Snowfall

GREEN

LINES IN SPACE AND TIME

MORE LINES I SEE

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.

Like Prayer Beads . . .Each Stitch

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Lest we take everything too seriously. I am feeling a bit loopy.

Camera OBSCURA?

The image projected on my wall is not backward. It IS upside down. Is it a camera obscura? Is it a camera?
It is an optical puzzle. The answer awaits.

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.

CAMERA OBSCURA

Light bounces from the sun to the snow
through the oval window in my front door
through a magnification glass onto the wall
projecting the upside down and backward image
which I photograph with a digital camera
which through software it is sent into cyberspace
via the internet to be seen with your eyes on a screen.

This light has had quite a voyage.

I Shiver

I WANNA BE

When I was a wee little girl

My burning passion was to  get up at the crack of dawn

run ouside through the squeeky screen door

jump upon the upturned zink tub

to tap dance and sing as loudly as I might

"I wanna be a cowboy's sweetheart."

When I got a wee bit older I walked by myself four miles

upon the main boulevard

to the opening of a new bank

to

see

Roy Rogers!

Upon the wall of my very red bathroom

hangs a poster

of the beautiful women of the wild west

roping cattle

from the Gene Autrey Western Heritage Museum

My favorite place is Taos, New Mexico

and

Hans Christian Andersen's

homeland of Denmark

I also love to sing "On the Good Ship lollipop"

I played hit it you get it

with the boys on the playground and WON their marbles

Now, I will tell you for sure:

I have NO idea what all of this means.

And the best/worst of me is that I own a pair of red and green Ralph Lauren Cowboy boots

I wear these every Christmas with dresses to parties

and my very best friend fought me for these and lost.

One more thing

I got my most prized possession

my first library card when I was four years old. . . then

I learned how to use a computer in the early eighties

because our new library no longer had a card catalogue.

AND I own a Kindle

When I get home THIS waits for me

JOY

TO SEE THE STARS AT NIGHT,

THE VERY SAME STARS THAT SHINE,

OVER YOU,

AND YOU,

AND YOU,

AND ALSO, YOU.

Eggs and Water and Fire

You Can Never Hold Back Spring

I bought one of these for my front yard. It is spectacular. Little tiny buds that look like purple pansies and leaves that are shaped like dark purple hearts.

Listen to Tom Waits sing you a promise.

Watch Tom Waits - You Can Never Hold Back Spring on MTVMusic.com

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.

Watch Tom Waits - Hold On on MTVMusic.com

Watch Tom Waits - Hold On on MTVMusic.com

Shadow Puppet