The White Rabbit’s Obsession
Time (Mis)Management
can’t yet … not right now …
gotta, gotta … in a sec …
don’t have time … hang on …
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3 x 3″; watercolor and colored pencil on paper
card #13 in a series of color swatches
2025
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Notes about poem and art:
• “Time (Mis)” is a haiku originally penned in 2009. I dusted it off to post here today as a prelude to my next post.
• In creating The Quiet, challenges inherent in this series of color swatches once again totally engaged me. I had to block out time to move from start to finish in one go, from taking snips of our Strawberry Smoothie Rose of Sharon shrub, to keeping the snips fresh while I painted, to snagging an image before everything wilted. The photography was particularly tricky—keeping the flower fresh, making sure it was dry and wouldn’t reactivate the paint, positioning it so as to showcase the deep color at each petal’s base (chose to remove some petals), and capturing shadows that’d elevate rather than detract. Way fun!
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12 responses to “The White Rabbit’s Obsession”
Carol, you’ve picked up on all the elements here—thank you! My relationship with time plays a hefty role in my day-to-day living. It was fun to pull out this haiku from many years ago as part of taking an up-close-and-personal look at that relationship.
And then “my” garden, which is 99.99% Dave’s garden. That’s his spiritual home/endeavor for months of the year. This year, it has been my great honor and pleasure to document it, bit by bit, both with paint and photography, each with its challenges and nourishment.
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MaryAnn, thank you for your keen eye and sensibility to the energy of art, both its creation and the creation that comes from the making process. I so appreciate your noticings and your way of writing reflections about what you perceive. I love knowing that you can fully imagine, as though you were doing the creating yourself, what it felt like to place those petals and to audition various patterns of shadow. Such a gift, your feedback!
Replying from a rented cabin in the middle of Washington state somewhere, so we’ll see if I can get complete sentences to you! I confess, I am most eager to hear the end to your sentence beginning with “You had me …”
In any case, enjoy your rented shack by the sea, the sea itself, and each other!
Sheila, thank you for taking in all the pieces of poem and painting! You’re a keen observer. LOL that my haiku mirrored your day, gone before you knew it! No surprise there with your 30 Day Creative Gathering in full swing with just one week to go. Whew!
Thanks for joining me in enjoying these gorgeous colors, and for noticing that one stamen off on its own : )
This is a truly gorgeous bloom. I love how you placed one stamen off on it’s own.
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