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Friday, August 31, 2012

come Lilith, follow the red/orange path from the sea of chaotic patriarchy with us...

                                                                                           ©Greg Patch
taken at Wrightsville Beach, NC this morning as the Sun rose, shining the light for Lilith
to be, with us...

Thursday, August 30, 2012

in the works 8/30/12


have used in the label section for each blog below "rusted metal" free/ly as the pigments I'm using are oxides. 
scale: find tablespoon

Tuesday, August 28, 2012

"dotswriting" series on exhibit at ArtExposure, Hampstead, NC

 "dotswriting" series #1 - #16, #19 - #27 and #29 - #44 are on exhibit at ArtExposure in Hampstead, NC. Numbers 17 & 18 turned up missing and are possessed by some one's idea of liberation. May they be enJoyed from their experience. # 28 was sold and hangs in a stand up home... 
Below is more of the story of them.
"dotswriting"...writing dots writing dots .......writing, journaling with color dots
"dotswriting"...writing dots writing dots .......writing, journaling with color dots 

The intention is to expand on “dot(s)writing” with creating journaling expressions of visual experience as a calligraphy form. Expressing what I know and what I don't know. Each/all dot(s) representing a word, phrase, a tome, a momentary expression through time that constructs like alphabet on the written page. Each/all dot(s) is/are infinite in its/their possibilities within and without it/them self. Color, line, form within and without each/all dot wholisticly. The dot and the space around the dot. The all of dot(s)/space(s) together as the story expands with the page(s) of journaling.
purchase many of the pages of "dotswriting" and rearrange them every so often like the word messages chips on your refridgerator, bathtub, city hall, send one or them to friends, secret enemies (7th house) along ley lines, gift them to prisoners, the Prez/girl or guy next door, if you wish buy them all, get one and reverse it, tear it up and use as thumbnails in the same way, or just frame it and enJoy. Get a deck and use them like Tarot/Angel.divination cards, etc. etc.... be imaginative with them, or write your own!

search on this blog "dotswriting" to see images of the "dotswriting" along with my writing about them. the url of each page the "dotswriting" are at will help us recognize the ones you are interested in.
Trade them, barter them, use them as $70.00 bills with interest!

Monday, August 27, 2012

82612 1 & 2


82612 1             7" x 7"          mixed materials
82612 2             7" x 7"          mixed materials
mixed materials;
og wheat flour
sea salt
water
earth pigments (ochres)
kale stems
green tape


Sunday, August 26, 2012

Dawn breaks through the darkness...

                                                                                          ©Greg Patch
                            

Dawn breaks through the darkness...
                                                                                                            ©Greg Patch

Saturday, August 25, 2012

Earth & Water in flexible precision...

Earth & Water in flexible precision...
Sun is in Virgo, Moon is in Sag then Cap tomorrow, Mars Scorpio, Mercury in Leo passing
thru its 3 decant toward Virgo and Venus in Cancer...

Friday, August 24, 2012

bird heart spirit

bird heart spirit                  7 1/2" x 7"             mixed materials


mixed materials;
og wheat flour
sea salt
water
earth pigments (ochres)
og red cabbage
og purple onion

Tuesday, August 21, 2012

uprooted webh

uprooted webh                           digital                                ©Greg Patch

