Heat Wave

I spent yesterday in the Triangle area; Raleigh, Durham & Chapel Hill, NC. Temps there ranged from 104˚ - 106˚. Back in Wilmington, NC predictions for today are 102˚ and are predicted to be in the 90˚ range for the coming week. Toasty...
Lots of water and lemon/lime, salads, watermelon and other cooling foods, herbs and deep recesses of shade...
Be Well.

from http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/sotc/global/2012/5

Chakra Rising Wave Series 1 - 7

Took this shot yesterday of the installation of "Chakra Rising Wave Series 1 - 7" at Organic Yoga in Wilmington, NC. Thankyou(s) to Lorrie and Eric Wagner for the opportunity and for hanging them. 

Each panel w/loops on bamboo rods can be viewed more clearly on my archival website http://www.greenartstudio.com/galleryrising.html. I did these in 2008. They are 18" x 23" and done with beeswax and eco-friendly pigments on Khadi papers. This is the first time they have been hung for show vertically, thanks to the high ceilings at this wonderful yoga space.

"roots and seeds" (c)

grid Himalayan paper sheets are screwed down on masked recycled wood panels...

egg carton foundation for the arts to compost (two weeks in the compost)

Live Oak

Live Oak                                                                   ©Greg Patch

Went to tree

and asked 

"who am i?"

Tree replied

"you are this"

and enveloped me...

Sunset Grid

Sunset Grid                                                                   ©Greg Patch

recycled cloth hung to dry spiraling downward...

recycled canvas cloth hung to dry spiraling downward...

this is part of the same drop cloth that was in "egg carton foundation for the arts to compost". it was stored for several years in a dark closet. before creating "egg carton foundation for the arts (step 2)" I wanted to be sure this cloth was not the mold carrier and washed it in a "healthy detergent" (nci). My take is that; 

• the nature of egg carton is porous and dark inside. 
• my getting and leaving things too wet gave the mold a perfect supportive environment.
• the mold appeared during 2 - 3 days of very rainy, dark & humid weather that I described in earlier posts on the first attempt. 

So "bullet" "bullet" "bullet" = a few weeks of producing art work with nature...

"roots and seeds" (b)

this diptych "roots and seeds"  on my studio floor this morning is an emerging growth of "close up of a new". Named now "roots and seeds" is at http://bit.ly/KCYqOU, entered June 6, 2012

mounted on two semi-identical recycled furniture parts that mirror each other. These are taped and I will use recycled wood screws to tie this partially worked Himalayan grid paper to them.

"roots and seeds" with slices of a turmeric rhizome and a lily seed pod as core to each panel expression. Wheat paste has been drawn in to each panel, roots a grounded design and seeds that of the pod's expression of above dispersing to ground. It's a spring/summer time event.

egg carton foundation for the arts to compost (one week in the compost)

earlier posts with this project were on Jun 8, 9, 12 - 14 & 16, or search "egg carton foundation for the arts".

Summer Solstice 2012 w/Peach leaves

 Summer Solstice w/Peach leaves                     digital                              ©Greg Patch  

iPhoto enhanced dried, oranged and fallen Peach prunus sp. leaves I arranged to acknowledge this year's Summer Solstice 6/20/12. 
Summer Solstice occurs generally on Jun 20, once every four years. It occurs on the 21st the other 3 years.

Be with the Summer Solstice!


Nature came by today and rearranged the art work. below is a photo of of this new work. We're looking in the photo where the design in the Northerly direction is falling back toward the Equator....
                                

North

                                                               our place in Nature is magical

yellow

many artists' refer to yellow as being the most difficult color to work with. some of this difficulty they say is the physical lower strength/intensity of the pigments in the yellow range.  

from: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yellow

"The word "yellow" comes from the Old English geolu, or geolwe which derived from the Proto-Germanic word gelwaz.^[3]According to the Oxford English Dictionary, the oldest known use of this word in English is from The Epinal Glossary in the year 700.^[4]

In the English language, yellow has traditionally been associated with jaundice and cowardice.^[5] Yellow is associated with the word "caution" and is the second light on stop lights. The color is associated with aging as well, for both people and objects (e.g. "yellowed" paper). Ethnographically, the term "yellow" has been used as a slang term for both Asians ("yellow peril") and, in the early 20th century, light-skinned African-Americans (High yellow).

