Art Spirit

change

 

Change is the constant and the place  the attention is  focused. Change is  the alignment, then realignment of the idea, the material, the action.

Care is taken.  Ideas are attended.

Change is  the intuitive becoming a physical expression.

treasures

Beneath the old house framed with cedar posts where the treasures of canning.  Dusty in the archived  shelves of the cellar.

Crab apples, beets, tomatoes wait. They rest in their jars savory  and sweet in their canned and sealed broth.

Handmade wooden stairs, the only way to the cache of syrup  with apple and cinnamon sticks, was narrow. Deliberate in steps and  slow in the descent.

The way back up, arms loaded with glass jars of  fruits and vegetables sealed away from time, slower still.

yoga class

Interesting as it was it began slowly, as always. Still crowded. Alone but in community.

Gathered in the room where the light was restricted to perching from the top of the wall through well designed  horizontal rectangles.

She was glad that she had made the effort. An effort that an hour earlier seemed heroic. Getting out of bed on a Saturday morning was always just this side of impossible.

The focus. The audible breath.

The palatable expectation then smoothed to genuine interior awakening.

Illustrations for 'Another Night'

Here are  some of the illustrations created for the book Another Night by Patrick Mercado. The book is very much about spirit and ethereal presence in our world. Whether we believe or not we are surrounded is the premise of the book. For this reason, the spirit and ethereal worlds, I chose to create the images in a way that was not about portraiture --- or my specific interpretation but about the presence, the being the person within and through the spirituality was being expressed. This was a wonderful challenge. It gave insight to a way of drawing and painting that still allows the figure to be present and the portraiture to still resonate  through the image. The silhouette is an interesting means of expression.