What says autumn better than the color orange. Ok maybe some fool running through your neighborhood at midnight yelling “autumn, autumn, autumn!” But that’s just some young misguided drunk Buckeyes fan, and in another few years he maybe your accountant, lawyer, or doctor. Don’t let it get you down in the dumps – it’s autumn! Have a happy Thanksgiving!
A note to Sassafrass:
It may be crumbling but it sure is colorful. The facade has taken a pummeling but I assure you it is still structurally sound.
This specialized piece of machinery has probably been helping to hold up its train tressel bridge for decades. Support comes in many different ways, the wear and tear illuminates the innate beauty of a consistency and reliability. Those of us with a good support system should open our eyes to that beauty.
Sometimes life is like watching paint dry. Now as an artist that has it’s place: a time of repose where ideas generate. But the more exciting metaphor is when the paint starts to chip off. That is the time of activity and metamorphosis. I feel the time of actually starting to create is coming around again.
The cooler weather is coming. The 90 degree weather has been very uncomfortable. What about the infamous lake effect up here in the rust belt? This picture is taken from the shore of a Madison, Wisconsin lake. I have no idea what made this texture congeal. Hopefully it is some side-effect of cool weather, though it is mostly likely just pollution.
Coffee
There are many of us printmakers who have a fascination with “mark-making.” We go gaga over the beauty of lines be they purposeful, random chance or accidental. The grace of a line can be as beautiful as an entire Miro painting. In fact many of his paintings sprang from some early fragment on his canvas which became the guiding foundation of that piece. Nature using man-made objects as it’s matrix is probably the best mark-maker. Photographers of the Aaron Siskind perspective appreciate these as much as printmakers. I wish I could capture those works of wonder as well as he could. This photo is a digital effort from my travels in Spain. I believe it is the remnants of poster glue on a wall in Valencia.
