Opus Memoriae MMXVII

2017 was a great year. I picked 12 important events and made them into the Memory Painting for 2017. The Fellas dug on watching it go from blank canvas to complete and they painted some blocks of their own on some mini-canvasses (canvassae?). As I started each block we talked about how much fun we had doing everything from our summer-long quest to fine the best pie to our dinner conversation that “we should go to Sea World” after which we found ourselves on the road 45 minutes later as part of a lesson in the unique joy of spontaneity. I look at individual blocks and bristle at the imprecision (and poor display of talent), but I like the overall painting and the persistent reminder of how good 2017 was.