I would not permit them to perform the wrong surgery on Monday (this group of surgeons performs lap-band operations for most of what they do, but do other stomach surgeries as well…and this guy who is operating on me is the only surgeon who has performed the procedure I am having who also takes my insurance (Oxford)).

Decoration 1

The surgery involves repairing the hole in my diaphragm (an esophageal hernia) with a plastic or metal mesh after carefully moving my stomach from my thorax back through the hole to my abdomen where it belongs.

There are possible complications, like if my stomach has decided to adhere to my left lung. The actual severity of the operation won’t be known until the surgeon starts mucking around in there.

I took a few of the graphics a bit further after first declaring to myself that they were done and called the results “decorations” rather than “adornments”. Here is one to the left. You may be able to make out the way in which Adornment 1 was transitioned into Decoration 1. But if not, that’s okay, too.

Holiday Adornment 2

I’ve done some of these graphic diaries before and people seem to have enjoyed them, so while I am waiting for my date with the surgeon on December 27 (4 days…Marau na Kerisimasi), I thought I would do a couple more. The most recent one is located here: Ten Glyphs.

From the past: Insipred by the Star Trek episode , The Children of Tama: Metaphoria.

Inspired by Native American basket weaving, I produced Basketry.

Last Christmas brought forth Ornaments.

A how to diary: Art: some stories and some how-to (with html help).

Holiday Adornment 3

And for last New Years Eve, there was New Year’s Eve Light Show. Perhaps I’ll be back in time to create pieces for a revival of that.

In this offering, I should point out that clicking on any of the graphics should open a larger version in a new tab.

And perhaps I should mention that I’m willing to sell prints of any of the pieces, either singly or as a group. It would be nice to think that a college professor of 34 years would be paid enough to live comfortably in this society, but you might be surprised. We live paycheck to paycheck just like many other people…and the time between paychecks is often too long. Normally I charge $25 for a single print, but am willing to discount that if anyone wants to purchase an entire series.

I am anything but an entrepreneur, but I have opened a store at Zazzle. Give me a shout if I am not offering what you want.

Without further ado…or verbal interruption…here are the rest of the set: