honeycomb (2nd)

          

the second sheet of thick honeycomb cardboard, papers, tape, earth and vegetable natural pigments and etcs.  interested in maintaining a similarly scaled grid and color as in the first honeycomb.

bud leafs (20 days)

                                                            bud leafs (10 days)                                     ©Greg Patch

spiral fan

        

spiral fan                   37" x 38"                    mixed eco materials  

 

 with the top photo there is a pile of insect/fungus or something sheathing off strips from the 4" x 4" post in the ground. one strip in the walkway is pointing at the strawberry plants. strawberry likes a bedding mulch so i removed the "waste" strips and laid them about most of the plants seen in the second photo.
the photos document this recent garden sketch...

moss garden

Moss growing in the cracks of the concrete steps in the backyard is where I harvested for "life is good waiting for moss to grow" and "spiral fan".  Wanting to tend the moss as a wild environment I carefully selected the moss I harvested, less than 25% of the colony, leaving most in place so to continue its growth here. In the early stages with my experimenting using moss growing in a yogurt culture in my painting I also want to have access to this moss in the future. In the finished pieces the moss/yogurt hasn't taken due to my stopping watering the moss. I'm satisfied for now with the textures, form and the energy of the moss/yogurt with the two paintings. There's a certain expectancy of life in them.

basketball double helix

these were each done in 2007 with hard beeswax/pigment following the movement of the ball during an entire basketball game(s).

basketball double helix 1

basketball double helix 2

basketball double helix 3

basketball double helix 4

bud leafs (13 days)

bud leafs (13 days)                 digital                 ©Greg Patch

an early Pear blossom
digital
©Greg Patch

meditation with this red bloom visually brings its nurturing, healing, Earth through our feet to first chakra connecting ourself with a great Spring clean up. Reading Eileen Nauman's flower essence description connecting Pear with root chakra may or may not have grounds to stand on in my mind.

from Eileen Nauman https://gator147.hostgator.com/~eileen/store/copy/fe_pear.htmlPEAR BLOSSOM FLOWER ESSENCE
LATIN: Prunus, name unknown, dwarf Bartlett GOOD FOR: Healing reproductive issues for women--miscarriage, abortion, loss of a baby, etc. Inspires feminine qualities and integration. Nurturing of self. DID YOU KNOW: You are an emotion-based person. You think through your feelings. Your gut hunches are right on. One to run on your emotions, you has a passion for life that few can match. Family is very important to you. You love life. You are in love with life. No one is more appreciative of the six senses than you are and usually, by middle age, you are using all of them to their max! HEALTHY YOU: Passionate on all levels, if you can harness this powerful desire that is the engine you run on, you can change the world. Literally or figuratively speaking, you are a highly emotional, volatile person. Learning how to handle this wild runaway team of horses within you is key for you to do something healthy and positive for yourself in your life. You are in love with love. An idealist at heart, you see the world through rose colored glasses, for sure. Idealism isn't all bad; you just have to figure out a way to put your nuclear emotional qualities into a focus where it will do good for yourself and others. Often, you are drawn to 'underdog' work, helping those less well off than yourself, becoming a crusader for the environment or health industry are but a few of your callings. You are a nurturer at heart. You'll make a wonderful parent because you are so supportive of others and are able to show your deep sense of love to your children and family. UNHEALTHY YOU: If you've heard of the term, "drama queen" or "drama king", then this may fit you well. Especially as a baby and young child, you may have thrown temper tantrums quite frequently. As you go into your teenage years, wearing your heart on your sleeve may be your undoing. You are far too vulnerable, emotionally speaking, and you may cover up this fact by being 'tough', a bully, or worse, seeking relief or padding or barricading your feelings by overeating and becoming obese. Or, you can become anorexic or bulimic as a result. Worse, you can get into alcohol or a drug habit as 'armor' to protect your sensitivity and vulnerability. Its important to learn healthy ways to protect yourself emotionally, instead. Withdrawing from society and being a hermit isn't the answer, either. Your teenage years are the most crucial and the most dangerous. Teen suicide may crop up with this individual and parents should be aware of your needs and help support you in a way that gives you a sense of safety and protection. Later, as an adult, you may well grow out of this, having learned how to handle your emotions and vulnerability. Until then, its like being a shelled animal without a shell. Not much fun. PROVING QUICK GUIDE: QUICK GUIDE ON PEAR BLOSSOM by Eileen Nauman Copyright 1999 - 2004 Eileen Nauman All Rights Reserved Compiled by Lisa Maturo PEAR BLOSSOM SYMPTOMS FROM PROVERS ALONE, LONELINESS Pear Blossom (healing the sense of aloneness) MF BALANCE, SENSE OF Pear Blossom (unbalanced) NG Pear Blossom (balances self with everything) MF BUGS Pear Blossom (lots of bees buzzing) NG, GC, MF CHAKRA, DAMAGE AND REPAIR Pear Blossom (balances chakras) MF CHAKRA, ROOT Pear Blossom (throbbing sensation) RB COMPASSIONATE Pear Blossom (helps to become more) EN, MF, GC Pear Blossom (makes us humane and compassionate) MF CONNECTION, SENSE OF WITH OTHERS COMMUNITY, SENSE OF LONER Pear Blossom (sense of oneness with all) MF Pear Blossom (enjoy the company of others) GC Pear Blossom (great capacity to share with others) GC Pear Blossom (very people oriented) GC CREATIVITY Pear Blossom (creative abilities shine) GC DIRTY, FEELING TOXICITY, PHYSICAL TOXICITY, SPIRITUAL Pear Blossom (feeling impure physically and spiritually) NG FEAR Pear Blossom (release from fear by truth) NG FOCUS Pear Blossom (things more in focus) GC GANGBANGERS ABUSIVE PEOPLE SOCIOPATHIC BEHAVIOR Pear Blossom (makes us humane and compassionate) MF GROUNDED, SPACINESS Pear Blossom (firmly grounded) MF GUILT, FEELINGS OF Pear Blossom (helps with feeling guilty) NG HAPPINESS DEPRESSION SADNESS NEGATIVITY Pear Blossom (felt very happy) MF Pear Blossom (uplifting) MF Pear Blossom (can sweeten our love of life) MF HOMESICK Pear Blossom (sensation of home) GC Pear Blossom (no place like home) GC INNER-CHILD ISSUES Pear Blossom (childlike happiness) MF RUNAWAY CHILDREN Pear Blossom ("no place like home" feeling) GC SELF-ESTEEM PURPOSE, NEEDING SENSE OF Pear Blossom (seeing clearly the potential you have) GC Pear Blossom (a real seer of knowing your position) GC SENSES Pear Blossom (senses were activated) MF Pear Blossom (sense of smell increased dramatically) MF TOLERANCE, JUDGMENTAL FORGIVE, ABILITY TO CRITICAL PERFECTIONISM Pear Blossom (helps to accept other's weaknesses and mistakes) MF, GC, EN, RB Pear Blossom (tolerance, non-judgement) MF, GC, RB TONIC, GENERAL Pear Blossom (feeling of whole body remedy on all planes) NG TRANQUILITY, HYPERACTIVE, ANXIETY PANIC ATTACKS Pear Blossom (felt serene) MF Pear Blossom (quiet, peaceful) EN WHOLENESS Pear Blossom (sense of oneness) MF

