watercolor 82 13 x 20”
1:30 PM: on our morning trail walk, i was getting signals for a new direction. it involves dividing the composition into a number of square/rectangular boxes. each contains elements from one of the images i’ve been using for the watercolor series. each box, for convenience sake, bears a number corresponding to the number i wrote on the individual creek image it’s based upon. once i begin filling in the individual boxes, cross pollination begins taking place, so that elements from one box may overlap or bleed into an adjacent one. it’s a work in progress, but this is the first iteration.
the viewers eye then makes his/her own sense of the entire image. although it derives from, in this case 9 discreet images, an endless number of connections can be made, creating a kind of moveable composition determined by form, line and color. a rock morph into a bird; a branch into a worm…
yesterday afternoon, i noticed the first cactus blossom of the season. our little cacti bloom every june, and the blossoms last only a few days or maybe a week. this one showed up just outside the entryway to our house. there were 3 of them, each with a bee in it’s center, enjoying the nectar.