It's amazing what a coffee break can do.

Just to catch up on this week's events, the first docent meeting of the fall season was on Tuesday. Great cookies btw. We will be touring an exciting new exhibit, Massive Change, curated by Bruce Mau. I was going to bow out this fall, and focus on work, but I really don't want to miss out on this one. The training alone will be incredible, the focus on new design will be invaluable. Next week we will start meeting with the team that brought the exhibit together.

We also had another tour around the Emily Carr exhibit with the curator from Surrey Art Gallery. I am still in love with Carr's work, her departure into the forest is just lovely. The way she approaches the tree definately echoes the work of Lauren Harris, but there is an immensity, I think that she gets from her cubist studies, the size and shape of the trees, the intensity of color, a sort of billowing comfort that you feel when you look at her forests. I am interested in finding this book, by Ralph Pearson, How to See Modern Pictures, as this informed the way she shaped her paintings.