bud leafs (10 days)

bud leafs (10 days)                     digital                        ©Greg Patch

Happy Norouz!

http://www.majalla.com/eng/2012/03/article55230005

Written by : The Majalla: The Leading Arab Magazine

on : Tuesday, 20 Mar, 2012 

A Spring in Their Step

Iranians across the globe celebrate Persian New Year

Norouz celebrations in Istanbul

“Norouz celebrates the revival of nature, and reminds us of the fact that darkness and gloom are bound to be followed by light, rebirth and revival. Norouz always reminds us that better days are yet to come.” says Nasrin Amiri, one of many Iranians across the globe who are today celebrating Norouz, or Persian New Year.

Norouz, literally meaning ‘New Day’, marks the start of the solar year in the Iranian calendar as well as the first day of spring in the northern hemisphere, with the vernal equinox being the first day of the New Year.

A youth jumps over a fire during Norouz celebrations

Many nationalities celebrate this festival. Persian New Year is observed not only in Iran but also Azerbaijan, Central Asia, Afghanistan, Pakistan, parts of India and also among the Kurds.

Norouz is usually celebrated on March 21st of Georgian Calendar. However, as 2012 is a leap year this year Norouz falls on Tuesday March 20 at precisely at 05:14 AM, the exact moment that the earth finishes its journey around the sun and the instant the sun leaves the astrological sign of Pisces and enters that of Aries.

“The principle of development begins with the history of Persia. This therefore constitutes strictly the beginning of World-History,” German philosopher Friedrich Hegel once said.

Persian New Year dates back more than 2500 years. Every year on March 21st, the representatives of Persian territories, established by Darius, came to Persepolis to celebrate Norouz and present the King with their finest gifts. Persepolis carvings show Bactrians, Babylonians, Phoenicians, Ethiopians, Indians and Arachosians carrying gifts as valuable as gold and ivory.

In view of the fact that Cyrus the Great is highly respected in Iran, and Persia under his reign had a profound impact on the course of world history, Mohammed Reza Shah allocated the year that Cyrus the Great was crowned as the emperor of Persia, as the origin of the Iranian calendar. According to this origin, this year’s Norouz celebration would have marked the year 2571.

However, after the Iranian Revolution in 1979 and under Ayatollah Khomeini’s supremacy, the origin of the Iranian calendar changed from Cyrus the Great’s coronation to Prophet Mohammed’s emigration from Mecca to Medina. According to this origin in the Iranian calendar, Iranians must celebrate the beginning of the year 1391.

Haft seen

Norouz is not all about astronomical and mathematical calculations. There are many cultural rituals that Iranians celebrate passionately, such as setting the Haft Seen, a table containing seven specific items starting with the letter ‘S’: Sabzeh (freshly grown greens), Samanou (sweet wheat pudding), Senjed (oleaster), Seeb (apple), Seer (garlic), Somagh (sumac) and Serkeh (vinegar). Haft-Seen is a major component of the customs observed for Norouz.

Each of these items has a meaning. Sabzeh symbolises rebirth and renewal; Samanou symbolises affluence; Senjed is a symbol of love; Seeb symbolises beauty and health; Seer is a symbol of medicine; Somagh symbolises sunrise and Serkeh is a symbol of old-age and patience.People may place a poetry book, such as the Shahnameh or the Divan of Hafiz, or one of the holy books on the table.

Celebration rituals also include a major spring-clean, carried out  in the days prior to Narouz in order to welcome the guardian angels (Fourohars) who are believed to visit their human counterparts during this time. This is also symbolic of preparing for the new. Bon fires are also ignited on the last Tuesday of the year. Jumping over them is a purification rite that is believed to rid those who take part of illness and misfortune.

The meaningful ritual was registered on the UNESCO List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity and inscribed in 2009 as the International Day of Norouz. Norouz is a tradition that welcomes people of all religions to join together to salute spring and nature’s rebirth.

bud leafs (8 days)

bud leafs (8 days)                       digital                         ©Greg Patch

green red                               digital                             ©Greg Patch

bud leafs (6 days)

bud leafs (6 days)                       digital                         ©Greg Patch

"Bath" and "Greenville"

Bath                                         digital                              ©Greg Patch

Greenville                             digital                              ©Greg Patch

HONEY Exhibition opening is Thursday, March 15th from 6:oo-9:oo p.m. at the Greenville Museum of Art

Exhibition

HONEY is a dynamic, juried exhibition embodying and celebrating the role of the honeybee. In light of the international Colony Collapse Disorder crisis and global concerns over war, economic collapse and a worldwide food shortage, the fate of the honeybee mirrors the fate of humanity.  Philosopher Rudolf Steiner noted the bees as an indicator species in developing his ideas on biodynamic farming and caring for the earth. This call for entries seeks artwork related to these issues and honoring the majestic apis mellifera.

Artists whose work has been juried into the exhibition are: Heather Beck, Barbara Blaisdell, Aleta Braun, Ben Bridgers, Katy Cassell, Megan Clark, Kelly Jean Conroy, Laurie Corral, Desiree DeMars, Gina Dill, Christine Dougherty, Mary Early, Bob Ebendorf, Kristen Egan, Jane Wells Harrison, Sarah K. Hooper, Melissa Hronkin, June Jasen, Rachel Kauff, Joyce Watkins King, Timothy Lazure, Jenny Lynn McNutt, Jeff Millikan, Greg Patch, Betsy Peters, Christine Reising, Suzanne Sawyer, Pat Spainhour, Elizabeth Staiger, Melvin S. Stanforth, Rebecca Stirner, Isaac Talley, Lauren Thiele, and Robin Wise.

The exhibition dates are March 10 – April 8, 2012.
Exhibition opening is Thursday, March 15th from 6:00-9:oo p.m. at the Greenville Museum of Art

Our juror, Catherine Coulter Lloyd is the current Visual Arts Specialist at the Maria V. Howard Arts Center in Rocky Mount, NC. She has worked in arts administration for over ten years in a variety of capacities including curator, education director, collections manager, registrar, and preparator. Lloyd has served on the board of the North Carolina Museum Council as Government Affairs Chair and Directory Chair. She obtained a BFA from Western Carolina University and an MFA from East Carolina University with focuses in the area of ceramics, fiber, and photography.

For full details, please download and read the prospectus [PDF format].

bud leafs (4 days)

bud leafs (4 days)                digital               ©Greg Patch

P48 & P50 a collaboration continues

a collaboration continues

P48 & P50 http://gregpatch.blogspot.com/2012/03/p48-p50.html

new chain storage/display

the 11" ceiling provides space

bud leafs (2 days)

bud leafs (2 days)                digital               ©Greg Patch

P48 & P50

Cheese Cloth Grid #6 & Cheese Cloth Grid #7

Cheese Cloth Grid #6          16" x 12"         earth pigment on Khadi paper

Cheese Cloth Grid #7          16" x 12"           earth pigment on Khadi paper

bud leafs                                         ©Greg Patch

spiral fan

"#4 Meng Youthful Folly " 83" x 38" earth pigment/wheat paste/etc. on paper

a reassemblage with butcher block paper & tape used in preparing "spiral fan".

