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Jelly Scribble Nine 8.5 x 32 Egg tempera over ultrachrome inkjet on Lexan $300
Jelly Scribble Ten 8.5 x 32 Egg tempera over ultrachrome inkjet on Lexan $200
Welcome to my open sketchbook where I'm playing with new mediums, ideas and ways of making art.
Right now I'm obsessed with the Ice Jellies! If you want to know why ice and jellies scroll down to the bottom of this page and read an archive from my blog which kind of explains the ice part. The jelly part comes from my anemone fusion drawing series. Here's what I wrote while I was making those drawings (it's true of the jellies as well)
September 2008
The anemone drawings arose through inspiration from a passage in Susan Griffin’s novel A Chorus of Stones: “Elements which had been divided came together, that which was floating in the ocean just below the surface not far from the light nor too near.”
When I owned a boat I’d often sit on the sun-drenched dock and watch the sea anemones moving tenderly in subdued sunlight. They seemed in harmony with all else and didn’t need a definition to be beautiful. No explanation was necessary for them to have meaning and, to me, they didn’t serve any purpose other than to stimulate wonder. They were simply part of this wave of conscious energy whose fate is inextricably linked directly to my own.
In the fall of 2008 on the anniversary of September 11 I revisited these anemones on a trip to Maine. At the same time I learned the first analysis of the genome of the sea anemone showed it to be nearly as complex as the human genome. Apparently this offered scientists major insights into the common ancestor of, not only humans and sea anemones, but of nearly all multi-celled animals. Pretty amazing how the more we see, the more we understand how closely we’re linked.
The anemone series is about that place of coalescence where the invisible becomes visible where the ideas of love and beauty become reality.
I am calling these experimental works "scribbles." I think if I do that then I can keep the spirit of play in them.
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An archive from March 02010 (the extra 0? helps me be optimistic about us and our beautiful planet)
I've been thinking, well more like pondering, about ice.
That week after my solo show FLUX opened I needed to find a quiet place to wander. It happened, yes magic happens, that I came across a nearby ice covered stream I'd never visited before. The beauty of the ice and water moved me. Perhaps my body, made of so much water, was responding to something remembered. I only knew at the time I needed to shoot images.
The water rushing and swirling beneath it's own patterns made solid in the ice was incredibly beautiful.
So why ice and jellies? To me both seem to be messengers of our climate change. Both are delicate and seem fragile. Both have their own unique relationship with the ocean.
I'm also thinking about climate change or global warming.
As I watch our ice out this week I think about the glaciers melting.
A few weeks ago I heard about James Balog, an amazing nature photographer, and his Extreme Ice Survey. What I like about James is his positive outlook in the face of clear evidence that 95% of our glaciers are melting or retreating.
He says our understanding about global warming is merely a matter of perception. I think he is correct. He also believes we have the science, technology, and financing available to solve the problems. I think he's correct here too. You can watch his 20 minute talk at TED and get inspired about ice.
That's why ice.
I've been thinking, well more like pondering, about ice.
That week after my solo show FLUX opened I needed to find a quiet place to wander. It happened, yes magic happens, that I came across a nearby ice covered stream I'd never visited before. The beauty of the ice and water moved me. Perhaps my body, made of so much water, was responding to something remembered. I only knew at the time I needed to shoot images.
The water rushing and swirling beneath it's own patterns made solid in the ice was incredibly beautiful.
So why ice and jellies? To me both seem to be messengers of our climate change. Both are delicate and seem fragile. Both have their own unique relationship with the ocean.
I'm also thinking about climate change or global warming.
As I watch our ice out this week I think about the glaciers melting.
A few weeks ago I heard about James Balog, an amazing nature photographer, and his Extreme Ice Survey. What I like about James is his positive outlook in the face of clear evidence that 95% of our glaciers are melting or retreating.
He says our understanding about global warming is merely a matter of perception. I think he is correct. He also believes we have the science, technology, and financing available to solve the problems. I think he's correct here too. You can watch his 20 minute talk at TED and get inspired about ice.
That's why ice.