February, 2008
Horst's Words and Pictures Show

Pat Stewart of “Words and Pictures” presented my latest whimsical exhibit in her gallery in Brookings, Oregon. “Martians for Adults,” a collection of eighteen watercolors with associated poetry (one limerick with each painting) was an immediate success: The entire collection was sold before Art Walk night!!

At 4 pm on the spot Nina Paulsen, the house pianist, started to play all-time favorites. At 5 pm, when the bulk of the Art Walkers arrived, she was relieved by Earl Mohr, the Wizard from Gold Beach, who read from "When Elephants Last in the Dooryard Bloomed", by Ray Bradbury; and was titled "Old Mars, Then Be a Hearth to Us." What an introduction to the Martian show! Thank you, Earl.

I was happy to see among the Walkers some of our town dignitaries: Victoria Weller and Michael Fox (of Foxwell Productions); Marge Woodfin and Bill Schlichting (reporter and editor for the PILOT); Dr. Dick Edmiston with wife Barbara; Phil Pfaendler (Brookings art collector); Lynne Guild (the Limericist Queen) and Nola Range (Ambassador of Coastal Arts). All the way from Gold Beach came Ted Watkins (Gold Beach Books) and Shelly Wierzba, one of Gold Beach’s premier artrists.

When the gallery was pretty well filled to capacity, I gave a brief talk on the scientific results of my numerous trips to Mars, with special consideration of adult life on that planet. I read about a half dozen Martian limericks on top of that and saw a lot of smiles and some outright laughter. This was the best payoff for my diligent work. One of the Art Walkers, who didn’t know me, came to me afterwards and asked “Were you serious, or was this all BS?” My answer “That’s for you to decide.”

Anyway, I believe everyone had a good time, and that’s what it’s all about when it comes to my Martians. And the food was GREAT! Thank you all, you precious ladies who put the food table together.

Horst

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