"#4 Meng Youthful Folly"

83" x 38"

spiral fan

am looking through the idea of leaving the paper over the spiral brick yogurt moss and wetting the paper down to stretch and mold to the desk/spiral forms below. would make an xacto cut of the yogurt/moss areas as the paper completes forming and begins to dry. the desk/spiral is slightly tinted in photo...

morning has broken

Morning Has Broken                                                 ©GregPatch

art tripped up to Greenville, NC 2/2/12

North Carolina's 10th largest city, pop. 84,554 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greenville,_North_Carolina


Yesterday was treated to a spontaneous/perfecto timing/full blast pre First Fri. nite Greenville Artwalk with Destry Sparks of Greenville, NC. Think southern, coastal country boy, gentle, hospitality with humor, grace and centered fine artist focus, he's the man. www.destrysparks.com/ Many thanks Destry!!, and to all the warm art folk he introduced me to!


We met up at the public library, hung a right, just next door, on Evans Street, (Greenville's main artsy street; arts, Dale's Indian restaurant and Americana restaurants, coffee/reading/rest spots, gifts and etc.)... 


...is the Greenville Museum of Art www.gmoa.org/ GMA houses a really sweet,,several rooms collection. There, are artstudiohold name artists and some I'd not met yet; Charles Burchfield, Minnie DesChamps, Claude Howell, Clarence Morgan, some Kenneth Nolan, a large Louise Nevelson, 19th c. Japanese woodcuts and a few Hudson River painters, Hobson Pittman, Donald Sexauer, Francis Speight, et y et... Upstairs was a large, well installed, group show of young people's art from the local Oakwood School.

Bayou Houseboat by William Henry Stevens, Pastel, 1945 (from the GMA collection)

Then to The Art Room Gallery & Studio with Nelle Lee Hayes; a collaborative IPad adventure between two artists in England and France;




Across the street; Pitt County Arts Council Emerge Gallery, http://www.emergegallery.com/
Two simultaneous juried shows, March 2 - 31.
               and                 

spinning a few blocks over to East Carolina University's Gray Gallery
https://www.ecu.edu/cs-cfac/soad/graygallery/exhibitions.cfm;

Exhibitions

March 1-31: ECU 2012 Undergraduate Exhibition
East Carolina University features the largest studio art program in North Carolina, which is fully accredited by the National Association of Schools of Art and Design (NASAD). Curriculum areas represented in the show are: art foundations, ceramics, drawing, graphic design, illustration, interactive media, metals, painting, photography, printmaking, sculpture textile design, video, film and wood design. Area curriculum coordinators in the School of Art and Design select the outstanding works submitted from over 600 undergraduate students.

The awards ceremony will be Thursday, March 1 at 5:00 PM in Speight Auditorium of the Jenkins Fine Arts building on the ECU campus.

Students in Art History will have work in the Burroughs Wellcome Gallery adjacent to the Gray Gallery from March 4 through March 24. More details are on the Gray Gallery main page.

and over town to City Art Gallery http://www.cityartgreenville.com/feature.htm

with other artists represented and a group of young and old spread
on the floor playing art making with plastic doodads...

a special stop at Destry's home studio to chat over his latest piece;

no justice in this photo sketch to the potent, subtle, simple complexities
of another fine art piece of Destry Sparks...

a quick drive over to little Inkstone Gallery with a focus on quality ceramic work... 

and finally to the Pitt County Community College' Juried Exhibition where many of Coastal North Carolina's Fine Artists are represented.

for more on artsy Greenville http://greenvillenc.localguides.com/ypcyellowpg/art_galleries.html?utm_source=google&utm_medium=cpc&utm_campaign=yellowpages&gclid=CJ-t-sfzyq4CFQKf7QoddjqnDA

...Dang.

palm grid

was playing with some pieces that fell off a piece of fallen lower trunk frond spike of a North Carolina Palm spp. while waiting at Toyota of Wilmington today. the shop was trying to figure where a qt. of oil disappeared to. they didn't figure it out - no charge, thankyou Toyota of Wilmington. that's somehow relevant to my palm grid observing - thankyou palms. there are some waves in there... any way.
here's the cell phone camera shot...

palm grid                                  digital                             ©Greg Patch

spiral fan

2/28 as the yogurt/moss mix dries seismic/arid drying occurs that create interesting line  formations that further
describe spiral with a drawn patterning and its relation to line and form of frond fanning.

                             

2/29 (leap year/mathematical correction day is another mis-alignment with our natural process with dark and light) have taped/papered foundation in prep for application of pigment.