Currents Flowing Beneath the Surface

Fluent

  John O’Donohue

I would love to live

Like a river flows,

Carried by the surprise

Of its own unfolding.

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Surprises of my own unfolding:

(a) A Chance to Risk Everything Without Being Injured or Deposed
(b) Everything Makes Itself Apparent at the Appropriate Time
1.5 x 5.5 bookmarks; acrylic, ink, and oil pastel on paper
abstract
2022

More in Real Time

I decided to peel off the painter's tape with the intent to cut what was originally going to be a single piece into four smaller pieces. 

Peeling the tape from this work-in-progress was different from my usual experience of peeling tape away because I don't usually divide an already-started piece with tape and keep working on it as I did in this case.

Check this out:

underlayers of a work-in-progress revealed; 
cruciform format takes stage

Having peeled the tape, I lifted the arm of my paper trimmer and removed what is the center vertical runway in the photo above.

I fully intended to keep trimming, and still do, but I've granted myself 24 hours to be mesmerized by the two resulting pieces before making those cuts.

work in progress A

work in progress B

Absolutely from Scratch

Every year a given tree

creates absolutely from scratch

ninety-nine percent of its living parts.
A big elm

in a single season

might make as many as 

six million leaves,

wholly intricate,

without budging an inch;

I couldn't make one.

                                     Annie Dillard

                     Pilgrim at Tinker Creek

Without budging from my studio, scratching my head in wonder and bemusement, unlike Annie Dillard I do create—absolutely from scratch—a handful of wholly intricate leaves! Woo hoo!

Firebursts
4 x 6"; acrylic, ink, and collage on card stock
abstract
2019

An improbable history:

Firebursts