Sunday, August 19, 2012

Green Swamp Preserve | The Nature Conservancy

the Green Swamp is on the NC coastal plain. 
http://www.nature.org/ourinitiatives/regions/northamerica/unitedstates/northcarolina/placesweprotect/green-swamp-preserve.xml
http://www.nature.org/newsfeatures/se20coastal20brochure2.pdf (map feature)
working with the plants, other healing energetics and the geometries/features of the land I drove south  yesterday on 17 and cut northwest following the Great Serpent Mound Lei toward Pilot Mt in NC, the biome center of this region. [Peter Champoux "Gaia Matrix"]. this lei line continues on to the Great Serpent Mounds site in Ohio and onward... 
in terms of Earth Anatomy swamp is a cleansing filtration system. parallel to our own anatomical digestive spleen, kidney, lung, lymph, balancing digestion & venous circulatory, etc. with the amount of oxygenation that occurs in swamp it is related to our lung/liver/spleen meridian. many plants from swamp are specific to these organs in medicinal and energetic medicine treatments for the land and their reflective partners the animals, other plants, Sun, Moon, Vesta, the all of inner/outer of our universe. I intended to be aligned with the New Moon Leo and Venus/thyroid, kidneys venous circulation, the acid-alkaline balance in the body/ and digestion. Venus in Cancer/water is a time to gently rinse/flush the digestive tract.
just a few miles from the Conservancy sign I stopped to visit roadside plant colonies. I kept to the roadside, it is part of the sacredness of wildcrafting/foraging to not trespass properties. here I met with a plant similar in appearance to Sweetfern Comptonia peregrina. it lacks the aroma and pungency of Sweetfern and has a slightly bitter sweet taste (astringent). the plant's presence here assures me of its usefulness in place, it's application at this point is enfolding with my understanding of it. 
I reunioned with Boneset Eupatorium perfoliatum and Queen of the Prairie Filipendula rubra.  Boneset is strongly emetic, promotes sweating/reduces heat/decongests stagnation, promotes and strengthens digestion and apetite. Queen of the Prairie is astringent, cooling, analgesic, vulnerary and is high in salicylic acid (aspirin), tannins and silica.
Green Swamp is also home several carnivorous fauna not found anywhere else; Venus Fly Dionaea muscipula and Pitcher's Plant Nepenthes sp. among them. 
there were also seeds that attached to me. I retraced my step and couldn't find their source. Seed is a great symbolism for starting new projects and keeping with mind/heart all the caregiving involved with our seeds! I was also foraging for reeds and grasses to use in making my artwork and marked those accessible resources.  
at Council I drove ENE to Atkinson where we celebrated Solstice '11; 
http://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=7129950254661110611#editor/target=post;postID=5744179338876079026 
and the germination of the collaborative "progr(c)essing transformation". These blog entries can be found by searching progr(c)essing transformation on this blog.
then SSE home to Wilmington disecting the triangle mapped below. 

photo/mapping ©Peter Champoux

peace, love and co-creativity is the mantra for today's work...Green Blessings to all...




Saturday, August 18, 2012

my foot


my foot                     digital                    ©Greg Patch
this exciting podal print was done in the studio working on the "lavender trimmings webh" underpainting. this was washed off with warm water }no soap/heavy detergent} moments after this shot while cleaning up.
the hands and feet are four of the most absorbant places on our bodies for taking in healing with beneficial herbs, minerals, nutrients and energy. looking at what curative effects of the full spectrum of pigment color, with reds dominant, and the mineral oxides of the earth pigments on the "reflexology" points of the foot. these particularly red pigments would be filled with Iron, ie.  
yoginis and yogis would encourage me to develop grounding my 3 small digits! 

Thursday, August 16, 2012

creative and functioning sidewalk art

a series of photos of sidewalk art created for functional purposes (sidewalk craft?), i followed the path with intent to see where it would take me on my journey... the bamboo sidewalk art! wait, not done yet... more sidewalk art created as care for the infrastructure of this journey to be acknowledged and thanked by me on my way back to the studio with my sketches...
caution flag!/accept more open awareness...
-bamboo in my own work!-
the creativity of it appearing as I begin to focus more on the bamboos and reeds in my area for my functional/structural and my creative expression with these materials helps to assure me of this new path... 












Sunday, August 12, 2012


an invasive ground vine like has moved in the backyard. i've seen it around a lot here and have had
no success in researching what it is... it colonizes and feeds where the grass won't (companion plants displaying symbiosis) and climbs deadwood/seeking it out, mineral distribution in the ground soil and the various plants' roles in recycling the various levels of soil nutrition, patterns of artistic grace...

appears to be a Bindweed sp., the three lobed leaf is atypical
of any of the Bindweeds I've seen up to now...

Saturday, August 11, 2012

Friday, August 10, 2012

eye of the coffee

eye of the coffee                         digital                          ©Greg Patch


Thursday, August 9, 2012

flaked paint sketches

these flakes are set with areas securely lifting off the paper surface @1".
the paper is an elephant dung, no acid, cardpaper.

flaked paint sketch      11" x 8"         elephant dung cardpaper

flaked paint sketch      11" x 8"         elephant dung cardpaper

flaked paint sketch      11" x 8"         elephant dung cardpaper

Tuesday, August 7, 2012

rust sleeping/dreaming

rust sleeping/dreaming              30" x 18" x 1 1/2"           mixed materials

mixed materials;
earth pigment
cardboard shipped box
butcher block paper
shipping slip
used green tape