2009 or 1959?

Planting winter rye with the 1950 Ferguson.


A late summer tradition on our farm, planting long-stem winter
rye with Dan's vintage tractor and implements.
(Prints available via http://www.mamapear.etsy.com .)

"Raw Honey", recent gouache paintings

These paintings are 12" x 17".
(Paintings for sale at http://www.mamapear.etsy.com .)

Ideas forming on our walls

hive-y forms (sewing pattern paper) and color sketches/prints

some of the vintage Marimekko fabric/colors that inspire

"More Abundance" painting/print complete

(Sewing pattern paper, acrylic paint, block printed ink, gel medium.
For sale at http://www.mamapear.etsy.com .)

This painting was inspired by an appreciation
for my childhood on a sheep farm... and a
response to the pressures to do and have more
rather than appreciating the simple abundance
of life.

to see more of my larger paintings and sculptures
go to:
www.project39.blogspot.com

It is acrylic paint and block ink on a 2-ply
translucent sewing pattern paper surface,
tacked to the wall (the top is reinforced by
a strip of fabric on the back). Over the course
of 6 years, I have developed a system of
strengthening sewing patter paper (glue &
gel medium) and then painting/printing onto
the surface.

From the Inside, Looking Out, Part 2

"From the Inside Looking Out" gouache painting series,
12.5" x 16" maple frame with glass, $75. (Unframed
gouache paintings from this series available at
http://www.mamapear.etsy.com .)

I will take commissions of particular colors and sizes.
Contact Tiffany, 218-371-5457 or besonens@wcta.net.

From the Inside, Looking Out

"From the Inside, Looking Out" series of the gouache paintings,
12" x 15.5", wrapped in shrink-wrap with foam core board,
$55 each. (More gouache paintings from this series available at
http://www.mamapear.etsy.com .)

Bees are dying
.
faster than they can replace themselves
and so are my excuses
for losing the map home.
.
The first memory of that place,
and all its nectars
are in a blurry path back to
.
Finnish raspy words buzzing above
the drone of the hive
Grandma Helen is clearly the queen
as we hover around her.
.
In the sticky sun, our daughters hang on
as my mom reads aloud on the throne
the map faintly appears on my face
I look away,

stung.

LouAnn Shepard Muhm & Tiffany Besonen
(poetry-tag collaboration)

MAMA PEAR IN SMALL MAGAZINE!

(Girls 5/6, $50 on http://www.mamapear.etsy.com/)

The Summer edition of Small Magazine just came out
and the Mama Pear "Floral Scallops" dress made with
1950's tablecloth fabric is featured:
http://www.smallmagazine.net/issue.asp?issue=11&page=110
(Photo shoot styled by Valerie Magnum, photographed by Nick Prendergast.)

Summertime is when Mama Pear is the most juicy, fresh and sweet!
Come see us at the Shady Hallow Flea Market on highway 59 south
of Detroit Lakes on Sundays this summer. Look for the white shoppe in the first row, with the sunflower above the door. For location and dates go to:
http://shadyhollowmarket.blogspot.com/

Mama Pear stuff that you may find at the flea market:

1. girls dresses & aprons
2. totes/bags made from vintage fabrics
3. adult bistro aprons from vintage fabrics
4. pennant buntings hanging from the ceilings
5. small paintings... if I ever get them done.
6. loose barnboard and stuff made from it
7. rusty farm junk
8. old frames, doors, windows and other vintage items
9. smiling summer-tanned faces!

Dovetailed log sauna, Norway Pine

with a fieldstone base, 10' x 12'

I constructed this with my great great grandfather's

century-old tools. - d (Can be custom ordered.)

.

Dovetailed hewn log wall with fieldstone base,
82"x 72"x 50"h

.
These log walls can be used as interior walls and
dividers or as exterior landscaping elements.
The fieldstones are found on our land, the logs are
hewn tamarack found dead and free standing in
our swamp, & the dovetailed corner is constructed
with my great greatgrandfather's century-old

tools. - d (Can be custom ordered.)

.

Carved basswood basins,

12"x 12"x 32"h & 12"x 12"x 24"

.

The carved basswood basin forms are my "nests".

They can be used in or outdoors, alone or holding

fruit or a collection of stones. - t

.

Detail above contains "Mother Pear" sculpture,

sewing pattern paper, wire, beeswax. See more

sculptures and paintings at

www.mnartists.org/work.do?action=list&rid=32857

and

http://www.project39.blogspot.com/