Some Simplicity/Spring Cleaning

Clutter is a sign of the end of winter

The freshness of Spring Clean 

Interior longings

Expressed

The buds of leaves on the trees

Promises

Time moves forward

To make room

For days lasting long enough

without procrastination

It is here

Excuse The Mess



Yesterday, I decided to clean my fiber studio. After I tore through
the place to turn it all upside down, I wanted to turn around to walk out.
So , I got my camera and decided to record the mess I made to remind
myself to look up from the six square inches I tend to gaze at, always,
no matter what I am doing.

Computer screens

sewing machines

painting

reading

photographing
. . .
So, here I am, again,

I just finished one big piece and am ready to begin . . .
The King's X #3

As soon as

I finish cleaning and organizing.



Saturday ~ This Marks The Spot

Looking for Repetition Today

Found This Instead

Delightful

Serendipity

Indigo Dye?

Chain Link Fence

Against the sky

It Is

Friday Folly







A Little Pepper, Anyone?



Today



"Poetry is just the evidence of life. If your life is burning well, poetry is just the ash."

Leonard Cohen



Falling

Falling into reverie

Between the spaces

To be. . .

Realization

Realization
Comes
with. .  .
Contemplation

Composure

Discovery

"X.4 Laughable error and profound discovery are born of the same freedom."

Robert Grudin - Time and the Art of Living

GREEN

I SEE SO MANY LINES

Lines In My Space

On Yet another snowy day my thoughts have silence to

surround them while I work and ponder the wonder of it all.



 

OTTO RANK - ART AND ARTIST - CREATIVE URGE AND PERSONALITY DEVELOPMENT

This is how I mark my place.

Camera Obscura Part TWO

The photo top left is enhanced for contrast,
whereas, the other three are not enhanced.
These images are close-ups of the image on
the wall. I opened the curtain a slight bit today
to see if the image would change as far as the
light was concerned.The lamp is obviously
upside down which is how it is on the wall.
I first became interested in this amazing sight when I lived in San Francisco area. My friend Tracy Hicks a wonderful photographer came to visit and asked to use my garage as a temporary photo studio to do a shoot for Susan Green who does amazing beaded jewelry. While we were in the middle of the session a light blue volkswagen magically appeared on the wall. There was a pinpoint of light coming through the garage door. The volkswagen belonged to my 16 year old daughter. The image was, of course, upside down and backward. I never thought I would see this again.

The funny thing about this new event is that it is because of the magnifying glass I was using on my lamp when I was doing some close up drawings with tiny details that I happened to notice the wall. I moved the glass and the image went away. Normally, you would see a life size image of whatever is projected but because of the magnification, like all else, it is the opposite. It is therefore, tiny. The aperture is the window in the door. And it is large, so normally this would not be a camera obscura. Click on the photo to see a close-up larger image.

Eggs and Water and Fire

Shadow of A Video to Come

Do you ever feel that you have hit the wall?

A jogging term for when you are stopped

in your tracks,
When nothing goes the way it is intended,
When circumstances are beyond control,
When you feel like no one on this earth,

Knows you are there?
Do you ever have a hole,
Inside that can not be filled?
My Dad used to tell me, at times like this,

Just sit on your hands.

Now, what the heck does that mean?
My mom says to just sit and spin.

No wonder I am dizzy.

My daughter moved far, far, away.

Hence, the hole.

So, I work, and work.

I doodle and dream.

Sometimes, I just scream.

But mostly, I focus on teaching.

We are going to do a puppet show.
A shadow puppet show. Banjo music.
Queen Anne's Lace, Red bud trees,

Signs that spring WILL come, again.

Shadow Puppet

Red Tuesday