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| ...it has been some time since I finished a new botanical print...this one belongs to a series of Iron artichokes. I love the artichoke family... for, among other qualities, architectural structure, scale and their rich coastal fog flavour...those elusive tule (tulares) fogs that haunt the taste buds of memory...among which sour dough bread Frisco style.... Molinari's deli salami (North Beach), cheap, cheap Chianti, avocados and artichokes are some of the most powerful. Artichokes summon up William Saroyan, Muriel Rukeyser, John Steinbeck, Henry Miller and Robinson Jeffers (among others)...saline writers. Artichokes are Big Sur, Pescadero, Half Moon Bay, Bean Hollow, Año Nuevo beach...Jones Gulch, Haskins Hill, my dad, my brother and the lagoons of San Gregorio. The drive inland past artichoke fields of misty grey green giants, roadside stands and farmers like Joe...passionate, Portuguese, teasing, gritty... gods at their labour. |
...Botanical Curiosities & Junkyard Byrds...Botanical art and curiosities, digital collage, assemblage gallery and studio site...featuring Recycled Artworks, the unNatural History of the Flora and Fauna found in the Hornby Island Recycling Depot environs... + studio 5 graphic design
Monday, February 27, 2012
Cynara cardunculus var. sunbeamus
