After the hottest August ever

"Group at Sunset'' (giclee print), by Penelope Jencks, in her group show with Peter Watts and Selina Trieff at the Berta Walker Gallery, Wellfleet, Mass., through Sept. 19.

Giants from childhood

 

Sculpture by PENELOPE JENCKS, at Berta Walker Gallery, Provincetown.

She has been creating oversized sculptures that depict naked adults who are  middle aged and older.  The gallery says her idea is for the figures "to have the same relationship to the viewer as her own parents and  parents' friends did to her when  she was a child.''

That reminds me: I was a party on a porch in South Dartmouth, Mass., the other day. I  was much enjoying talking with all these interesting old people. Then I remembered, with a start, that they're my contemporaries.

The old cliche about having young children came to mind: "the days are long and the years are short.''