tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-64823107728620644702024-02-20T05:01:06.018-05:00RavenWood ForestValeriannahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02621130622153365184noreply@blogger.comBlogger144125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6482310772862064470.post-85128211054546000342017-04-30T16:27:00.000-04:002017-05-02T14:22:23.679-04:00Quietly Tending<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<span style="color: #660000;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Here I am, on a quiet Sunday afternoon, after so many months. </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #660000;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Today it is damp and raw and rainy, cold enough for a morning fire. </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #660000;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I've been busy this year, tending to my inner world that was rocked by the </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #660000;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">outer world </span></span><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: #660000;">and the new reality here in the United States. There is a lot to process. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: #660000;">My studio has been a sanctuary, and the act of creating a refuge. I've been quiet, </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: #660000;">and my work - or myself inside my work - has emerged a bit from the deep forest to </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: #660000;">stand at the edges. Open spaces beyond the trees are visible - distant ridges, fields </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: #660000;">and ponds. I've been spending a lot of time with the reflections of trees and skies in </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: #660000;">water, and experimenting a bit with white watercolors. </span> </span></div>
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<span style="color: #660000;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">She watched the day unfold with one cracked eye as she snoozed on her perch. </span></span></div>
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Valeriannahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02621130622153365184noreply@blogger.com38tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6482310772862064470.post-32148329403613039612016-05-06T22:41:00.000-04:002017-05-02T14:22:12.510-04:00A Space to Breathe<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<span style="color: #990000;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Rainy, dark days have taken root for a week now, the forest is murky, holding tight to shadows gathered at the trunks of drooping conifer boughs.<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"> </span>Fires burn in winter-worn hearths, the smoke settling low, unable to rise above </span></span></div>
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a kind of deep soul state while painting, the desire to let everything else wait is strong. With the cold weather coming, wood to be put in and the usual responsibilities of life and teaching<span style="font-size: small;">, tasks cannot be put off. </span></span></span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="color: #990000;"><span> </span></span></span></span></div>
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tree-worlds, good to have at least some time for it. I had so much time
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<span style="color: #990000;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">magical. Walks up the road are slow to soak in the fire of autumn. </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #990000;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">tapestry of rusting colors covers the hillsides and I find myself gasping </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #990000;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">I remember stating clearly to a small circle of kindred souls, </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #990000;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">that what I desire most is </span></span><span style="color: #990000;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">to simplify, to create more time for dreaming </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #990000;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">and being, and to be less on my own and more connected to others. </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #990000;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">In the last few years, deaths - actual and metaphoric - have left me much </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #990000;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">on my own. </span></span><span style="color: #990000;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="color: #990000;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">I trust that my season of letting go has gifts for me - </span></span>the wisdom </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #990000;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">of deep, strong roots and a knowledge of the dark earth underneath, and </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #990000;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">maybe some truth yet unknown. Instead of simplifying, the need to bring in </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #990000;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">ever these last few months. I do hope that there is a way to simplify, be, </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #990000;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">dream and create more, and to find my way out of my hermitage.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #990000;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> the small study </span></span><span style="color: #990000;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">that wanted more attention came into a larger painting</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #990000;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> and I find myself at the edge of the forest, not as much in the deep </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #990000;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> woodlands. As always, the small work allows me to explore many directions </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #990000;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> and to find my way back into the creative process. </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #990000;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Rhu is a bit of a distraction in the studio, running </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #990000;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">in and out through the hanging screens, wanting me </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #990000;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">to go out to the forest on beautiful, autumn days. </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #990000;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">heating, his visits will be to warm up by the stove, </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #990000;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">and not jump up on the drying paintings. </span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #990000; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">the story of an exceptionally challenging winter: deep, deep snow, arctic cold, </span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #990000; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">them from </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #990000; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">the river, listening to frogs and birds and the gentle ringing of Japanese </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #990000; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Temple bells in </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #990000; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">the Medicine Garden is replenishing the places that felt hollowed </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #990000; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">and emptied. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #990000; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">actually wasn't that long ago!) I just got </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #990000; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">them back from my photographer and </span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #990000; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Deep in the forest, on a moonlit winter night, I am </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #990000; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">curled under </span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #990000; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">wool and </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #990000; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">down, a young cat curled </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #990000; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">into me, dreaming. I sometimes</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #990000; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"> wonder if he dreams inside my dreams, or me inside his. </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #990000; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"> </span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #990000; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">to take a look, go <i><a href="https://www.etsy.com/shop/RavenWoodStudios?ref=hdr_shop_menu">HERE</a></i>. </span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #990000; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">my gratitude for the space is deep. If you are new to here, you might </span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #990000; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">did at </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #990000; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">first. Its taking him a lot longer to adjust to coming inside, </span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #990000; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">After not having painted in such a long while due to the lack of </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #990000; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">heat </span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #990000; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">for a lesson which never was), I whisked him off to the Emergency </span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #990000; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">of kitty names. Lately, he's been </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #990000; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">going </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #990000; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">by Sir One-Sock due to </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #990000; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">his neatly </span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #990000; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Rhu Bear is a cat that likes to climb and climb and climb... waaaay up in trees... and </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #990000; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">I found someone else and then parts needed to </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #990000; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">be ordered and a week of waiting </span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #990000; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">and now, finally, the parts are here and next week </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #990000; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">I should have heat! </span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #990000; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">The lights are flickering and the snow continues to fall. I had more to share, but </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #990000; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">We've been visited by the deer of late,</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #990000; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">and the slow transformation of plants is a wonder to behold. </span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #990000; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">and had some pointers from Velma over at<i> <a href="http://velmabolyard.blogspot.com/">Wake Robin</a>, </i>and, of </span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #990000; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">while walking outside - there is </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #990000; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">a perfectly respectable marmelade cat in her car </span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #990000; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">and </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #990000; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">I will have a nice little kitty visit and say the kitty isn't mine. I told the universe - </span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #990000; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">and everyone else that was suggesting I go in search of a cat - </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #990000; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">that I was NOT looking </span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #990000; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">for a cat, but that if a little Maine Coon showed up on </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #990000; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">my doorstep, I would </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #990000; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">take </span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #990000; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">it as a sign that this was my next kitty. So when I looked </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #990000; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">into the cat carrier </span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #990000; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">in the car, just steps away from my doorstep, and saw this little </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #990000; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">mini Pasha cat </span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #990000; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Outside, the gardens are overflowing with bees and flowers and the front door </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #990000; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">hosts a wonderful collection of moths. Much to Rhu Bears delight, the moths </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #990000; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: small;">Many moons have passed since last I wrote! I didn't wander off into the forest, </span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #990000; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: small;">never to be found again, or spirited away </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #990000; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: small;">by </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #990000; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: small;">faeries... no, I am here. I am </span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #990000; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: small;">quite well, in fact, better than I've been </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #990000; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: small;">in a few years. </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #990000; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: small;">My health is better, </span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #990000; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: small;">this summer. </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #990000; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: small;">A few new pieces emerged that feel good to me. Not sure if </span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #990000; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">I received from a local </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #990000; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">corporation. New siding to replace old, rotting shingles, </span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #990000; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">a drain under the house so no pond forms in heavy rain, new entrance stairs, </span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #990000; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">a new downstairs bamboo floor (!!!!) and varioius other wonderful gifts including </span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #990000; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">a new gas cookstove and a backup heater so I might be able to go away in winter! </span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #990000; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">every </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #990000; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">weekday and various projects I am undertaking alongside them. My usual quiet </span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #990000; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">flowing! With the completion of the bamboo floor downstairs this week, and a </span></div>
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Valeriannahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02621130622153365184noreply@blogger.com19tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6482310772862064470.post-18134051566067342062014-05-04T22:13:00.001-04:002014-05-04T22:13:22.623-04:00Exploring Small Worlds<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #990000; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">I suppose I'm not too surprised by the dark and moody paintings that have come </span><div>
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<br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #990000; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">If you've been following my blog for a while, you probably know that I re-enter </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #990000; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">warming up my wash technique. The photo below gives a sense of scale, I </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #990000; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">hope, the smalles work in the lower left corner is just about 3" x5", about </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #990000; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Though I haven't been in the studio working since December, I found </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #990000; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">a flow again immediately. This is not to say that I am satisfied with each piece, no, </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #990000; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">but </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #990000; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">with </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #990000; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">each, I learn something about where I am, what wants to be said on </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #990000; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">a large </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #990000; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">scale and what needs attention in my technique. I appreciate many of the small </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #990000; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">explorations in their own right, but enjoy the challenge of working larger and </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #990000; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">the visual impact the large forest paintings have on a space. When I get a few </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #990000; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">logistics worked out in the studio, I will begin a series of very large forests. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #990000; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">(not quite this orange, I don't think) </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #990000; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">It was just the first wash layer until today, </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #990000; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">when I worked most of the afternoon </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #990000; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">on the trees. It may still need one small tree </span><br />
