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Storm 15 x 11," solar etching artist proof on BFK Rives printmaking paper. Storm was created in 2002, evoking not just a physical squall, but the political, social and economic storm precipitated by the 9/11 attack. We weather many storms, personally and collectively. They can occur at an internal level, or at a macro level. We witness them astronomically - consider the great eye of Jupiter, a massive storm system raging across that planet for years.
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I’ve lost all sense of grace,
thank god. My thirst is deeper;
it shrieks for that kite slicing through unseen
geographies, lost, windstorm-dazed,
her compass needle wild as a roulette wheel. | -“Fowl at Large” by Sarah Giragosian. | |
A garden offers the opposite of the disembodied uncertainties of writing. It’s vivid to all the senses, it’s a space of bodily labor, of getting dirty in the best and most literal way, an opportunity to see immediate and unarguable effect… To spend time frequently with these direct experiences is clarifying, a way of stepping out of the whirlpools of words and the confusion they can whip up. In an age of lies and illusions, the garden is one way to ground yourself in the realm of the processes of growth and the passage of time, the rules of physics, meteorology, hydrology, and biology, and the realms of the senses. – Rebecca Solnit, in Orwell’s Roses (Viking Press, 2021) | | |
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I've been thinking about our inner caves for the past weeks. A garden, and our presence in it, is similar to entering that space of imagination. As Solnit says, it is devoid of words. We all need garden time now, as our social sphere is crowded with nasty exchanges, vituperative declarations directed at some of us, and a frenzy of what feels like screaming. I'm holding onto this "we". As an individual, I value the we that is everywhere I look, speak and act. And, yes, I'm holding onto that kite string. What kites see when they are aloft, if they spoke of it, I believe would astonish all of us, this magnificent we. |
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Above: The Cave, 16" diameter, oil paint, mica on paper mounted on panel with pewter. $1,600. |
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