Birch trees silhouetted against the steel gray sky. Winter ravens watch the sheep below. The farm – a hidden shelter.
Hand-printed Etchings / Landscapes
Birch trees silhouetted against the steel gray sky. Winter ravens watch the sheep below. The farm – a hidden shelter.
Harvesting flowers and leaves – they went into jars to be dyeing during the winter.
This three-dimensional card (*12″ x 12″x 24″ tall) hangs and moves on the air. The bottom part consists of images of her and me, to represent 5 past decennia, one new decennium, and a quote from a letter by my sister on time. Each decennium has a small insert of portraits – one photo of her at that time, one of mine, back-to-back. In the framing background a one-colorized enlargement of the photo in that panel.
It comes down to the fact that, to change and become a person of beauty, of goodness, of truth, it is only we ourselves who can do this. Like one who forges iron from earth with fire we forge ourselves in the huge labor to the best we can be.
Flower Pounding is basically a means to transfer the color and shape of flowers (I used some frozen) on paper or fabric
Ever since visiting Île d’Oléron (on the French coast north of Bordeaux), where salt is harvested,
