This weekend I enjoyed two visual feasts. First, on Friday evening I went to the opening of the new exhibit at First Presbyterian Gallery. I appreciated the paintings by Vassi Vasevski and Jordan Ivanov - two very talented artists, but I was especially entranced with the crystalline glazes on Al Martin's ceramic pieces. At first glance they are pretty pots in pleasing shapes but on closer look you see fascinating patterns where crystals have burst in the firing process (at least that's my guess) leaving subtle flower-like or organic patterns covering the surface of each piece. Yummy!
Second, last night a friend and I attended a Rod Stewart concert (yes, that Rod Stewart) at the "Palace" in Auburn Hills, north of Detroit. I don't often listen to music on cds or the radio but I love to go to live performances - I like to see my music - and this performance was amazing. The music, of course, was excellent, his voice is still crazy good, and he has a bevy of excellent back-up talent. But the visual feast for me was the back ground patterns, colors, pictures and special effects and the costuming which progressed through the show from dresses and suits reminiscent of performers in the sixties and seventies to much more current, edgy looks. And of course watching RS perform was no hardship either. It was a delicious fun time.
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