THE MEDIUM

  several years ago my friend Gary gave me a cutting from the african violet that grows in the window above his kitchen sink........it has never gone a day without at least one cluster of beautiful purple and white blooms....... Mozart Piano Sonatas by Andreas Haefliger

  that grows up the deck wall, becomes a substantial shade "tree"......the families of hummingbirds that come each year......feast on the nectar that is produced by hundreds of trumpet-shaped flowers.....

  My collection of Bronze Buddahs is on the move........into the garden, the potted flora, the bonsai, the toilet tank tops, on top of speakers and televisions, in the workroom, on the furnace.........they just seem so relaxed and contented wherever they are...........

  that were in old boxes, are now in the aquarium.......i've been dumping all sorts of carvings, paperweights and driftwood into the large fish hotel........i suppose its the same mentality that places plastic divers with plastic treasure chests emitting air bubbles.......maybe a bit more aesthetic......the fish seem pleased with the decor....

  this mass of braided hair was one a hair corsage made of the hair of a departed civil war soldier.......it was under glass for many years......i decided to clean the corsage with compressed air....and voila! it is hair bacterium or something......it is draped across an old salt rock and a carved chinese dagger on an old mother-of-pearl inlaid table supporting the aquarium.......there's just so much work in it.....and i seldom toss art into the trash..........

Bliss by Paul Avgerinos