My Homage to Picasso
Nu au fauteuil noir

By Charlotte Wilson
 

The Gerbert Report

Rhymes with the Colbert Report, but not quite as funny. Who was Gerbert - Born as Gerbert d'Aurillac, in France in 946, in a time before anyone had a last name.

As a teenager, he went to Spain for his education. He heard that only the Arabs had the key to mathematics - the numbers we use today - so he snuck out at night to learn from these scholars. Then he took modern math back to the rest of Europe.

Gerbert was a mathematician, astronomer, inventor and musician, and he led an adventurous life political intrigue and technological development. As if to celebrate his life, in 999 they made him the Pope.

What can he do now for us? Report on seemingly extraneous, occasionally funny, sometimes strange pieces of news and information.

* Last month, I asked if anyone recognized the codename "Vigorous." It turns out the word is "Vigorate," and the name of someone sending emails to 12 people in the new energy movement. Vigorate speaks with authority, but not in the same style as "Anonymous" in the "Dirty Tricks" posting in the center column…part of the adventure is trying to accurately name the players. Fiction is out, I favor true mystery.



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My Homage to Picasso "Nu au fauteuil noir" by Charlotte Wilson
Inception of Thought
Inception of Thought
Inception of Thought
Inception of Thought
     
A few words about “Inception of Thought” - the composition and colors of this work came to me in a dream, actually more of a vision because I wasn’t asleep. It was dark and suddenly, there was brilliant color. There are shades of “ink” and the light blue you see was/is on the verge of violet. I use Liquitex acrylics, and praise them for their Indanthrene Blue, Light Blue Violet, and my old standby, Payne’s Gray. I painted it from one particular perspective, but upon completion, people kept turning it around. Now, I do too; I love the rotation aspect. It seems to say something different from every side.

With dimensions of 36” by 48,” you definitely see it coming from a distance, but I sit at a desk and look right into it - very close, very personal, only two feet away. In the black of night, the blues were moving, like you see them on the canvas. I took it to be the absolute beginning of “thought.” Small jewels of thinking, growing into great movements of creative energy - waves of pure thought, no beginning or end, but always there…always in motion.

Charlotte Wilson

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