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Valeriannahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02621130622153365184noreply@blogger.com45tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6482310772862064470.post-51303247016934209312014-03-29T22:23:00.000-04:002014-03-29T22:28:33.659-04:00Tending to Stillness<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #990000; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">The wild ones must be sensing my need for creature companions as I have almost</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #990000; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">nightly visits from the owl and a pair of raccoons who pick through the fallen birdseed</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #990000; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">for treats. I quietly open the back door and step out onto the stones to greet the </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #990000; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">One evening, a pre-teen mouse kept me company in the living room. Darting </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #990000; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">come. Without a cat around, the mice have become quite bold, but this </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #990000; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">sweet </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #990000; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">family after the evening forage. I put him down on the snow, expecting him to </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #990000; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">bolt away, but he stood </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #990000; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">frozen there, looking up at me. It crossed my mind that </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #990000; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">he might not have been </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #990000; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">the smartest mouse around, when, in turning to go inside, </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #990000; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">I noticed the owl on </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #990000; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">her perch. Hmmmm. A moment of decision, wondering if I </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #990000; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">should move the mouse. </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #990000; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">I like mice - all creatures, really - but I'm also clear that </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #990000; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">life eats life. My moment </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #990000; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">of hesitation was enough, and I turned to see the owl </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #990000; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">swoop down from her perch and</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #990000; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"> whisk the mouse away into the trees just steps from where I stood. It was both </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #990000; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">heartwrenching and amazing... life. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #990000; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">describes my state is frozen, like the land, waiting for some new cycle to </span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #990000; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">I have drawn people since I was a small child, but it has been many years since </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #990000; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">people have made it into my paintings. They find their way into drawings, like </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #990000; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">the </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #990000; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">root </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #990000; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">people </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #990000; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">drawings - but not into other work. I think because I imagine the landscapes </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #990000; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">I </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #990000; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">paint to be what I am walking inside, and want to wander only in </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #990000; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">the wildest </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #990000; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">of </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #990000; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">places </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #990000; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">on the edge of mystery. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #990000; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">As I write, the rain is pouring down, a shift from the endless frozenness of these </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #990000; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">last months. Spring Equinox was a day of ice, rain, sun and then snow as if the </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #990000; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Storms. Snow, sleet, and then rain the past week. </span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #990000; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">I was moved by the outpouring of emails and your heartfelt words </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #990000; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">and </span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #990000; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">who have just wandered by and read the news. </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #990000; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">It is lovely to feel so supported by folks I have never met, or who </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #990000; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">have never commented here, but felt they must now. I felt </span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #990000; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">somewhat shocked out of my own grieving, when, a dear </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #990000; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">friend who has been a rock of support through my recent grievings,</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #990000; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"> had the most horrible loss of all - </span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #990000; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">the </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #990000; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">death of her son in an accident. </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #990000; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Just as I began to feel </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #990000; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">a shifting towards a place of grounding, the shocking </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #990000; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">call came, and off to her side I flew, to be a support, </span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #990000; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">present, Pasha. The many months of coming </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #990000; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">to terms with this coming transition, </span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #990000; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">the bone-deep grieving in anticipation, </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #990000; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">has lessened the pain, but the loss is enormous.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #990000; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">him here with me. I have had a lot of support. </span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #990000; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">I feel deeply grateful for having been chosen by this wild spirit as his human. </span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #990000; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Maybe someday I will tell that story - of how we came together - but not now. This </span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #990000; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">I am deeply grateful for the wild and free life you shared with me, </span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #990000; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">I feel your spirit flying free. </span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #990000; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Blessed blessed be. </span></div>
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Valeriannahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02621130622153365184noreply@blogger.com114tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6482310772862064470.post-81170861384993386972014-01-06T19:11:00.000-05:002014-01-06T20:36:08.456-05:00Winter Light<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #990000; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">I've been gone from here... gone down into my roots and out into the wintry forest</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #990000; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">where the creaking and cracking breaks the quiet and the snow squeaks underfoot </span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #990000; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">from the frigid air. There is deep stillness in the forest, and no turning away </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #990000; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">from </span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #990000; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">the fragility of life. Blood on the snow and late night yips of coyotes tell tales </span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #990000; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">of winter survival. </span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #990000; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">I haven't been in the studio, either, taking time away for my father's Christmas </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #990000; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">visit and supporting Pasha through