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During the execution part one and two of the Drawing with Nature Series, the shape content of each of the photographs came to my attention, in some photographs more than in others. I printed out those which had the most discernable shapes and started to draw on them, tracing the easily visible edges with a…
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In my pursuit of a consistent statement with the photograph above, which I believe to be one of the most powerful images I have ever photographed, I made 15 black and white images of groups of twigs that I grabbed from a pile that was not the aforementioned pile but a different pile of smaller…
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These two pieces are an effort to employ a design format emanating from Japanese culture. It is my intention to begin to put together the present elements of my work in one place or in one place many times. The only addition I have made to the materials I use, i.e. pigmented pen and markers…
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When I first moved to North Adams, I had to make some inroads with the art community. My first contact was with a lady whose installation space was praised by my friend who owns a ceramic art gallery that operates on the MassMoca campus. After she visited my studio early on in my life in…
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Through the times, the days change. It is becoming fall. The air is cooler, the colors naturally different, intrinsically pointing to the above ground life dying as the below ground life goes dormant. It is November now. The second phase of my picture taking begins. Drawing with Nature 106 through 116, posted on 11/4/22, my…
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A long while ago, I placed some flowers I was drying out on a table in my studio. On the table also were some sheets of paper I use to protect the drawings I do from any dirt that is on my right arm while drawing. On these pieces of paper, I sometimes make squiggles…
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It took a year to determine how to use the thirty-four pictures I took of the drawing below. This drawing was so difficult to do, that is, imitating the image of an 8 x 10 photo of branches, that I took pictures moving across and down the drawing to ensure that I could retain the…
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Once I had created shapes out of the photographs of the twigs, by drawing around both the image of the twig and the shadow of the twig, I made scans of the original drawings so I could trace them for other sets of drawings. These are the first set of scans. Another group of scans…
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These pieces are another step in the process of building on the basis of my twig photographs in the creation of the Metaphysical Alphabet. These pieces are also framed and the reflections of my studio or me appear in the photos.
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These twenty pieces are an extension of the photographs of twigs that I originally took towards the creation of Metaphysical Alphabet. Just as there are many words that can be formed with the any language alphabet so there can be endless iterations of the forms dealt with in the Twig photos. Each piece in this…
