Scrumptious Bagels, Fresh Roasted Coffee and Art to Go at Bagel Mainea in Augusta ~ Nourishment for body and soul!

You haven't lived until your try Marianne Butak's breakfast sandwich on lightly toasted garlic bagel and fresh roasted hazelnut coffee at Bagel Mainea on Western Avenue in Augusta. While you're there munching and sipping in her relaxing sunroom, please enjoy a provocative new mixed media exhibition called "Pentimento" by Maine artist Mary Becker Weiss. Nourishment for body and soul ~ it doesn't get better!


"Pentimento Series" ©2011 Mary Becker Weiss

"Old paint on canvas, as it ages, sometimes becomes transparent. When that happens, it is possible, in some pictures, to see the original lines: a tree will show through a woman's dress, a child makes way for a dog, a large boat is no longer on an open sea. That is called pentimento, because the painter 'repented,' changed his mind. Perhaps it would be as well to say that the old conception, replaced by a later choice, is a way of seeing and then seeing again." ~ From Lillian Hellman's Pentimento A Book of Portraits