Color Notes – Lapis Lazuli
Have I mentioned I recently started making my paints? It’s a slow meditative process, and I am developing a sensitivity to the personality of each pigment and learning their fascinating histories. Especially after writing what I did above about the powerful combination of learning information and experiential knowledge at Newberry Volcano, essentially the way I move through life whenever possible, I am flabbergasted that it has taken me this long to make my paint. Now that I have started, I don’t want to use manufactured paint anymore. It’s all so homogenous and lacking personality. Blues... Read More
It Just Might be Marvelous
The gun club and the eddy are two places I wouldn’t enter without good reason, and together, they have a darkly seductive draw. I have entered the gun club twice because that’s where the eddy is accessed. My first visit to the eddy was punctuated by the sound of gunshots. The second was snow-covered and silent.
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Relationships
This beginning on a cold dusky evening was so near to the last place I floated the Klamath River years ago when I was teaching kayaking. This beginning met the previous end, picking up the dropped thread and beginning to weave a new pattern. That night we slept in our tents next to the river, listening to foxes screaming in the night.
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Art and Science on the Klamath River
An introduction to my Klamath River Project: What interests me more than knowledge and answers that science provides are the questions we each ask, why we ask them, and the ways we go about trying to find answers. Within the questions, I have found many points of convergence between art and science, primarily in process. My goal with this project is not to explain or illustrate science with my art. Doing so would keep the science contained within the realm of the intellect. Rather my aspiration is to ask better questions so I can know the river, as well as I can, to see and experience it from different perspectives, and to create artwork alongside science that may provide a shift of perception or a doorway that opens to awe and wonder.
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Movement
Dams fascinate me. We build large walls to hold the water back. We try to tame the water so we can control how much and when it flows. This contradicts the nature of water which is to constantly flow. Dams make me uneasy.
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