Installation in Jax

This is a long overdue post. Now that the moving has transpired and I am settling in, I had time to organize images from the installation I did at Nullspace Gallery before I left. It was a crazed week of building, printing, painting, worrying, packing, and recruiting the help of Sarah, Hal, and Joe to help me pull the whole thing off...not to mention a lovely dinner delivered in the midst of it all by Cam. So, thanks to all for that.

The title of the show was "All Things Near and Far" and it revolved around all things disaster-related.....big ones, little ones, personal disasters, emotional ones, trivial ones, and significant ones.......

Tree day.

A few days ago, I went out to Sugar Bottom near Lake Macbride to study trees. I didn't really think of it much, but I guess what I'm doing sort of feels like a little science experiment. Usually, I compose images, draw the whole, so to speak. Lately, though I have decided to study one thing at a time....to take some time with an individual thing in the spaces I observe...a flower, a plant, a tree...Drawing feels a bit like meditating lately. I like that. It is just such an great intense period of focus like no other part of my day. Someone once said that drawing is like "physical empathy." I could not put it any better.