step through
MORNING EVENING No, it didn’t take all day to pack the art. It took 2 hours with Rhonda’s help. There it is, in the box, with a towel on top to hold it in place and a note to remember the slats of wood that suspend the piece. It feels like I’ve stepped through a […]
the dance
Can you see the bird’s nest up high in the tree to the left? (and yes, that’s snow falling…) I feel like I’m experiencing “empty nest”. Hmmmm, sounds like emptiness. Similar actually. It’s the oddest feeling that comes on when the art work is done. All this time, months and months there has been this […]
morphed
Where once there was a moon, now there is moonlight. Where once there was the moon, now there is then moonlight… It’s an incantation. However, I DID need an accent, a highlight in that area. So, I substituted a kind of line, Sadly, you really can’t see what it does for the whole piece by […]
hiding
Can you see the dog? He’s pretending that he’s a mountain. There are mountains in the background. Mountains in the art, too, right? No one can see him… Earlier today I was out throwing the ball for Rumi. He loves to retrieve. Up and down the hill. So fun. I knew it was going to […]
chemistry
What else could my art look like? One thought I had was : a pixellated computer drawing. Sort of. All those bits. But then last night I was reading Hope Jahren’s “Lab Girl” when I ran across this passage that totally caught my attention: Different minerals have different chemical formulas…. Such differences give rise to […]
pruning
THUNK! I hear this dull thud as a branch falls on my roof. It’s windy out and the woods are pruning themselves of debris – branches that just aren’t strong enough to withstand the test of this strong a breeze in the dead of winter. Or rather, the dead of the end of winter. The […]
sailing/flocking
I read in the newspaper today that the cherry blossoms are due to bloom, no peak(!), in 11 days in DC this year. That’s DC. And here? Feeling optimistic, I bought seeds for my vegetable garden. I have 4 raised beds. See them in the above photo? No? Can’t quite make them out? Maybe in […]
nasty
Today is one of those days where – if someone asked about the weather – you’d say “nasty” (that’s “nee-asty”). I ask myself: “Why is it that I live in New Hampshire?” Hmmmmm… And then I sit down to do my art and the weather is perfect: it gives me no reason to want to […]
silk/steel
What we have here is a study in black and white (mostly). Look closely. Can you see the pooch? He’s in the garden. There’s still “a bit of snow” here. Rumi was loving it: it’s been warm so it’s melted down into this brick that he can run across. He was cooling off after his […]
sad snow
You have to admit, this looks a little sad. Daffodils that I bought have wilted. Daffodils in the ground are – well, where is the darn ground? And what happened to the oh-so-white snow? Spring in New England: something to get past. It was warm yesterday. I got hopeful. But today I went for a […]
