{"id":15256,"date":"2015-01-28T12:44:00","date_gmt":"2015-01-28T17:44:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hame.ink\/hameblog\/2015\/01\/28\/highland-lgbt-lives\/"},"modified":"2025-09-12T07:50:36","modified_gmt":"2025-09-12T10:50:36","slug":"highland-lgbt-lives","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hame.ink\/blether\/2015\/01\/28\/highland-lgbt-lives\/","title":{"rendered":"Highland LGBT Lives"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last year, Craig and I\u00a0created pieces for an art event in Inverness, and this year it&#8217;s being remounted, but bigger, at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eden-court.co.uk\/\">Eden Court<\/a>. The &#8220;Highland LGBT Lives&#8221; exhibit will be on display throughout February as part of LGBT History Month.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>This is the piece I made last year, which will be in the show again this year (though when I look at it, I can see how my abilities have inched along since then, but I figure there&#8217;s no point re-doing it):<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-10502\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"width: 464px;height: 373px\" src=\"https:\/\/hame.ink\/blether\/wp-content\/uploads\/posts\/1449\/IMG_0068-1024x796.jpg.webp\" alt=\"IMG_0068\" width=\"780\" height=\"606\"><\/figure>\n<\/p>\n<p>Craig and I decided we should include some new work, so this is the piece I did after last weekend&#8217;s agonizing. The Bristol board turned out to be\u00a0awful to work on, though. (I thought I <em>liked<\/em> Bristol board, but now it seems hellishly bleedy.)<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<figure class=\"aligncenter wp-image-10500 size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/hame.ink\/blether\/wp-content\/uploads\/posts\/1449\/IMG_0065-622x1024.jpg.webp\" alt=\"IMG_0065\" width=\"622\" height=\"1024\"><\/figure>\n<\/p>\n<p>And I&#8217;m not sure why, but we also felt we should include some other things. I still love this wee Wick gutter-woman, which felt in keeping with the Highlands theme:<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<figure class=\"aligncenter wp-image-10501\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"width: 372px;height: 434px\" src=\"https:\/\/hame.ink\/blether\/wp-content\/uploads\/posts\/1449\/IMG_0067-856x1024.jpg.webp\" alt=\"IMG_0067\" width=\"500\" height=\"598\"><\/figure>\n<\/p>\n<p>And then I had a fish painting, except it was a mackerel, &#8217;cause mackerels are pretty. Except that in Wick they fished for <em>herring<\/em>, so that meant doing a new painting. So here&#8217;s what I came up with (a happy accident; I nearly threw it out partway through):<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-10503\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/hame.ink\/blether\/wp-content\/uploads\/posts\/1449\/silverdarling.jpg.webp\" alt=\"silverdarling\" width=\"653\" height=\"430\"><\/figure>\n<\/p>\n<p>The text is from Neil Gunn&#8217;s <em>Silver Darlings<\/em>, a beautiful novel set in this part of Scotland.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>Craig also had a fun idea for a piece we could do together, called &#8220;Out\/Not Out&#8221;, a comment on the kind of art gay men often buy for themselves, versus what they put on display when the parents come &#8217;round:<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-10497\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/hame.ink\/blether\/wp-content\/uploads\/posts\/1449\/OutNotOut.gif\" alt=\"OutNotOut\" width=\"673\" height=\"560\"><\/figure><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last year, Craig and I\u00a0created pieces for an art event in Inverness, and this year it&#8217;s being remounted, but bigger, at Eden Court. The &#8220;Highland LGBT Lives&#8221; exhibit will be on display throughout February as part of LGBT History Month. 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