Heavenly bodies, paper collage, 2020 your peace is tide spotless like warm rain sends out roots invents prophets invents poets invents a grim, impossible fate like rebirth, this too, is inevitable overhead, a second sun cracks, runs golden unties its strings & waits
Tag: art
This must be the place.
This must be the place, paper collage, 2020 This post is formatted to reflect an original journal entry. 11/10/20 Had a significant insight into my own creative process. It happened on Sunday morning, as I was having coffee and reading one of John Muir’s Wilderness Essays. Experienced a flood of positive emotions as I was [...]
The Yellow Desert Poems
The Yellow Desert, paper collage, 2020 i. the notion of being civilized is heightened by shadows an infinite crust of time a sense of music to hold onto at the center of dawn, earth cries —is vibrant, mellow, happy we are the bystanders relics of liquid freedom ii. the mind breathes in strange waves dense [...]
Scenes From Inside the Gold Mine
The Cave I had a difficult time naming this post. That's probably because I wasn't sure how to tie these collages together (and I couldn't bring myself to use Postcards From a World That Never Happened twice). Portraits from a...Pictures from a...Scenes from a... Funny. Every time the phrase Scenes from a... popped into my [...]
Postcards From a World That Never Happened
I went into last weekend with big ambitions. I had a list of blog posts to work on, lines of poetry that needed honing, expanding, art that needed making. And as it often happens when I've got multiple projects to work on, I spent two days bouncing back and forth between them all and completing [...]
The Crossing
someone lives here on the other side of the valley longing for horses, interstates silicone cathedrals and other streams of lost sensation. in the mirror, real life seems impossible. intense, erotic and spiraling like a swollen river. he peers out, another object in a room, somewhere in borrowed space, leaping and dancing with soft delight. [...]
Nostalgia
Before We Grow Old nostalgia no more than longing for words The Pilgrimage
Hour of the Sun
under the hour of the sun it is said, we once again connect our ancient souls with the dawn red deserts & midsummer highways all that is green, no all that is treacherous & golden frantic like a subterranean storm do you hear the birds retreating? the slim dry dawn slips over our shoulders we [...]
Modern Exploration I & II
I got a fresh batch of 1970s-1990s National Geographic magazines in last week and finally made some time to rifle through them. These collages, titled "Modern Exploration I & II," were assembled on a two-page ad for the 1998 Chevy Tahoe. Modern Exploration I Modern Exploration II
The Invitation
My latest experiment in collage art: "The Invitation".
