8/24 Bauble

On 8/24 I went back to an old practice of painting what I call baubles. I haven't done one in months, but all the materials were left on the table waiting for me to try again.

8/27 future baubles

The plan was: draw future baubles for 15 minutes or fill the last three pages of my sketchbook, whichever comes first. Turns out they take longer than I remember. I exceeded my time limit and filled only one page. The process was interesting. As I began there were problems, irritations, water dripping on me. As I worked I became very focused and began enjoying my self. All problems and stress shifted, I went into deep concentration and all was well.

8/27 Bauble: Outside the Lines

I painted this one late at night. I was tired and had shaky hands. Sometimes life be like that.

You Decide

Some of the imagery in the collage I made today makes sense since it was recently the air and water show and I recently visited the Bahai temple. The rest is a mystery.

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Blue Evolution

I made this collage on Sun Aug 21 2011. I chose to go with the color blue and images that were in some way surprising or intriguing to me. It's interesting that hands appear here as well as in Feel Good in My Body, the collage I did a few days earlier. I like the vivid colors, the sense of forward motion, evolution, swimming to flight, earth, water, sky, the zigzags implied in the landscape. There is something humorous about those webbed hands, something serious about that bird's expression.

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Feel Good in My Body

On Aug 19 2011 I made this little collage. I stuck with orange shades and images of light. The upturned hand didn't really fit with the orange and light theme, but I was compelled to include it. The words "Feel Good in My Body" appeared, pre-cut, out of nowhere. I must have cut that out some time ago and it just slipped out from between the pages of one of the magazines. Those words tied the hand image and light images together for me: for what are we but sparks of light within the structure of the body? I included several details of the collage just for fun. It turns out the collage was a little preview of the next day's activities. On Aug 20 I saw Terrence Malick's Tree of Life. It was full of similar images of light in darkness.

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I just really like this photo for its colors and textures and wanted to share it. It looks best enlarged.

Spiral Square Cross 2

If you can see the image enlarged, the spiral is in the front, winding up the old allium stalk. I took this picture for the spiraling morning glory, not realizing that there were squares and crosses in the windows in the background. The emerging theme in the past 3-4 weeks has been to look again and see what was unseen. The images present themselves without my effort. This reminds me there is unseen support presenting itself to me all the time, whether I notice it or not. Neat.

SpiralSquareCross Collage

I deconstructed some magazine images of crosses, squares, and spirals. Then I constructed this collage. Some of the symbols were invisible to me until I put it all together. I didn't believe I had found any crosses, but I see them now.