Logistics and Acquisitions

In her role as a caretaker, my Birmingham niece identifies herself as Logistics and her sister as Acquisitions. But in her role as my niece, she is definitely Acquisitions, and I happily get to be Logistics as I integrate her gifts into my collections. This year, when she came for our January Christmas celebration, she brought me a wooden mushroom with a “live edge,” and of course, I knew right where it belonged.

She also brought me a ceramic piece with a sun image that she bought at the Day of the Dead celebration in Birmingham from an artist named Lee Ann (@laclayworks on Instagram) that my niece originally met because she works at her optometrist’s office.  It immediately reminded me of another piece that was still packed away from our move (with its lack of walls, this apartment doesn’t have as much space for hanging things). And I found the perfect place for both pieces.

She also gave me two mermaid prints, and I knew they belonged in our bathroom even though it is so small.  I thought I had the perfect frame in the box of pictures that hung in our bathroom in Northampton for the larger print of a mermaid approaching a ship “Mermaid Moon” signed A. Marie (Googling tells me A. Marie is a Michigan artist named Amy Ferguson who signs her pieces A. Marie in tribute to her grandmother). The frame was one of a set, and while one held an original piece, the other just held a copy, so I evicted that one and hung the original, a drawing signed Linsey Kelch, with the new one. The small print of two mermaids in a fan from Vintage’s Salvaged Art Series made with a “very old printing block” fit perfectly as well.

It’s hard to see the pictures in the photograph, but I love them, and I’m so happy to have mermaid pictures hanging in our bathroom again.