My sketchbooks are chock full of drawings of natural phenomena: logs caught in a stream, bird's nests, cells magnified 2500 times by the scanning electron microscope, rock formations, trees hanging tenaciously to nearly bare rock, great blue herons, twisted thistles, driftwood fragments, seeds picked up on a walk, shells found at ocean's edge, organic shadows from plants, striated stones or weathered bones. My studio also is cluttered with nature's "treasures" I have found. Their forms and systems are mysteriously designed through eons of evolutionary processes. For me the natural world is an amazing phenomenon. |
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As I closely observe the natural world, it speaks to me about so much of life-
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UPCOMING EXHIBITIONS Crossings at Carnegie, Zumbrota, MN. January 3 - Feb. 15, 2009 |
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"Becoming Lace" lithograph/monotype |
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"Moeraki Rocks II" hand-colored lithograph |
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"Out of the Old Come the Young" lithograph/monotype |
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