griddigm figures

iPod photo of melting Snow and Ice
Vernal Equinox 2015

3/18/14

2/19/14

minimal installation

as the Sun re-emerges and the daylight hours increase helping to rapidly melt away the heavy snows and cold we've experienced. the installation begins to reveal the color natural Earth pigments; red, yellow & blue, that I set upon a thin layer of ice/snow on day 1 of the installation, 1/17/15...

by the end of the 48th day remaining red, yellow and blue pigments merging with the surface are sheltered by a last year's Pin Oak leaf, sheltering for/with the intense Cosmic energies; X Solar flare, tUr cj tMars in Aries sq tPluto in Capricorn and whatever other revelations we must face as individuals within a complex/simple environment ...

~be conscious of being grounded for the next few days, signatures direct us to avoid anger, war and harmful mishaps and to go deeply in healing our selves past and present as we prepare to CoCreate our future with Love and Peace... Be strong, secure and well~

as the Oak leaf blew away with the winds exposing that the color pigments no longer appear upon the "ground" surface. 

with the 52 day processional the pigments were reintegrated with the ground and will help to re mineralize the soil with their individual strengths...

day 49

day 50

day 51

day 52

~late Winter's snow breaking up~

2nd Midday and 2nd Evening

a vision/blessing journey for snow and ice breaking

organic Tobacco with snow & ice collage

the sequence of this installation starts in the Evening with Midday of the 2nd day then Morning of the 3rd day, repeats the following Morning, than Midday of the 5th day and with the 2nd Evening on the 6th day as a meandering horizontal "s" to this point in space and time marked by the 3 parts of a day, Evening, Midday and Morning...

2nd Midday

2nd Evening

minimal installation

as the Sun re-emerges and the daylight hours increase helping to rapidly melt away the heavy snows and cold we've experienced. the installation begins to reveal the color natural Earth pigments; red, yellow & blue, that I set upon a thin layer of ice/snow on day 1 of the installation, 1/17/15...

by the end of the 48th day remaining red, yellow and blue pigments merging with the surface are sheltered by a last year's Pin Oak leaf, sheltering for/with the intense Cosmic energies; X Solar flare, tUr cj tMars in Aries sq tPluto in Capricorn and whatever other revelations we must face as individuals within a complex/simple environment ...

~be conscious of being grounded for the next few days, signatures direct us to avoid anger, war and harmful mishaps and to go deeply in healing our selves past and present as we prepare to CoCreate our future with Love and Peace... Be strong, secure and well~

day 47

day 48

~late Winter's snow breaking up~

Midday, 1st Morning and 2nd Morning

a vision/blessing journey for snow and ice breaking

organic Tobacco with snow & ice collage

Midday

1st Morning

2nd Morning

minimal installation

as the Sun re-emerges and the daylight hours increase helping to rapidly melt away the heavy snows and cold we've experienced here in Southeastern NYS the installation begins to reveal the color pigments; red, yellow & blue, that were set upon a thin layer of ice/snow on day 1 of the installation, 1/17/15...

by the end of the 46th day all the snow and ice had melted into the soil leaving the red, yellow and blue with the surface, remerging with the soil...

~please be conscious of being grounded for the next few days, astrological arrows direct us to avoid anger, war and harmful mishaps... Be safe~

day 44

day 45

day 46 AM

day 46 PM

~Evening, late Winter's snow breaking up~

a vision/blessing for snow and ice breaking

organic Tobacco with snow & ice collage

"Fern tree & digital grid"

in taking several shots of this unknown to me species of Fern growing along the crotch of a tree this one appealed to me. the totality of the photo didn't record and the grid pattern of incompleted digital language recorded across the base of the image sets it as incomplete. within the grid are recorded glimpses of leaf, limb and sky that relate with those of the recorded realism of the image and creates a grid of the two imageries within the entire presented image. Now to figure out how to repeat this "error". What is it called?

"Moss/Root curbed with the sidewalk"

Loquat sidewalk art

http://www.hort.purdue.edu/newcrop/morton/loquat.html

Food Uses
The skin of the loquat is easily removed. Peeled and seeded fruits are eaten fresh, sometimes combined with sliced banana, orange sections and grated coconut. They are delicious simply stewed with a little sugar added. The fruits are also used in gelatin desserts or as pie-filling, or are chopped and cooked as a sauce. Loquats canned in sirup are exported from Taiwan. Some people prepare spiced loquats (with cloves, cinnamon, lemon and vinegar) in glass jars. The fruit is also made into jam and, when slightly underripe, has enough pectin to make jelly. The jelly was formerly manufactured commercially in California on a small scale.

