“There is religion in everything around us
A calm and holy religion
In the unbreathing things in Nature.
It is a meek and blessed influence,
Stealing in as it were unaware upon the heart;
It comes quickly, and without excitement;
It has no terror, and no gloom;
it does not rouse up the passions,
It is untrammelled by creeds…
It is the poetry of Nature…”
-John Ruskin
"Cylinder sacks of water filling the oceans,
endless bullets of water,
skins full of water rolling and tumbling
as we came together.
As though light broke us apart...."
from "Genesis" by Ruth Stone
2015-2017 series
made with various media: watercolor, ink, acrylic, graphite, charcoal and pastel, collage, and various drawing media
"...Though we wander about,
find no honey of flowers in this waste,
is our task the less sweet—
who recall the old splendour,
await the new beauty of cities?
The city is peopled
with spirits, not ghosts, O my love:
Though they crowded between
and usurped the kiss of my mouth
their breath was your gift,
their beauty, your life...."
from "Cities" by HD (Hilda Doolittle)
current series (2016-present) in various media: oil, acrylic, collage, drawing, textile, hand and machine stitching, etc.
"The poppies start as aliens
end as husbands, a pause
of light, a dull scatter.
Transports dandelion clouds.
Venus passes between sun &
earth...."
from "The Transit of Venus" by Susan Firer
2016-2017 series
watercolor, ink, graphite, charcoal, prismacolor, acrylic
"...In the empty theater of such a night, waking to meet
no external radiance, this is the final struggle left to win,
this the sole beacon to beckon the darkness in and let the rest
begin...."
from The Ghost Light by Robin Morgan
ongoing exploration of light/empty space/division (2015-present) in graphite, watercolor, prismacolor, charcoal, pastel
"On rain washed paper dried, ink
still blurs. But all words
are stains. The paper’s rippled
lunar, mountain and crater,
and seas on the moon, misnomer
of plains that looked like
water once, no-end-to-it shadows,
fractal to fractal...."
from
"On rain washed paper dried, ink" by Marianne Boruch
very current work in book arts, in various media
"...and there space: a chill expanse
widening out, a fluid
surface breaking in the light..."
from "Alternate Landscape" by Brad Leithauser
2014-2016 series: watercolor, acrylic, ink on paper
"Things weren’t very specific
when I was in labor,
yet everything was
there, suddenly: all that
my body had known,
even things I’d only been
reminded of occasionally,
as when a stranger’s scent
had reminded me
of someone I’d known
in the distant past...."
from "In the Distant Past" by Carrie Fountain
a few selections from 2009-2015, including welded steel, assemblage, and installation
