Georgia on my mind
Driving home from a visit to Texas, the landscape through New Mexico and Utah made me think of Georgia O'Keeffe's landscapes. I snapped a few pictures through the car windows and made a note to explore her art with the kids when we got home. I love Georgia's work; I had posters of her flowers on my dorm walls in college. Naturally, my kids aren't incredibly impressed, which is fine. It's ok to dislike an artist and still study them or learn about them. I went over a few of her most famous paintings - flowers, music, clouds. It's interesting to me how innocuous those topics sound, and how controversial her images of these innocent images were in their time. I know I felt naughty posting them, and having read more about Georgia's thoughts on people's interpretation of her work, she wouldn't have been pleased. When I tried to explain this to the kids, I went for straight up honesty - people in the Western world are uncomfortable with sex and sexu...