Good Morning Warmup 4

Began as an abstract,

grew into a landscape.

available through the artist

Good Morning Warmup 3

Discretion

Where might this conversation lead?
To a harmonious outcome?
Along a tangent, toward ambiguity?
Into an impassibly perpendicular crossroad?

Site lines, 
timelines,
storylines,
fishing lines,
pickup lines,
deadlines.

Beware the seduction of form,
a lure.

5"x 8" watercolor, available through the artist

 

Good Morning Warmup 2

UncErtaiNty
A gelatinous soup of potential,
dimensionless fog of ambiguity,
ubiquitous ambivalence
distilled into two dimensions.

5"x8" watercolor is available from the artist

Good Morning Warmup 1

Creating routine in the studio
means having to fool myself

into doing "the right thing".

Don't over think it.
Jump in the deep end,

thrash about,
savor small moments of success.

Stroke by stroke,
become comfortable in the element
until finally,
 rise up and out
to look back
over the cohesive accumulation
of efforts.

5"x8" watercolor and ink 

Goodbye Cicadas, Goodbye Summer

A cool September evening

and bars of brassy light,
low-angled,

stripe my back bent
over a drawing table

studying the body
of a cicada carcass.

Found in the garden
dead
clinging to a support
above the earth 
where it had laid it's eggs

after a passionate August affair
that it had spent years
anticipating.

Hours passed
giving my full attention
to every detail of the body
recording with crow quill pen
and india ink.

Considering the perfect balance
of it's form,
the grand finale of it's existence
 surpassing even the need
to eat
or maintain it's own life
so dedicated to love
and reproduction
it was.

I cannot help but feel

respect and affection
for this being

and it's kin.