watercolor/collage 132 as it looked a few minutes ago, when i stopped working for the day.
1:36 PM: after moving all that stuff around to clear space in the studio, then working more on watercolor/collage 132, i ran out of steam. i’m undecided as to whether or not to cut this one up so i can use the pieces in my next collage and i’m too fuzzy right now to make that kind of decision, so i think i’ll just leave it as is, take it back to the house & look at it tonight, and make my decision tomorrow morning when i’m fresh. it’s rather early to stop working, but you have to listen to your body. so mikela will come over soon & together we’ll do more work on reorganizing the studio.
at work moments ago on watercolor/collage 132
1 PM: after doing some re-organizing in the studio, in prep for a much bigger re-org that will take place over the next month or so, i dove in to watercolor/collage 132, which i started yesterday. once i’m done, i’ll decide whether or not this is a candidate for being cut up to use in a collage. that should happen in the next hour or so.
that’s matcha tea you see in the white cup; an essential part of my daily process, which follows on the heals of my coffee. todays cup was something of an experiment. i had been getting 1 pound at a time of rather expensive yemeni roasted beans from a company that specializes in these exquisite beans from the birthplace of coffee. they are hard to access and thus rather expensive. i had been mixing one teaspoon of them in with the ethiopian unroasted beans, which i get from sweetmarias.com and roast myself. i decided to give that a break and use the ethiopian beans exclusively, creating a different mix every morning. the kick we get from including even that small amount of the yemeni beans is being replaced, as mikela commented this morning, by a more subtle flavor, which we both like a lot.
9:07 AM: as i prepare to go to my studio and start work on a new watercolor/collage, i see the morning light flooding our house and give gratitude. the quality of clear, warm fall light here in crestone/baca is unique; the silence profound.
tuning in to this environment is an inseparable part of the paintings i make every day, which could not be done anywhere else. as well, we are surrounded daily by people of different traditions meditating round the clock, culturing the silence of this place, adding silence to the existing silence creating a cacophony of silence, entering your body and fine tuning it’s frequencies second by second. this new series of watercolor/collages reflect that rumbling, silent cacophony.