back in hotel

 Spent the day with her.

Drove through amazing beauty on my way here.  Highway 6 especially breathtaking.

The rocks that lined the road were pink and burgundy, the trees were yellow, orange, violet, red, dark green, the sky was smoky grey, and breathed into the tree tops, the glimpses of water were mirrors.  

Worry Last

Using my work as a way to not worry.  

Don’t worry first.  Worry last.  

Make work.  Make more work.  Then worry about if and how they fit together.  

the cloud within me

A path that is more about all the days of my life that I’ve stepped around and through, all the hurdles and the burdens, all the joys and unexpected visions of my life.  2016 journal
 

Art Fabric

Where this future will take our artists can not be forecast.  They belong in the mainstream of modern art.  It’s wholeness, the inseparability of all its fundamentals, it’s materials, it’s techniques - demands to be experienced as art beyond craft.  

Mildred Constantine and Jack Lenor Larson

Beyond Craft: The Art Fabric 1972

Suns and moons and a single star

 Starting from one’s knowledge of the beautiful effects of colours isn’t the same as copying nature mechanically and slavishly. 

Van Gogh letter #537 to Theo. Wednesday October 28, 1885

Your fragile life

Art objects remove us from the everyday. 

white cross

 

We gather information with our senses.  Touch. Smell. Taste. 

These are REAL.  

The body knows.