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The Thinking Place Sleeps |
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Sleep tight, little hut. |
An Artist Looks Inside the Universe of Being
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The Thinking Place Sleeps |
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Sleep tight, little hut. |
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Front of the hut in the field after the 6th snowfall-11.20.2014 |
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Testing the suppleness of a maple seedling for a roof support |
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Sawing the seedling for an arched support |
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Trying unsuccessfully to bend the third roof support-10.26.2014 |
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The third branch support cracks-10.26.2014 |
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Third and fourth branch supports added for the roof and sides 10.31.2014 |
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Building up the back and sides 11.3.2014 |
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Sticks rising up the back and sides 11.5.2014 |
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Back view-11.10.2014 |
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Back view-11.11.2014 |
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Front view-11.13.2014 |
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Back view after 2nd snowfall-11.14.2014 |
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Front view after the 2nd snowfall-11.14.2014 |
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Cecelia inside the ancient maple, oil on canvas_8.5" x 14"_2014 |
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Inside the guts of an ancient maple |
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Squeezed inside an ancient maple–hallowed straight out to the other side |
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Nestling against twisted bark |
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Lying along a fallen trunk |
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My head behind a fallen body |
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Giving my arm to a limbless trunk |
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Growing my arm from a stump |
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Etta in her "pet parka" with extra velcro tab I sewed to the back end. I'm tempted to get her "mutt-luks" for her paws |
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The start of the snow flurries from my upstairs front window |
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Snow building up on the raspberry canes. Flurries thick in the air. |
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Studded snow tires for my little Scion XB |
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snow shovel is ready |
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A serious windshield scraper is ready–(I used to use a credit card in Atlanta to remove ice) |
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Purchased clothes: warm slacks, wool blend socks, tight knit ski hat, down vest, full insulated underwear, wooly lined slippers, and deep-tread-waterproof-puffy-interior hiking boots |
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Ready! |
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The Thinking Place facing Northwest with two sugar maple saplings as support bones |
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Two ideal curved maple saplings growing in the lower field |
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I saw down sapling number 1 |
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Sawing down sapling number 2 |
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Pulling the sapling over the rock wall up the hill to the site |
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Testing the arch of sapling number 2 at the Thinking Place site |
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Positioning sapling number 1-harder than it looks! |
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Positioning sapling number 2 |
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View of support bones facing East-left side with too gradual a slope. The branch would not curve symmetrically. |
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Tying the two arched supports with twine |
“Grace Descends Upon the Chaos” Acrylic on canvas painting in Art under Lockdown Gilmore Gallery, Peacham, VT, October & November, 2020
“How Am I Feeling Today?1-89 Days” 89 Embroidered, quilted and laser printed self-portraits on vintage family handkerchiefs in She is Here, The Atlanta Contemporary, Atlanta, GA, August 2020 - January 2021
“Pastel Pandemic” Acrylic on canvas in Linked in NYC-Women of the World. Tribeca, NYC, April, 2020. Postponed because of Covid-19. New dates TBD.
"Pastel Pandemic &Grace Descends Upon the Chaos", 8”X10” photoprints of Covid-19 paintings in walk-by window gallery show in Sheltering in Place, Sycamore Place Gallery, Decatur, GA, May 22-June, 2020
“Grace Descends Upon the Chaos", Acrylic on silk mounted to canvas in While You Were Out, Vermont Studio Center Gallery Windows, Johnson, VT, June 16, 2020 until reopening of VSC.
“Pastel Pandemic & Grace Descends Upon the Chaos", Acrylic paintings on canvas in Shelter in Place, SPA Happenings Online, Barre VT, June 5-August 14, 2020
“A Year of Forgetting”, 12 Acrylic on canvas paintings at UVM Medical Center, Burlington, VT, September 2019-January 2020
“A Year of Forgetting” 12 Acrylic paintings on canvas at The Garage Cultural Center, Montpelier, VT, September 2019