another emergency vet visit to get things </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #990000; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">moving along his internal pipeline. After his second visit to the ER, I </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #990000; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">really thought </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #990000; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">he wasn't going to make it</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #990000; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">. But the holistic vet sent a new bunch of Chinese herbs, </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #990000; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">and put him on a pill that he said works wonders for elder kitties, and miraculously,</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #990000; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">my father and I watched Pasha grow stronger day by day. Outside we trudged for </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #990000; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">several daily walks, to the studio and back, even in the biting cold. Two weeks </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #990000; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">since his last crisis, he seems more stable than in a long while. I am his alchemist, </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #990000; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">adding powdered herbs and homeopathic remedies to his food and drizzling cod </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #990000; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">liver oil over the top which he now won't eat without. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #990000; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">In late December the forest was full of bobcats, </span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #990000; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">rest. It was an interesting review of almost a year's worth of work. </span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #990000; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">I had a small, but steady stream of visitors. I was busy answering questions, </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #990000; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">doing a painting </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #990000; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">demo and packaging up sales, and I completely forgot </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #990000; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">to take </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #990000; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">has been seen by </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #990000; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">you all here, folks on Facebook, and friends who have </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #990000; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">number of small sales </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #990000; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">helps a lot to get through the dry month before school </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #990000; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">My students this semester produced some wonderful work. Yesterday was the last </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #990000; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">day of classes - a somewhat grueling day of final critiques, and a messy commute to </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #990000; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">get there. The first photos are final artist's boosk from my 2-D Design and Color class, </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #990000; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">The good news is that we found an alternative vet, one who does acupuncture </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #990000; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">and </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #990000; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">wise soul. We got a last minute appointment and ran over there. Pasha had acupuncture </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #990000; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">and was given a homeopathic remedy and Chinese herb powder to put </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #990000; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">He responded really </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #990000; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">well to the acupuncture and by the time we got home he was eating like a horse, </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #990000; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">relaxed and more content and happy than he'd been in months. He's </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #990000; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">I'm quiet today... as the cold stillness settles into the forest, the last of the golden </span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #990000; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">of late </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #990000; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">October and early November. I imagine soon there will be a shift in the work in </span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #990000; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"> in </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #990000; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">process<b style="font-style: italic;"> <a href="http://ravenwoodforest.blogspot.com/2013/10/a-glorioius-glow-in-forest.html">here</a> </b>in case you're interested in seeing </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #990000; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">how things develop. </span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #990000; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">The painting below, along with a number of other small watercolors, are now </span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #990000; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">listed in my Etsy Shop. The galleries I work with don't seen interested in smaller </span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #990000; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">works these days, so I am able to offer the small work at very affordable prices. </span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #990000; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">A number of people have asked about purchasing work over the last few months, </span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #990000; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">the Etsy showcase down below</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #990000; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"> there in the sidebar and follow the link!</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #990000; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Pasha is really showing his elder years with this season's cold temperatures. He is </span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #990000; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">changing. He may decide he might like to follow my mother to the other </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #990000; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">side soon. </span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #990000; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Its a lot of grief to stack on top of the other, and sometimes my heart just breaks. </span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #990000; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">So, Cat, email me at valerianna at verizon dot net and</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #990000; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">And, on a final note, its looking a lot like this around here:</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #990000; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">I finished stacking wood yesterday (though with another cord </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #990000; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">I would </span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #990000; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">I'll ignore the piles and piles of </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #990000; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">leaves that need to be moved for now, 'cause </span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #990000; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">the oak leaves are still </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #990000; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">hanging on</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #990000; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">... and go </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #990000; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">dream with paint and brush </span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #990000; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">and some magical </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #990000; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">music to set the scene. And maybe I'll convince </span></div>
