Just below, you will find this week’s landscape collages inspired by my own photographs. (I’m also including the actual landscape photographs.)
This week marks one-third of the way through the hundred days. Despite many other work, community, and professional commitments this week, I’m still going strong! I also have two other intensive creative projects this week associated with art classes I’m taking: a fabric book of birds and spiritual-process paintings. Completing those artworks as well as making these daily collages has taken hours on some days but has not dried up my creative well. I’ve also been keeping up with new initiatives at TEALarbor stories, many of which demand creative energy (of a different sort). The message I’m getting this week is to just keep showing up, trusting the process, and courageously arriving at the blank page (written, created, collaged, sewn, painted …) - no matter what.
The collages this week include: a very dark 8:31 AM at the pier near the Suquamish tribal lands (2016); a very dark Puget Sound sunset (6:53 PM) in May 2020; the pink sunrise in Winthrop, Washington (2019); “Nature’s Echo” in Alaska (2008); “After the Humpback Breached” off the Seattle/Bainbridge ferry in July last summer; a sunset in Marietta, WA (2017); and “Midmorning Midwinter” at Fort Ward, Bainbridge Island (2022).
The connection I have with the natural world is tangible, memory-imbued, and apparently expressible through various media. I encourage you to recall a moment in the living nonhuman world, abide in a reverie of details and imagery, and take a few minutes to put it down on paper in some way – a splash of paint, a few torn and glued pieces of paper, some heartfelt words scribbled across a page.