"Yellow" ("giallo"), in Italy, refers to crime stories, both fictional and real. This association began in about 1930, when the first series of crime novels published in Italy had yellow covers. The term "yellow movie" (黃色電影) can refer to films of pornographic nature in Chinese culture, and is analogous to the English "blue movie".^[6] Lastly, it is associated with sensational journalistic practices, or yellow journalism, and resistance to militant trade unions.^[7]"

from: http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=yellow

"yellow (adj.) 

O.E. geolu, geolwe, from P.Gmc. *gelwaz (cf. O.S., O.H.G. gelo, M.Du. ghele, Du. geel, M.H.G. gel, Ger. gelb, O.N. gulr, Swed. gul "yellow"), from PIE *ghel- "yellow, green" (see Chloe).

Meaning "light-skinned" (of blacks) first recorded 1808. Applied to Asiatics since 1787, though the first recorded reference is to Turkish words for inhabitants of India. Yellow peril translates Ger. die gelbe gefahr. Sense of "cowardly" is 1856, of unknown origin; the color was traditionally associated rather with treachery. Yellow-bellied "cowardly" is from 1924, probably a rhyming reduplication of yellow; earlier yellow-belly was a sailor's name for a half-caste (1867) and a Texas term for Mexican soldiers (1842, based on the color of their uniforms). Yellow dog "mongrel" is attested from c.1770; slang sense of "contemptible person" first recorded 1881. Yellow fever attested from 1748, Amer.Eng. (jaundice is a symptom)."

had the thought cross my mind this morning, "yell ow" establishes a certain pain relatedness to the word. 

how much of these challenging characteristics stem from our associative meanings to the word yellow.

in a more positive light;

from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yellow

• The Christian holiday of Easter is represented by the colors yellow and lavenderbecause the crocus flower, which is yellow and lavender, blooms in Europe in the spring.
• In the metaphysics of the New Age Prophetess, Alice A. Bailey, in her system called the Seven Rays which classifies humans into seven different metaphysical psychological types, the fourth ray of harmony through conflict is represented by the color yellow. People who have this metaphysical psychological type are said to be on the Yellow Ray. "^[39]
• In Hinduism, yellow is used to symbolically represent the third, solar plexuschakra (Manipura).^[40]
• Psychics who claim to be able to observe the aura with their third eye report that someone with a yellow aura is typically someone who is in an occupation requiring intellectual acumen, such as a scientist.^[41]
• In Europe, many liberal parties are symbolised by the color yellow, including the Free Democratic Party (Germany),Liberal Forum (Austria), Estonian Reform Party, National Liberal Party (Romania) and Liberal and Centre Union(Lithuania). The pan-European Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe and European Liberal Democrat and Reform Party also use the color yellow.
• A group of NGOs by the name of Bersih (Coalition for Clean and Fair Elections) had used the color yellow to symbolize their fight against corruption in election in Malaysia. The giant rally was organized on 9 July 2011.
• The ancient Maya associated the color yellow with the direction South. The Maya glyph for "yellow" (k'an) also means "precious" or "ripe".^[38]
• 
  
• "Common connotations" and Mayan glyph from: http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=yellow

• Common connotations —

  sunshine, warmth, fun, happiness, warning,friendship, caution, slow, cowardice, Mardi Gras, summer, lemons, Easter, autumn, electricity,liberalism/libertarianism, hope, optimism,imagination, curiosity

Mayan glyph for yellow

perhaps by understanding the range of its meanings, positive and negative yellow significants, as artists we can come to a more harmonic understanding of the positive and negative yellow and effectually relate this understanding to our using yellow in broader strokes...

a 2005 Mt. Greylock diptych

Mt. Greylock diptych             5 1/2" x 10 1/2"           beeswax/natural pigment on recycled wood             




this piece i never photographed until visiting with friends that have it this spring. Mt Greylock in
NW MA was subject in many of my paintings in 2005. the energetics of the wave(s) of the mountain(s) and land/space were a conscious awareness for me as i shifted from a physical interpretation to an energetic understanding of the space we reside or harmonize with and working with it seasonally, physically, and more toward the energetic in my heart of being the art and not relying on mental based romance of landscape painting per say. 

