Monday, June 27, 2022: Springfield Thunderbirds Street Party
by ag
Scenes from a street party last Saturday celebrating the appearance of Springfield’s professional minor-league hockey team, the Springfield Thunderbirds, in the Calder Cup finals. At stake was the championship of the American Hockey League, which the home team lost to the great disappointment of fans.
[FULL DISCLOSURE:] Ice hockey is one of my least favorite sports, ranking right up there with bull fighting, boxing, professional wrestling, and hunting. Still, I couldn’t resist the photo possibilities of an event like this. (Click on images to enlarge.)
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These are stunning! You take the typical, even mundane, and make it momentous.
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Thanks Deena. Going in a painterly direction gives me a new appreciation for what artists do — the way color, form, line, etc., when freed of the need to depict reality as we see it, can be more emotive.
Bruce Landon Way has probably never looked so colorful :)
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Glad you couldn’t resist – the first image is so very striking. It’s doing just what you describe in your reply above.
Speaking of abstracting reality, I’m reading a great book called ”The Loft Generation’ by Edith Schloss, a painter/writer who lived with Rudy Burckhardt and hobnobbed with many interesting people in the 40s & 50s – de Kooning, Cage, Ginsberg, Twombly – it goes on and on. It’s not just empty gossip – she can write. :-)
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Thanks Lynn. Your thoughtful comments are always appreciated.
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