On the Way to Mount Jefferson Park, Sept. 2013

Maple Leaf Vessel

The art making process

I lay awake at night, plotting execution of a sculpture, considering shapes and materials, ultimately getting up to jot down notes in my sketchbook.  Sometimes the nighttime idea generation is like going into a cave, with a candle, and looking at the paintings on the walls.  Looking at light and shadow, at patterns in rivers, sunlight on water, the shape of a wooden burl, I find inspiration on my walks.  Nature informs the work and provides material constantly. The work shifts and changes, and it is an evolving thing, like an organism.

January 2013 Show in West Gallery: Thoughtforms

From the Disa collection

Still Life with Onion, The Blue Bottle

Film Stills

Reflections
Thoughts
Feelings

Insights
Particles of Wonder

Dreams
What does thought look like?

Inspirations
What creates shadows?

Mysteries
Can you see them?

Walking
Moving
Flower spike unfurling

Is is visible?
Or is it beyond the naked eye...
I show you bits and parts and the wholeness exists
as the very foundation of Being

Materials research: Wire

Materials research: maple

Acer macrophyllum pedicels

Tracks. Cable Marsh.

Above: larger than a house kitty paw...

Lots of raccoon...

Heron or egret or...?

A study of the plants in the Kinship garden, bronze

Breitenbush Iris

"Art is tonic and medicinal for us all."

~Julia Cameron

Shell Form, Raven's Wing, plaster