have a great fathers day!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Father's_Day

...
"It did not have much success initially. In the 1920s, Dodd stopped promoting the celebration because she was studying in the Art Institute of Chicago, and it faded into relative obscurity, even in Spokane.^[5] In the 1930s Dodd returned to Spokane and started promoting the celebration again, raising awareness at a national level.^[6] She had the help of those trade groups that would benefit most from the holiday, for example the manufacturers of ties, tobacco pipes, and any traditional present to fathers.^[7] Since 1938 she had the help of the Father's Day Council, founded by the New York Associated Men's Wear Retailers to consolidate and systematize the commercial promotion."...


" In 1957, Maine Senator Margaret Chase Smith wrote a proposal accusing Congress of ignoring fathers for 40 years while honoring mothers, thus "[singling] out just one of our two parents".^[15] In 1966, President Lyndon B. Johnson issued the first presidential proclamation honoring fathers, designating the third Sunday in June as Father's Day.^[14] Six years later, the day was made a permanent national holiday when President Richard Nixon signed it into law in 1972."...

egg carton foundation for the artsaa

the painted paper assemblage, etc. where initial founding marks made to "egg carton foundation for the arts" survived the mold coup, was not relegated to compost, and will continue the work... 

Carved reliefs on a temple of Angkor Thom, Cambodia Photo Atif Gulzar.

egg carton foundation for the arts to compost slideshow

water, dark rainy days, mold, my room mate/mold sensitivities, cultural expectations/mold sensitivities and i/mold sensitivities determined this work has arrived at the times for it to return to Earth with a celebratory parade.

egg carton foundation for the arts d

the white mold invasion continues on this pie(ea)ce... i used rubbing alcohol after it appeared in the underpainting & tea tree oil last night and this morning after a second underpainting yesterday. i don't want to use boric acid (toxicity) and wonder about Borax leaving a film on the textured surface. then there's the possibility of just letting it grow and filming the live mold art of the egg carton foundation for the arts! with my mold allergies that experiment isn't likely. 
the mold has subsided/died off with the tea tree treatments. will rid the mold before adding more water element...

egg carton foundation for the arts c

yesterday's wet underpainting, high humidity, rains & cloud cover created a mold environment. the whiteness in the crevices between the egg holder relief moved in over night. i've sprayed with rubbing alcohol to kill the spores/growth. rubbing alcohol also can produce a certain resistance to additional layering of pigment/material. This occurring will be in the finished painting as part of its character and integrity in texture, color, line, chemistry and energy. rubbing alcohol also can produce a certain resistance to additional layering of pigment/material....

good morning!

egg carton foundation for the arts b

blurred shot showing poured wheat paste in seams between cartons. this reinforces
the plane of the foundation and adheres the egg cartons together while adhering them
more to the canvas backing and reinforcing the structure of the piece.
its wetness, after drying softens and tweaks wave energy over the dried surfaces.
used charcoal to color each peak of the inverted egg carton under the paper construct
and wheat pasted the peaks, placing the paper construct over those peaks...

egg carton foundation for the arts

using egg cartons, will mount on recycled cotton drop cloth and use for the foundation of this work...

Cherrie's Tanager

this is a male Cherrie's Tanager of the Pacific Coast Costa Rica. while I was in Dominical

one followed me around quite a bit. He wing touched me twice, one on the left cheek and one on the right. the writer at http://creagrus.home.montereybay.com/tanagers.html reports spectrographically the intense red on male Ramphocelus is the brightest red in the bird world. With each brushing Cherrie's bright red exploded, flashing this red throughout my vision and being. I'll be looking, meditating and learning on this more during the next year. 

"roots and seeds" (a)

using a Himalayan grid paper initially, laying out the sliced Turmeric root, pouring of wheat paste, drying and removal of loose material on this one at this point in it. The loose material will either go back into this one or on to another, or tossed somewhere.

back porch art

I photoed this artist(s)' sensitively slow developing artwork on my back porch the other day...
a part of the pareidolia movement.

egg cartons. organic, free range, etc. ones

am looking for more of these collector item egg cartons locally...