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100 Words and a Picture


There are many untold stories behind the art that hangs in our gallery.

I would say, equally as interesting as the art itself.


How about telling your story, its easy and people want to hear it.

100 WORDS AND A PICTURE – share something about yourself on LAA’s Blog
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  • Member Statement/Profile: A little something about yourself and what inspires you to do art
  • ArtWork Story: Your process, the experience, or the deeper meaning behind a select piece of your art
  • Literary Art: Write prose or poetry that interprets or reflects a piece of your artwork

Don't wait to be asked: Send your submission by email to: info@lafayetteart.org

Our Camp: Barry Sons

6/29/2021

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Picture

Our Camp


It sat on a barge of three inch planks, painted red led, solid as a tank.
 
Papas’ house is what it was; the curved roof house on the big red barge.
 
In it he was quite content, so from November to March was spent.
 
Setting traps, running lines, breaking ice in bitter cold. Skinning
 
Tearing hides off carcasses, popping dry and stretching pelts.

Sometimes hides drying over our beds when he didn’t build a drying shed.
 
Waking to the smell of biscuits, myrtle burning in the stove.
 
Throwing Mud balls at my sisters, running Lollie when it wasn’t
 
cold. Exploring bayous in pirogues. That’s how I spent my winters in
 
 the curved roof-house on the big red barge.

Barry Sons
barrylsons@gmail.com
www.barrysonsart.com
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  • Home
  • About LAA
    • LAA Charter and Bylaws
    • Current Membership
    • Officers & Board
    • Gallery Exhibits/Venues
    • Artists in Residence
    • Rules/ Competitions >
      • Submission Rules
      • Art Analysis/ Judging
      • Tutorials/ Art Criticism >
        • Visual Elements
        • Design Principles
        • Compositional Elements
        • Interpretive Theories
        • Sculpture
    • Gift Shop
  • News/Events
    • Newsletters
    • Membership Meetings
    • Main Gallery Events
    • Ongoing Classes
    • L'esprit du Métal
    • Watercolor Guild
  • Join
  • Member Portal
    • Member Login
    • Gallery Sitting Signup
  • Explorations
    • Member Websites
    • Gallery Exhibits >
      • Spring 2020 Exhibit
      • Eye of the Beholder 2020
      • 2020 Member Show
    • Member Art >
      • Theme "Red"
      • Theme "Circle"
      • Theme "Reflection"
      • Theme "Three"
      • Theme "Pattern"
      • Theme "Bugs"
      • Theme "Time"
      • Theme "SPACE"
      • Theme "PATRIOTIC"
      • Theme "PALS"
      • Theme "Self"
    • Web Links
    • Tutorials
  • Donate
  • LAABlog