We spend our whole lives trying to be happy.
It’s even written into our constitution as something we ought to continually pursue, but in Lexington artist Blake Snyder Eames’s paint and vinyl mural-in-progress, she reminds us that intense joy is something that can beexperienced for free, in the simplest manner, and in a matter of a few seconds.
“Stop and smell the roses,” the saying goes, but a better idiom might be, “stop and wish on the dandelions.”
Eames’ mural, The Giant Look Book of Exploding Dandelions, is designed to capture the brief but potent moment of joy and delight she regularly witnesses while watching children pick dandelions and blow their fluffy wishes to the wind.
Eames is the first of five artists to begin her work transforming the Loudoun House for LAL’s large-scale installation exhibition, SITE, opening Friday, May 24, 6-9 p.m.
Since she is the only local artist in the exhibition, and since she has to paint a huge mural in our expansive hallway, we let her get a head start over the weekend.
Here she is in “mad scientist mode” on Sunday afternoon as she eyes a table full of paint buckets.
You can catch a live steam of Blake’s installation at http://www.ustream.tv/channel/lexingtonartleague and learn more about her work at http://blakeeamesdesign.com.
Feel free to come by the Loudoun House during gallery hours (weekdays, 10-4) to watch the installation live in person. SITE opens Friday, May 24 from 6-9 p.m.