--- Les Irvin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Joniphiles - > > The "Joni Mitchell's Beside Herself" fund is for > real! An actual committee > is underway to raise funds for a Joni statue in > Saskatoon. The committee > consists of:
[...] > >If anyone on the list can help with artwork, > specifically the drawing of > >the bench with her sitting on it, that would be > fantastic. > > Artists! We need your help. Please send ideas and > sketches to > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>. Your sketch could be the > one to end up on the > poster. I love the idea of those statues that are combined with benches, or whatever. There's one outside the Hospital for Sick Children in Toronto and I tried to find a picture of it on their website, but wasn't able to. It's made of bronze (I guess it's bronze) and it is in the form of a bench with a couple of mothers (maybe a father too, I don't remember). They're just sitting on this bench and they look like they're just yakkin' to one another. One of them is breastfeeding her baby (this caused a few outcries in Toronto the good - the very idea!) Anyway, it's a neat idea. You can sit on this bench beside these bronze women or in between them even. This is kind of what I see as a good idea for a Joni statue. Unfortunately I'm no artist. I'm sure there are statues of this kind in lots of places and this has always struck me as a more useful kind of statue than the usual guy standing on a pedestal looking noble. There are quite a few artists on this list, n'est-ce pas? Wouldn't it be something if one of our own jmdlers won this commission? and thanks to Joni for the idea, of course. ===== Catherine Toronto ______________________________________________________________________ Post your free ad now! http://personals.yahoo.ca
