the desert Series

When I finished the Spring semester of teaching, I was eager to head into the studio, for pure looking and silence. I often  think about the time that I camped in the desert, the macro and micro levels of experience- the landscape, plants, the close palate, the stripped down feeling of it. I have not been there since September, but I was inspired to make small drawings as meditation, as exploration, as memory and hand work. For this series of 50 I used walnut oil and prussian blue water color. This series is available on etsy. Enjoy

rip rap and lichen

walnut ink 

watercolor 

pen and brush

8" x 8"

pool and needles

walnut ink 

watercolor 

pen and brush

8" x 8"

fish hooks

walnut ink 

watercolor 

pen and brush

8" x 8"

arch and drag

walnut ink 

watercolor 

pen and brush

8" x 8"

attentiveness

"attentiveness is the only means by which we can know the nature and qualities of our moment by moment existence. the entrance gate through which a person can not just be in his or her life, but know it, taste it, consider it. attentiveness is what opens us into a conscious human experience. i do see the development of a continually deeper and more clarified and refining attentiveness as the path through which art and craft, as well as life are more fully revealed."

"...we seek in art the elusive intensity by which it knows..."

Jane Hirshfield