ARVC-04
Senses=sight, with smell, touch, and emotion "Warmth" in Winter
General Description=The Target Goal/Object is a Christmas
/ New Years
greeting card circa 1987-88. The front is a painted wintery American
Indian
creek scene at Sunset (or sunrise?) along a partly frozen creek. The
entire
scene and scenery are snow and ice covered. An awesome skyscape is
done in
beautiful orange and purple, with a dash of yellow. Two TeePees are
present
in the center of the scene with the creek appearing to nestle against
the
dwellings in a crescent arc from bottom left foreground to the right
then
curving back behind the teepees. On the opposite side of the creek
is a snow
covered bluff about the same height as the tops of the teepees, tho
this is
hard to judge in the background.
Four, perhaps five, figures appear in front of the teepees but slightly
obscured by 3 trees. Two are on the left of the main teepee, the furthest
left is perhaps a visitor wearing a red full length cloak - may have
feather in hair facing left. He is being greeted by an "Elder" or chief
type wearing a headress and a blue smock or skirt. An apaloosa horse
(the
visitors?) approaches (or is standing?) on the left. Fire(s) are visible
-
one outside near the creek on the end of a stick held by the one figure
who
is alone and holding the flaming stick down towards the ground in the
direction of the creek. The fourth and possibly fifth figures are between
the meeting people and the fire holding loner. The possible fifth figure
may
be someone knealing or squating next to the fourth figure.
Possible other fires are visible against the teepees or one even perhaps
in
the second most distant teepee (seen thru its entry hole?) which is
also on
the creek side of the camp. However, upon close examination, the "fires"
_could_ be the last few leaves on the 3 trees obscuring our view of
the
scene.
In the bottom right corner of the painted card and on the opposite side
of
the creek from the camp is the artist's name and the year:
David Sanders (c)
1987.
On the inside TOP portion the card reads:
The winter wind
Howls wolfishly across the snow.
Come in, my friend,
My lodge is warm
With pine and cottonwood aglow.
Come in, my friend,
The storm clouds sweep
Across the skies of many lands,
But for awhile,
We'll banish care
With pipe and bowl in friendly hands.
On the bottom portion of the inside of the card in larger type and different
font it reads:
Peace and Good Will at Christmas
and through all the New Year
It is signed: Have a great Christmas Miles
Love,
K
On the back of the card at the very bottom are three seperate text info
areas, the middle one with a logo, they read from left to right:
Original painting by
David Sanders
Verse by Irvin Shope
LEANIN' TREE
Boulder, Colorado
[my comments: a leaning evergreen tree is placed tween LEANIN &
TREE]
2544
MADE IN USA
(c) Leanin' Tree Publ. Co.
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I got this card in 1987 or 88 from a fellow high school student whom
I had a
crush on. The card meant a lot to me then and it still has sentimental
value
and artistic interest for me as the scene and verse are both quite
moving.
Size=pocket-sized
angularity=angular
maleability=flexible
weight/heft=light
rigidity=delicate
opacity=opaque
texture=smooth
material=synthetic
familiarity=familiar
rarity=common
complexity=simple
age=used
sound=other
smell/taste=smell
body=The target is a greeting card and as such is pocket sized,
angular, yet
flexible and entirely opaque. Though all sides of the card stock are
textured it is over so slight as to seem more smooth than rough.
The card is syntheticly produced, familar to me specificly. Common in
the
sense of greeting cards are common. Uncommon in the sense that it is
better
than most, IMHO. Though it has detail it is stil a simple scene. Though
of
course, with enuf time it could be picked apart and dissected into
complexity.
The target is used as it WAS given to someone... me. Its also over ten
years
old. Sound is possibly associated with the wintery wind and the babbling
of
the brook. I said the target is something I'd want to smell; the crisp
cold
air, the smell of a camp fire, etc. Oh and the sharing of "pipe &
bowl".
