Memories of 107 5th Avenue and my Mother’s encouragement to play in the Sunroom are totally responsible for this study… I was five years old and it never made sense to me that the room on the North East corner of the house was “The Sunroom”… the windows only caught the morning Sun…
Once something becomes known, emotional attachments are stretched to encompass an additional something else… within the narrow framework of the concept of Sunroom the significance of each moment spent there and understanding provides a history for us to look back upon should we have need, or occasion, to do so… memories have edges and often they are apparent and pervasive… this imagery is how I now understand the Sunroom… images are artifacts of our process… mile markers of existence…
What might
may be
if…
This is also reviewed in the Self-Portrait section…
Memories of 107 5th Avenue and my Mother’s encouragement to play in the Sunroom are totally responsible for this study… I was five years old and it never made sense to me that the room on the North East corner of the house was “The Sunroom”… the windows only caught the morning Sun…
Imaging the dog’s (dead) rabbit toy at the end of Route 64, where it intersects with 5 & 20 happened as I was in process, trying to comprehend a sunbeam as it became a totem like structure of some substance until one got close… sort of like the pot of gold at the end of the rainbow… like the dog’s toy which was probably loved to death each day and then invisible as the dog moved on…
Once something becomes known, emotional attachments are stretched to encompass an additional something else… within the narrow framework of the concept of Sunroom the significance of each moment spent there and understanding provides a history for us to look back upon should we have need, or occasion, to do so… memories have edges and often they are apparent and pervasive… this imagery is how I now understand the Sunroom… these images were immediately artifacts of our process… mile markers of existence…
What might
may be
if…
John Kosboth, circa 1963