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A recent commission for abstract calligraphy was a

A recent commission for abstract calligraphy was an imitation of sorts back into the world of ink. I’m beginning the shift to make work for a show in April. Music is the new element, Thankyou Michael for the morning soundtrack. The @ravvast is a sound that will change your brain cells. #abstractart #meditationart #inkpainting

Lotus and Dragonfly, new prints and cards See fir

Lotus and Dragonfly, new prints and cards
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Lotus and Dragonfly: The Impermanence Suite is now

Lotus and Dragonfly: The Impermanence Suite is now available as prints and cards. First link in bio).
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#greetingcards #lotusflower #photographicart #lyricphotography #photographicart #wabisabiart #miniartprint #dragonfly #botanicalart #floralartist #newmedia #meditation #floralart #The GardenersAlmanacOfIrreproducible Phenomena #botanicalstationary #elegantart #elegantstationary #etsyartist#artforsalebyartist #waterflowers #pond #seattleartist #watergarden

An urban morning, recalled from the afternoon. Mod

An urban morning, recalled from the afternoon. Modern editing technology allows us to be happy by removing the garbage can (swipe left). We can also take away color to lose even more identification of the Particular, which would be: the loss of the QFC on the street I used to walk for a lifetime, filled with people who checked out groceries for 20+ years. They knew your name, you knew theirs, they had a profound tolerance policy when it came to elders with canes and sudden lack of recognition of I-thou-protocol or gravity or what was formerly known as social skills. This was my street. Also, the person with a cane, she was mine, and now whenever I see a daughter holding the arm of someone walking slowly I send a benediction.

Across the street, not pictured, is the boarded up front of The Coastal Kitchen. This remarkable restaurant was a mainstay of community for countless years. (May it survive the most recent assault🙏❤️— a car? Through plate glass...) On Thursdays a certain cohort would land at the bar. They didn’t trade names, they just acknowledged sensibility. The women (it was mostly women) had a book, and ordered salad and wine. The rare couple didn’t read, but talked to everyone: sparks flew. The manager, one of The Great Hosts, (dimples, OMG that hair!) went on to marry A Very Young Woman, and started a new life with a baby and a new restaurant, now vanished in the sainted clouds of history.

Walking this street at 7:45 AM to get a bone scan I think of the Romans. Stone, bone, armies of those who love life, and those who live to somehow break it, often in the name of ideology. A bone scan is routine. Polyester shorts, grinning cartoon decals on the machine, a kindly nurse so buried in masks you have no idea what she is saying but you trust the kindness. They tell you to take Vitamin D and pray.

In the most atheistic city in America that takes the form of these photographs, considering consciousness. The viewer and the viewed. Statement and effacement. None of us knows how long we will be here.
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“Harlequin 1.” Balancing acts. . . . . #collag

“Harlequin 1.” Balancing acts.
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Meanwhile….in another thread of my studio practi

Meanwhile….in another thread of my studio practice this piece “A Quieter Room” is off to a house built to echo the peace and clarity of a zendo. 28x42”, one of one. The second view shows it close in scale to the actual installation.

This summer I’m studying art history, personal history, archives, sitting for hours in the mornings with artists like #pauljenkins and his 1983 book Anatomy of a Cloud. Paul Jenkins (1923-2012) pulled it all together: deep research, travel, heroic scale, paint phenomena, massive ego— and collage as a form of both art and introspection. Scissors, brush, bucket, glue. Collage life is a no-conflict zone. Yes/and. Taking the moment to inhabit that open space while it’s here.
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