"boxed rain art 2"

           Earth pigments, wheat paste, cassein, rain & repurposed cardboard box

Labor and Rain here in the Berkshires for Labor Day weekend…

In these pieces I’m coordinating the application of pigments and wheat flour/sea salt

with the various rains; downpour, steady, to sprinkles and the length of time I leave them in the rain for their textural, binding and energetic qualities with the rain as the vehicle for the pigment/flour salt.

I can work the color, line, form and overall design, etc. with just the dry or use the rain to wet the cardboard initially.  My methods of application are widely variable within that conditional range...

"boxed rain art 1"

Earth pigments, wheat paste, cassein, rain & repurposed cardboard box

"linoleum"

Earth pigment and egg yolk on linoleum

"center ring 55"

Earth oxate, ochre pigment & wheat paste installed with repurposed wood post

"center ring 54"

Earth oxate, ochre pigment & wheat paste installed with repurposed wood post

"center ring 53"

Earth oxate, ochre pigment & wheat paste installed with repurposed wood post

ties that bind me/you/us

8/23/13

8/4/13

7/15/13

9 the fifth season, Lammas

16" x 11"

8 the fifth season, Lammas

16" x 11"

7 the fifth season, Lammas

16" x 11"

6 the fifth season, Lammas

16" x 11"

5 the fifth season, Lammas

16" x 11"

4 the fifth season, Lammas

soft Pine

through the cat tails to the water lilies

3 the fifth season, Lammas

2 the fifth season, Lammas

"center ring 52"

Earth oxate, ochre pigment & wheat paste installed with repurposed wood post

I like to watch the fifth season theory, Lammas. This year’s early August Summer storm front signaled the change as storms often do. High winds, some rumbles and lots of rain. Two nights down into the 40 and 50s. We are in a new season. The grains, Winter Squashes and beans are ready for harvest. The length of the day is a bit more noticeably shorter as the angle of the Sun lessens and the colors change.

Here in the Northeast the greens change to the metallic Copper, Zinc Brassy, and Copper Tin Bronzy tonalities. The Amber grains and a full spectrum of beans. There are deeper darks with contrasting light colors of the Sun as its light refracts and reflects differently now as it spends more time during the day shining through the lower atmospheres.

I was having fun writing this and then it struck me, “with very fine heavy metal particles floating around in our atmosphere how does that effect the colors of the season?” – one of those deeper darker spaces!

This is the first piece of "the fifth season" Series or "toilet paper series" with more in the studio... 

the fifth season, Lammas

Earth oxide and oxate pigments

Pine Pinus alba resin & inclusions

egg yolk

citrus solv®

toilet paper

Khadi paper

"center ring 51"

Earth oxate, ochre pigment & wheat paste installed with repurposed wood post

"Yellow Dock Rumex crispus Field theories"

"center ring 49"

Earth oxate, ochre pigment & wheat paste installed with repurposed wood post

"center ring 48"

Earth oxate, ochre pigment & wheat paste installed with repurposed wood post

"center ring 47"

Earth oxate, ochre pigment & wheat paste installed with repurposed wood post

"ties that bind usyoume"

 railroad spikes

Earth Ochre pigment

sea salt

wheat paste

Khadi paper

Earth

Set with the environment “ties that bind usyoume” is infused with the environments’ liveliness as well as its’ own vitality coming to a new being of wholeness. The two are woven.

For previous entries see:

7/15/13 http://gregpatch.blogspot.com/2013/07/blog-post_15.html

7/14/13 http://gregpatch.blogspot.com/2013/07/final-drying-and-locating-installation.html

Chimera

5" x 8"x 3"

Granite

rusted metal

paper 

flaked paint

Pine resin w/incursions

moss