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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Today I deciced to photograph different elements of the garden since so much of my creativity goes into gardening. And looky-here! Three universal symbols were
waiting for me on the back steps.

One good thing—May 11, 2011

Grapes. Besides the taste, they were one good thing I did for myself—chosing grapes instead of a sundae. Actually, two good things—enjoyed drawing them on my new app. No, one good thing, it crashed before I could save. No, make that two after all—I had a feeling it was going to crash and took a photo before I lost the sketch.