Running the darkness in...

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Mixed Media
5" x 5"

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Mixed Media
5" x 5"

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Mixed Media
5" x 5" 

Fall runs in the Puget Sound carry with them all of the poignancy and drama of their transitional place between the naked freedom of a Northwest Summer, and the glittering glow of Fall's monastic sister, Winter. The images of running darkness in - from day to dusk to quiet night - is what inspires much of my work.  Transition. Contrast. What is left and what is taken.  What is found and what is given.  The emotional imprint of moving through the world. 

Here is a little verse I wrote last night after a particularly beautiful run that fed into these tiny paintings today:

Gold leaves, medallion faces
Shine up, whispering the way.
I run the darkness in,
The sun a seam beneath the grey.
The purple sky behind me,
Folds a darting cat into her sleeve- the flashing glow of taillights, a distant orange-red beat. 
A perfect run- 
a gift - a dream.
5 minutes or a lifetime - 
to move, to live, to breathe.

Homage

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Mixed Media on Paper
5"x5"

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Mixed Media on Paper
5" x 5"

Fall begins and as the rains start and the days shorten, time expands and the Harvest Moon hangs in the sky.  As I explore this series of miniature works on paper with printmaking, painting and collage - slowly finding the rhythm of making within the rain - core motifs return to speak.  Moon, landscape, bird.  These are the voices of inside.  The voices of always but particularly now - this Fall of large moons, flocking birds, and grey skies striped with the armatures of trees.  Here we are.