Dream World

I am loving a new book of poems I picked up called The Nine Senses, by Melissa Kwasny. These lines from her poem "The Book of Spells" inspired this digital piece. I've combined some of my own photography and bits of various digital backgrounds I've picked up along the way.

"Here, quiet as stone. A solid that blocks the ears. In our little camp,

sparkling with mica. In the water, which is the color of stones...

... Mouth of

water chewing the world to soft, spitting the hard pebbles of shale

and slate and shadow... Even here,

inland, we hear it sifting."

(from the poem, " The Book of Spells" by Melissa Kwasny)

It has been nice playing with digital art again. It gives me something to do while the paint is drying! ;) Thank you for your comments! I appreciate those of you who have stuck with me. Hugs to all of you!

Crumble

This is another digital art journal page. I was going through my digital files and had forgotten about these silhouette shapes. I love them. Their mysteriousness draws me to them. They remind me of ghosts; ghosts of our past selves, maybe.

The text is from a wonderful poem by Frank Bidart called The Old Man at the Wheel. The first part of the poem starts out like this: "Measured against the immeasurable/universe, no word you have spoken/brought light. Brought/light to what, as a child, you thought/too dark to be survived./By exorcism/you survived. By submission, then making./...

Then later in the poem are the two lines I use in this piece: "As you grip the things that were young when/you were young, they crumble in your hands./" The more I read the entire poem, the more I love it.

I receive the journal POETRY every month and it has been a great inspiration in my art lately. Not to mention a big boost to my poetry collection. There is a little paragraph about each poet in the back of the journal that lists their publishing credits. I have been adding some awesome books to my collection through this resource. Yay! ;)

I go back and forth between digital and physical journaling. I am feeling the pull to get back into the studio now. I've finished a page recently where I painted the page only with my fingers; it felt great! I like the freedom of smearing the paint over the page with my hand.

Today the studio calls again. It is supposed to be much cooler this weekend so I can open the windows and set up the exhaust fan. That means I am going to play with my encaustics for the first time in a long while. We shall see what that produces. I have had a few ideas in my head for a while now and I'm not sure how they will translate with the wax. The best way to find out is to experiment!