Saturday

A Saturday painting.

En Plein Air.

I kept diving through my studio

for mediums to fill the

light and space.

I couldn't leave well enough alone.

I had to layer, cover, smear, scrape and repeat.

Then again maybe it really wasn't

well enough

after-all.

I used an old door

to support my assembled glued strips of 

printmaking paper.

Gel medium, tissue paper, netting and plaster

were used to create textures on the paper.

Ink, oil stick, charcoal, 

Stabilo pencil and conte crayon

were layered and layered and layered.

And it now hangs 

next to my

bathroom door.

Next to King Jack

under the bell jar.

In my ears...

New Life & Coleslaw

I gave new life

to an existing 

large-scale installation.

It seemed like the right thing to do

for I had shoved it into a

humiliating position

to store it safely until further notice.

Much like how life can

mosey along just fine

then abruptly shift direction.

Sure you adapt but

before you know it...

you've allowed some parts of yourself to be shoved into

an introverted space which renders you 

stagnant.

The piece was created to hang

in the middle of a gallery space,

viewable from all sides.

It has since been used as a studio curtain,

and then...

I shoved it into a ball in a shed full of spiders

(sad but true).

I've cut it from it's original

translucent covering

and stripped it of its rusted wire

and it now lives

as a wall hanging

as if it were a painting...

transformed from something it once was.

And then I made coleslaw...

while listening to this...

(several times... because I evidently like it THAT much)...

Simple. Nature. Soothing.

I hike for the exercise and the connection to the organics of what this earth produces. I can not hike without being enveloped with the colors and textures the forest displays. I stop along the way to create an unnatural composition of natural matter in simple form. I leave it behind for others to possibly notice and for the earth to take it back to it's uncontrolled arrangement. Andy Goldsworthy [CLICK HERE] is a master at this craft for which I am grateful to discover.