Loved the hat tip to Eleanor Anstruther's 8 Questions and your answers captured what Two Houses | Two Painters | Two Parents is all about. The "aboutness" makes me interested in reading your memoir (when it's finished).
And Rona Maynard's piece today about her father, Max, also an artist, seems in conversation with what I've read here. So glad to have found your writing on Substack.
This is the first week in 69 that I am taking a holiday haitus from posting and I'm enjoying the time spent reading instead. I enjoy reading good writing and both of you always offer up something compelling.
Ack! I’m sorry I didn’t see this sooner! I’ve been behind on reading while out of town for the holidays. But also I’m an Olsen, not Oleson, so didn’t get a notification. 😁 (you and I share the many ways there are to spell these patronymics!)
Anyway, thank you for the mention. I agree with so much of this about Substack.
Coincidentally, I just had my own first IRL meeting with a substack friend, meeting Rona Maynard in Toronto on my road trip. I’ll write more about that as I dig out but I am glad you’re getting to Lisbon and meeting the new friend! It’s an amazing way to travel as well as to put people and contexts together. This is an integration project in so many ways, isn’t it??
Happiest of new years to you and yours— maybe we too will meet in person some day. Lmk when you’re in NYC….
So sorry for the misspell! I can't believe that happened because I wasn't going from memory, but effort. OY. However! I did have the right link, so you should have had a ping... And, yes, let's meet up one of these days...
Eliza, I'm reading this late because of recent chaos, but I really like your use of this format. I especially loved this:
"Their divorce cut me in two because I loved them both, and they wanted nothing to do with each other. Writing here, I stitch myself whole; I put their lives and paintings side by side in front of a readership that includes people from their lives and art careers."
What this helps me see is the heartbreaking constellation of characters: Lennart, Mimi, Lennart's Eliza, Mimi's Eliza, and Eliza's Eliza. Families are so damnably complex!
I am really looking forward to your visit to Lisbon! ❤️
Loved the hat tip to Eleanor Anstruther's 8 Questions and your answers captured what Two Houses | Two Painters | Two Parents is all about. The "aboutness" makes me interested in reading your memoir (when it's finished).
And Rona Maynard's piece today about her father, Max, also an artist, seems in conversation with what I've read here. So glad to have found your writing on Substack.
Thank you, Jill. Rona's post was on my agenda to read today. Now, I'll be sure to get to it.
This is the first week in 69 that I am taking a holiday haitus from posting and I'm enjoying the time spent reading instead. I enjoy reading good writing and both of you always offer up something compelling.
Ack! I’m sorry I didn’t see this sooner! I’ve been behind on reading while out of town for the holidays. But also I’m an Olsen, not Oleson, so didn’t get a notification. 😁 (you and I share the many ways there are to spell these patronymics!)
Anyway, thank you for the mention. I agree with so much of this about Substack.
Coincidentally, I just had my own first IRL meeting with a substack friend, meeting Rona Maynard in Toronto on my road trip. I’ll write more about that as I dig out but I am glad you’re getting to Lisbon and meeting the new friend! It’s an amazing way to travel as well as to put people and contexts together. This is an integration project in so many ways, isn’t it??
Happiest of new years to you and yours— maybe we too will meet in person some day. Lmk when you’re in NYC….
So sorry for the misspell! I can't believe that happened because I wasn't going from memory, but effort. OY. However! I did have the right link, so you should have had a ping... And, yes, let's meet up one of these days...
Eliza, I'm reading this late because of recent chaos, but I really like your use of this format. I especially loved this:
"Their divorce cut me in two because I loved them both, and they wanted nothing to do with each other. Writing here, I stitch myself whole; I put their lives and paintings side by side in front of a readership that includes people from their lives and art careers."
What this helps me see is the heartbreaking constellation of characters: Lennart, Mimi, Lennart's Eliza, Mimi's Eliza, and Eliza's Eliza. Families are so damnably complex!
I am really looking forward to your visit to Lisbon! ❤️
Thanks Gregory. Me too! May the chaos quiet.. And thank you for this observation
Enthralled by your answers, as I continue to be by each installment! Keep on...
Thank you, Amy
Very nice read. Thank you for sharing this background to your Substack.
Thank you, Liza
Nicely done, Eliza!
Thank you, Wendy
This was so interesting, Eliza! I have considered a sub stack for a while now. Not sure I will ever get there, but it’s nice to see behind the scenes.
Becca.. you’ve gotta listen to Eleanor read Fallout. ☺️