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Gondola Art Stroll #6
The Mountain Top,
a 1970’s road trip
by Kent Youngstrom & his overly descriptive brain
Gondola Artwork
based on the sand lot + changed to a ski hill and a road trip in the late 1970’s, kent youngstrom and his family head west to discover adventure and find out what happens when you got’t give up on wanting a full life.
netflix is looking into making the trip a new streaming series.
the trip includes a two day drive in the 1972 golden station wagon, we dubbed – brownie, which was a horrible name, but also a relatively horrible vehicle to drive across country in.
my mother is a photographer for a national advertisers, my father a religious writer. traveling with us is my sister angie and by brothers darren and jeff.
our suitcases are full of plaid pants, patterned ski wear and my dad’s favorite rosingol head band. our jackets have ski passes and stories to tell. mom and dad packed going out clothes, while the kids just tossed in what they could.
mom ended up photographing the new lifts and gondolas for the resort, and a few families hired her right on the slopes for family pictures. it was an adventure we will always have memories and stories to tell.
so many stories.
items were collected from ebay, etsy and in salt lake city at the village vintage.
gallery coming soon…
Meet Kent
artists’ shticks generally suck.
most likely, they’ll list a bunch of niche achievements you won’t recognize, name drop in a bumptious kind of way, and use really cryptic words, all in the name of their mysterious aesthetic.
i don’t like how they all follow that pattern.
so, anyway, joanna gaines has my painting on her wall and totally featured me in her mag. i also paint origials for cb2, and lulu + georgia. also, also i was voted best artist to hang out with in a converted barn in the kamas valley, which is this totally real thing that i for sure did not make up.
i’m kent, and i am on a mission to remind you of the unexpected and beautiful moments of life, while you glance at the walls of your home, your office, or even your secret lair.
i believe that art tells the best stories
in the most primal way, we humans seek connection. belonging. understanding. we each want to mean something to someone, to be heard, seen, pinned against the wall with vibrancy and life.
art, then, is an intimate form of storytelling – brushstrokes splaying memoirs across a canvas, texture and paint uniting fragments of the past with hope for the future.
i paint to pull you closer,
to breathe life into love lost,
to champion the underdog,
to find out what happens when you don’t give up.
