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EXAMPLE OF THE ACTUAL PLAYING OF THE SIMPLE GAME original caption Found at the freestore ... a 1924 edition of the Ma-Jung Manual by Henry M. Snyder ...Riverside Press, Cambridge, scribbled and foxed . |
...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
Saturday, March 31, 2012
ma jung play
Friday, March 30, 2012
Hostas...quite dead leaves
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Every year we grow Hostas and every fall I collect the fragile translucent leaves, wash them gently and dry them in my studio...Most years I photograph them once they have become contorted ephemeral sculptures ....architects of light. Last year I photographed them by moonlight in the icy cold water on our deck, rushing to get them in before ice and snow destroyed them. Harvested at the verge of organic re-absorption, their age and elegance recorded for my pleasure...maybe yours. |
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| Once the leaves have lost all their moisture they are surprisingly durable, I have had some for years... I photograph the individual leaves and occasionally transform the images using Photoshop. |
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| Hosta volupta 2004 |
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| And...the Hostage was wearing - from 2004 |
Monday, March 26, 2012
from the counter culture
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| Coffeemaker Society (subculture drip) from the Series: Counter Culture meets Grater Drawer Dwellers... |
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| Coolmosh |
Saturday, March 24, 2012
the Children's Book of Illustrated Fern fronds
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| found fronds |
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| Baby Doll Pond Fern Baby's Tears, Baby's Breath, Baby Toes, Baby Blue Eyes, Finger Aloe, Finger Cactus, Fingertips (Dudleya edulis), and Nipple cactus? Digitaria- Finger grass, five finger grass...five finger ferns... |
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| In the Free Store the pudgy plastic digits are frozen in wiggling waves... |
Thursday, March 15, 2012
Wednesday, March 14, 2012
Junkus scribbilarius...pond rush
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| marginalia... a rush of pond thoughts |
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| marginalia...something unique and wonderful to find, not so common as you might believe...fortunately some students over time have been encouraged to and relied upon making notes and expressing themselves in books. Gratefully I collect (harvest) them for 'the roots' of my own pencil grass series...even more perfect are these which border Walden - Civil Disobedience... Henry David Thoreau. Riverside Editions... circa 1960. *check out the poem Marginalia by Billy Collins... try the library or online...there is a video reading on YouTube. *Studs Terkel, the oral historian, was known to admonish friends who would read his books but leave them free of markings. He told them that reading a book should not be a passive exercise, but rather a raucous conversation. |
Monday, March 5, 2012
Junkus...grasses and rushes
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| Another grass for the print portfolio and a detail below....I know it is difficult to see all the tiny bits... next will be another junkus...perhaps the finger grass |
Thursday, March 1, 2012
Corvus ferlinghetti...re constantly risking absurdity
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| introducing the corvid poet...with tire sidewalls, golf club handles, turntable disc, speakers, boot soles, bed springs...rusted metal. The end paper came from the Natural Cure for Rupture 1902... |
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