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June 13, 2012 · 3:22 pm

Beauty In Mind

Beauty In Mind

Here’s a drawing I started awhile ago and finished today. I’m working on a painting too. More to come…

(and a poem)

We shake with joy, we shake with grief

What a time they have, these two

housed as they are in the same body.

-Mary Oliver

Today I picked up Marjorie Stoneman Douglas’ book River of Grass which is a beautiful book about the amazing place I live called the Everglades. Sometimes I forget what season it is, because for me it’s almost always summer.

So here is a painting from the real summer (at least for those of us in the Northern Hemisphere). I lost track of time and never got around to posting it. In a busy spring, summer, and fall, this is all I have to share as far as material work, but much has been added to the stores from which to draw inspiration.

And after a non-productive run of several months I am happy to have the time and space now to paint. I’m currently working on a large painting on an old window from Sunset Island base camp, so I will post that as soon as I am finished.