Food Value Per 100 g of Edible Portion*
Calories	168
Protein	1.4 g
Fat	0.7 g
Carbohydrates	43.3 g
Calcium	70 mg
Phosphorus	126 mg
Iron	1.4 mg
Potassium	1,216 mg
Vitamin A	2,340 I.U.
Ascorbic Acid	3 mg

*Analyses reported by the Agricultural Research Service of the United States Department of Agriculture.
The fruit contains laevulose, sucrose and malic acid and lesser amounts of citric, tartaric and succinic acid. The pulp contains the carotenoids B-carotene (33%); y-carotene (6%); cryptoxanthin (22%), lutein, violaxanthin, neoxanthin (3-4% each). The peel is 5 times richer than the pulp in carotenoids which are similar to those in apricots.
Toxicity
A 5-year-old girl in Florida ate 4 unripe loquats, fell asleep and was difficult to awaken and seemed dazed. After about 2 hours, she was back to normal. There have been instances of poisoning in poultry from ingestion of loquat seeds. The seeds contain amygdalin (which is converted into HCN); also the lipids, sterol, b-sitosterol, triglyceride, sterolester, diglyceride and compound lipids; and fatty acids, mainly linoleic, palmitic, linolenic and oleic. There is amygdalin also in the fruit peel. The leaves possess a mixture of triterpenes, also tannin, vitamin B and ascorbic acid; in addition, there are traces of arsenic. Young leaves contain saponin. Some individuals suffer headache when too close to a loquat tree in bloom, The emanation from the flowers is sweet and penetrating.
Other Uses
Wood: The wood is pink, hard, close-grained, medium-heavy. It has been used instead of pear wood in making rulers and other drawing instruments.
Animal feed: The young branches have been lopped for fodder.
Perfume: In the 1950's, the flowers attracted the interest of the perfume industry in France and Spain and some experimental work was done in extraction of the essential oil from the flowers or leaves. The product was appealing but the yield was very small.
Medicinal Uses: The fruit is said to act as a sedative and is eaten to halt vomiting and thirst.

The flowers are regarded as having expectorant properties. An infusion of the leaves, or the dried, powdered leaves, may be taken to relieve diarrhea and depression and to counteract intoxication from consumption of alcoholic beverages. Leaf poultices are applied on swellings.

Pinus sp sidewalk art

my cell phone video capability is time limited. these two videos are a result

of my downloading one video in two parts. a video diptych, i like it... and so will present each as 

a whole. an entering; than darkness, a void, a checking in with a separate background, a suppressed thought, a dream time, and then a re-emerging, a continuance with the second ...

this walk toward a Water [& Air] quality treatment was funded greatly by local resources thru students at UNCW. the students and the funding moved on. unfortunately this occurs readily without continued fundings and people energies. the toxic runoff from lawn and garden pesticides, concrete breaking down and its toxic chemistry lands up in ground Waters and sewage leakage adds a nasty morning odor to the chemical mix as an obvious release of toxins to Air quality as well.

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 "mirrored"

Spanish Moss descending Live Oak Ascending Spanish Moss descen...

transformation as spirals

"Cardinal Flower"

am liking the pareidolia of

this painterly shot in Turners Falls, MA 

Cardinal flower is not typically in regular use in herbal medicine Lobelia inflata is. Lobelia cardinalis possesses less potency as an analgesic, antispasmodic, emetic and cartarrh with bronchial respiratory and lower digestive systems.

I took near where a camp of Native Americans...

from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/King_Philip's_War

"May 18, 1676, Captain William Turner of the Massachusetts Militia and a group of about 150 militia volunteers (mostly minimally trained farmers) attacked a large fishing camp of Native Americans at Peskeopscut on the Connecticut River (now called Turners Falls, Massachusetts). The colonists claimed they killed 100–200 Native Americans in retaliation for earlier Indian attacks against Deerfield and other colonist settlements and the colonial losses in the Battle of Bloody Brook. Turner and nearly 40 of the militia were killed during the return from the falls."

As it was at fishing camps just before sunrise the men were all out fishing. The camp of over 200 elders, women and children were slaughtered,was atop the cliffs that dropped down to the rapids of the river. Below the men listened to the screams.. These lands were Sacred as fishing and farming along the Connecticut. Healing intent with this photo is to send a message of recognition, understanding and consciousness into the Earth of the people...

~Love, Peace and CoCreativity~

flaked paint with sand, sand/oil sludge, vegetation debris, shells &
the Cape Fear River

Green Blessings with All this Samhain

blue sky day 2

flaked paint (Earth oxide pigments & og wheat flour) with Cape Fear River bank

blue sky day 1

flaked paint (Earth oxide pigments & og wheat flour) with Cape Fear River bank

"color song harmony with White Pine & Long Needle Pine"

spent some time with the returning Sun in Wilmington gathering resin from a grove of Long Needle Pine Pinus palustris this past week. 

the natural Earth pigmented flaked paint colors were made with resin gathered during my trip to the NE using White Pine Pinus strobus resin and connects these trees of Peace in the Northern and in the Southern USA with a biourban acupresure/puncture approach (see "centering installations") ...

"back porch"

taken off the back porch of the sanctuary where I am in Wilmington, NC