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<br />Valeriannahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02621130622153365184noreply@blogger.com30tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6482310772862064470.post-8420853630137074222013-10-18T17:47:00.001-04:002013-10-18T17:47:33.667-04:00A Glorioius Glow in the Forest<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #990000; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">The turning beech leaves infuse the forest with the most astounding golden </span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #990000; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">glow. I can hardly contain myself as I wander in the forest, gasping at every turn... </span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #990000; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">the </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #990000; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">lines from a song running around inside me as I overflow with joy at the </span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #990000; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">miraculous </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #990000; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">color. How can I keep from singing? In the studio, I attempt to capture </span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #990000; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">something of the color and feeling of this autumnal magnificence. </span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #990000; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">October completes another year of life for me, as yesterday was my 50th birthday, </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #990000; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">and also a year since my mother's death on the 16th. As I deepen into myself, </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #990000; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">I feel the completion of an intense cycle. A few months after my mother's death, </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #990000; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">forest. The richness of this shift for me is profound, and continues to offer </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #990000; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Clearly the colors of the autumn forest have infused my work, </span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #990000; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">yesterday I turned and </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #990000; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">looked out the </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #990000; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">back door of the studio </span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #990000; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">There is still plenty of magic to be found if I bend down and look inside things,</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #990000; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Some flowers have gone to seed, </span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #990000; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">artist, mask maker and ritual performer came to the studio to share her wonderful </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #990000; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">creations. A few folks gathered to see a collection of Lauren's masks and to listen </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #990000; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">her amazing creations. See her web site <b><i><a href="http://laurenraine.com/">here</a></i></b>, her beautiful blurb book on her Masks of the Goddess project <b><i><a href="http://www.blurb.com/b/504345-the-masks-of-the-goddess">here</a></i></b> and her blog post on her visit, <i><b><a href="http://threadsofspiderwoman.blogspot.com/2013/08/ravenwood-forest.html">here</a></b></i>. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #990000; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Lauren now lives in Arizona, but for many years, lived not far north of here in Vermont. We </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #990000; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">met originally through our blogs, but soon discovered that we have many people in </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #990000; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">common. It was wonderful to have her here to share her masks and to walk with </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #990000; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">her in the forest that she had come to know a little in photographs. Lauren's masks are very powerful and travel around the country to be used </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #990000; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">by performance groups. She is </span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #990000; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">I took most of August off from the studio enjoying a nice long visit from my </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #990000; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">warm, sunny with low humidity. Though I wasn't in the studio, I completed a </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #990000; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Woodland Garden. With stone from the neighbor's stone pit and several trips to </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #990000; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Eventually, smaller river stones will fill more of the cracks along with mosses and </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #990000; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">for small stones. The transformation of this area from mostly post-construction sandy </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #990000; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">and though it is loud and inescapable, it seems soothing and grounding to walk in </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #990000; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Truly a magical August at RavenWood - I settled into a peaceful flow, forced myself </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #990000; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">to take weeks off to restore and renew before my teaching year resumed. I did </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #990000; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">a newsfast, was only on the computer for short stints, and spent most of the month </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #990000; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">outside working, or sitting in the filtered sunlight under the big beech, sipping <i><b><a href="http://synergydrinks.com/index.php/products#enlightened-kombucha/enlightened-kombucha-organic-raw-kombucha-botanic-no-3">kombucha </a></b></i>and </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #990000; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">allowing the humming cricket sounds to do whatever magic it does. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #990000; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">These are joyful, slow days in the forest. <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lammas"><i>Lammas</i></a>, the first harvest festival in </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #990000; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">the pagan wheel of the year, brings a celebration of flowers to my garden. Deep </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #990000; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">in the forest, the green, filtered light is extraordinary and the mosses gleam with </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #990000; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">the </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #990000; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">abundance of moisture this season. I watch as light creeps over branches, </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #990000; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">streams through leaves and illuminates one small spot on a tree. In a moment, </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #990000; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">it fades and travels on, finding its way over the canopy and as far beneath as </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #990000; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">the branches allow. Dark and damp and mysterious places remain hidden, even </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #990000; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">while the fields are aglow with goldenrod and all seems revealed. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #990000; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">In the studio, I feel the mystery seeping into my work with ghostly trees and </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #990000; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">the magical, green light of ferns and mosses. My production has slowed, as </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #990000; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">I have a clearer sense of my process with this new work. I understand what </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #990000; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">is possible with technique and open to the infinite-seeming possibilities of image. </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #990000; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">I love that there seems so much to explore with this work, I can trust that it </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #990000; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">and bees and butterflies dance in my small clearing, I come to a moment of pause. </span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #990000; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Having made a huge amount of work in the studio, and finished nearly all the </span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #990000; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">like a flowering plant having put all the energy towards the flower, and now that </span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #990000; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">it blooms, there is a pause before the energy begins to sink again towards the </span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #990000; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">woodland garden, and Pasha and I find shady spots to be still and drink in the </span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #990000; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">abundance of the year. </span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #990000; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">If you'd enjoy a peek at a sampling of the new work all together, visit my art web </span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #990000; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">site at <i><a href="http://www.valerieclaff.com/">www.valerieclaff.com</a></i> I've been uploading much of the new work there and </span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #990000; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">find it interesting to look at in a group. </span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #990000; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Its a perfect moment for visits from friends and family this week and </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #990000; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">next - a </span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #990000; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">the forest and the colors, shapes and forms of high summer - a perfect moment </span><br />
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