Conversation with My Wife (73)

“Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time.” — Thomas Merton

Prompted by:

Day 15 Of A Photo A Day For 30 Days Series

Thanks, alto!

When Deb & I consolidated households after we got married, we merged artwork collections. Mine are like this:

Artwork by Robert Tinney, based on one of his BYTE covers and inspired by the M. C. Escher drawing “Drawing Hands”.

Deb’s are more like this:

Woodblock print by the artist daughter of a friend of Deb’s from back in the 1970s. It hung in the office of Deb’s father (a Presbyterian pastor) for many years, then moved to Deb’s home after Dad retired and downsized.

ME: Okay, this is…?

DEB: Jesus and the twelve disciples.

ME: Oh! Okay. (moving on, when it suddenly occurs to me) Wait! (counts) I think it’s Jesus and the EIGHT disciples. Who are either bandits or raccoons?

DEB: No, there are twelve. You just have to look right.

Years of “Where’s Waldo?” have not helped. No striped shirts, for one thing.

ME: Hints?

DEB: They’re in profile. (Huh?) Behind Jesus and Judas and another disciple.

ME: I think the artist just drew nine faces, ran out of room, added four noses and called it a day.

Conversations with My Wife (collection)