this the final photo of "ties that bind us" before I returned to NC from Monterey, MA 

taken on 9/11/13

                     

8/23/13

  

8/4/13

7/15/13

 

                                       

                                                    after drying, before installing 7/14/13

most recent photo documentation of "ties that bind usyoume" installation in Monterey MA. as it merges with Earth Water Air Fire Metal Elements and speaks here symbolically with colors Red and Green. 

"Red is commonly associated with danger, sacrifice, passion, fire, beauty, blood, anger, socialism & communism, and in China and many other cultures with happiness" (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red) stop and represents groundedness in Chakra systems.

"Green is the color most commonly associated with nature, the environmental movement, Ireland, Islam, spring, hope and envy." (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Green) go and in Chakra systems it represent energy of the Heart...

"ties that bind usyoume" 9/11/13

earlier entries...

"ties that bind usyoume" 8/23/13
http://gregpatch.blogspot.com/2013/08/blog-post_25.html

"ties that bind usyoume" 8/4/13
http://gregpatch.blogspot.com/2013/08/ties-that-bind-us-railroad-spikes-earth.html

earlier entries of the process of this piece:

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

"boxed rain art 8"

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

"boxed rain art 7"

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

"boxed rain art 6"

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

"boxed rain art 5"

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

"boxed rain art 4"

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

"boxed rain art 3"

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

                                                   "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

ties that bind me/you/us

8/23/13

8/4/13

7/15/13

"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

"ties that bind them/us/you/me"

installed between two mossy spots in Monterey, MA

railroad spikes

Earth Ochre pigment

sea salt

wheat paste

Khadi paper

final drying and locating installation site for it...

ties that bind us

railroad spikes

Earth Ochre pigment

sea salt

wheat paste

Khadi paper