Pagescape VI Reflecting

PageScape VI Reflecting
8.25x5" Prisma Colour pencils on hardcover novel

It was another hot day, though there was a breeze rustling the leaves and stirring up patterns in the lake. Deb and I sat in the screen house, sketching and talking about the ever-shifting shapes of our lives. Every day, something changes, and our perception changes. And some days, our understanding of things completely starts over.

The lake so familiar to us changes constantly, subtly, reflecting the myriad transformations around it, sky and forest and little people living on its shore. Light flashes off the water. For a moment, we are not sure what we see.

Pagescapes

PageScape V Connecting

PageScape V Connecting
8.25x5" Prisma Colour pencils on hardcover novel

While my friend and collaborator desean was visiting, we had many discussions about our work processes, and especially how we work together. As soon as one of us mentions an idea, the other makes a connection, and from there we branch off in many directions, embellishing and refining, frequently returning to the original concept. Sometimes we begin with words, other times with images, weaving the two together into ideas for artwork series and books. Even when we are not collaborating, we often find ourselves making connections between our individual works. It is a meeting of minds, an artistic synthesis.

Pagescapes

Vision 15

Vision 15
8x5" coloured pencil on old text book

How carefully we attire and adorn ourselves
But the mind is the true clothing of the body

A Vision of Being

desean flies in from Vancouver

desean and Mary have corresponded and collaborated on art projects for many years. They decide it is time to gather their drawings and poems and art and writing together and turn it all into books.

desean flies in from Vancouver and arrives at Mary's house in Moonbeam with his computer and camera under his wing. It's a fancy red wing, as you can see.

flutterbirds

A393 Token VI (caregiver)

A393 Token VI (caregiver)
10x8" acrylic and prisma colour on board
Private collection

The Token theme is about the almost magical moments and events in our lives, often repeating, that can become symbolic to us. When a crisis arises, these tokens seem to fall from the sky; someone takes care of us, or something or someone suddenly appears to make us smile. Something special happens, or something doesn't happen (also gratifying, in some cases). Sometimes we don't notice them, little golden bits in almost every day. A smile. A word. The plaintive song of a bird. Moments of peace.

If we were to make a pile of all the little tokens we have ever received or found and count them, it would be shocking to see how many we collect in our lives, and how easily they roll away to hide in drawers or under other things, how easily they become tarnished. But if we all made a stack of them, if would be a mighty tower. It would make us look up.

Anomaly Series

Vision 14

Vision 14
8x5" coloured pencil on old text book

Whatever Life serves us, we should feast upon
For are we not glad to see the sun rise on a new day?

A Vision of Being