to salida this morning / my 2015 ano kato exhibition in houston / by Philip Tarlow

4:47 PM: this is a photo shot on november 11, 2015 at gremillion & co. fine art in houston, where i had my ano kato exhibition.

my ano kato series is on this page:

https://www.philiptarlow.com/best-left-unsaid

now that images from above have re-entered my repetoire and are being integrated into creek images, this long time passion of mine is coming alive. in going thorough old photos, BELOW are some i came across that may find their way into new paintings.

3:55 PM: this morning i made the one hour drive to salida for a dermatology appointment. as long as i was there, i did some food shopping, picked up a pressure indicator for our well pump and got a 26x78 piece of 1/8” masonite to place under whichever of the 4 canvas i’m working on for space gallery. that will allow me to collage onto the canvas, preventing it from giving way under the pressure.

around noon, it began raining in salida, and by the time i left to return to crestone, it was coming down heavily. as i drove over poncha pass, which is at about 10,000 feet, the rain turned to heavy wet snow. but it only lasted as long as i was approaching the peak, and when i got back into our vally, the sun was shining & it warmed up to the high 50’s.

on the drive back, approaching crestone and looking north towards salida, the stormy weather i drove through is visible