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This archiving process is changing my perception of everything. Taking me back and forth and through time and my visions and the depth of my desires. I remember doing the drawings like it was yesterday on the counter tops and sometimes the studio tables in the Art Department at Bradford College. The drawings were done…
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In my efforts to close down my almost two year project of Drawing with Nature with the photographs in the series Wide Angle on Nature As It Turns to Dust, and Coloring Book Pages and all the variations that will emanate from there which I have yet to document or even do, I came upon…
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The next step in the evolution of the photographs of the Drawing With Nature series was isolating the shapes in the photographs in this next group of pieces. The sizes of the latter shapes were often tiny and almost invisible so I decided to take pictures of the pieces in the series as I would…
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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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When I completed the two-part Drawing with Nature Series here and here, I started to clean up the table in my studio where I had collected the flowers and grasses and leaves for over a year. My intention was to crush everything into dust and return it to the earth. As I started to do…
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The most emotionally difficult years of my life were the ones immediately following the finalization of a divorce from a marriage that had lasted twenty-five years. No one asked how I felt or how I was getting along. I was simply empty, so uncertain as to how to proceed, humiliated, emasculated as a woman, and…
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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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The adjusted photograph below is the first image phase of projects going forward involving twigs and branches. The above image evolved into the image below, clearing the way for understanding how a Metaphysical Alphabet is born.
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This series was started in the Fall of 2019. The branches are trimmings from a winter-killed holly bush and cuttings from two apple trees by my terrace. The series will continue slowly as I collect new branches. They carry on from earlier installation pieces done in my studio in 2018. My intention is to highlight…
