on the road to Greenfield 

     

....East, in with the Taconics....

     

evening storm, Hinsdale NH

dispelling my shadow memorial day

digital

awaken with Spring

charcoal, egg tempera medium, beeswax & natural pigment and green painter's tape

 on Maple bed boards

34" x 42" & 24" x 42"

\ thinking; hanging these on opposite walls with appropriate lighting /

bed post begun as the New Moon formed in Aquarius 2/18

2/25

2/26

art challenge; 3 works from the 1990's, 3rd of 5 posts... in the late 80's I began using natural materials in my art work; beeswax with natural pigments based on Goethe's color wheel and other natural materials like leaves, grasses, wood and metal in the natural environment...

I'm inviting Destry Shannon Sparks, Richard Sassoon and Joan Millette to the art challenge... 

"Monument Mountain"

foraged Phragmites australis stretchered panel encased in local beeswax

20" x 40"

1993

Pontoosac Spirits, Balance Rock

placed photos 

1994

"Green Man"

beeswax/natural pigments and leaves on masonite panel

18" x 18"

1996

charcoal drawings on paper for piece(s) I'm playing with now. working from perceptions of awakened automated dream drawing, some become pareidolia and or suggestive of idea(s) as we see, others remain as amorphic imagery with being in form, color and line...

darkside 

mothers 

fathers

teachers

friends

and enemies

embrace

mold 

cradle 

nourish

lightside

flaked paint & glass 

ipod digital

"converging"

Beeswax, natural pigments, Red Beet dye on cotton rag watercolor paper

11 1/2" x 15"

"synchronizing"

Beeswax, natural pigments, Red Beet dye on cotton rag watercolor paper

11 1/2" x 15"

"converging"

Beeswax, natural pigments, Swiss Chard & Garlic dye on cotton rag watercolor paper

11 1/2" x 15"

"merging"

Beeswax, natural pigments, Swiss Chard & Garlic dye on cotton rag watercolor paper

11 1/2" x 15"

"Winter Dreamscape"

a quick note of my processional place in the world

Blown out of my experiment with my Prius mobil home by my "falling asleep"? at the wheel just before midnight Tues., 11/19. Was on a short dark stretch of 4 lane between two bright lit shopping areas in Wilmington, NC. The lighted area ahead was my next mooring for the night. Got towed to a local car service and slept for a couple hours while waiting for them to open. Sleeping for a couple hours in parking lots and moving on was quite typical of my adventure that stretched out 1 1/2 weeks after moving out of apartment living and on to the road. 

Most fortunately Chitikara and myself were ok and there were no property damages involved. She is staying with her old friend and his two cats and last reported to be playing and happy; and enjoying being out of the car I'm sure.

The known repairs to my damaged Prius, until up on a lift, were 3 blown tires and some rim remodeling on the front left. I had no money with a $500. collision deductible. A couple weeks ago my Toyota dealership gave me the name, Thankyou Toyota!, of a car broker who would give about $2000 for my "06 that I've been driving since my previous employer bought it new for her transportation with me as driver. A wonderful automobile that was never a problem and averaged 50 mpg right up to my next call to the broker. With the 3 blown tires, damaged rim and a question of what else he wrote me a check for $1400. 

I am now bi podal and looking for work and/or a secure patron/ess of the arts. Offers and suggestions are very open for discussion. Contact me since I don't know you yet...

my art is my life

my life is my art

my art is my life

 right front

right rear

left front

These Redbud bushes planted by Jenna O'Brien https://www.facebook.com/Viridissima where I'm staying form this solid rectangular in contrast and leading to the front of the larger solid rectangular of the woods behind. Viewed from the house the yard space is defined by the rectangular wooded borderline. Within it are the rectangular house, the Redbud to the East and two oblong or squircle gardens to the west of the house...

The Redbud is somewhere in between square and circle and none of this may have anything to do with why this Redbud has fascinated me since arriving here...

Redbud or Red Bud 

3 exerts from http://www.henriettesherbal.com/eclectic/dmna/cercis.html

"There are five to ten flowers in each cluster and these clusters are produced so thickly on the branches that the tree when in bloom is a mass of red and a conspicuous object even at a distance. The flowers have a pleasant, tart taste, and are said to have been used as pickles by the early French settlers."

"Cercis Canadensis contains neither alkaloid, nor crystalline glucosid that we could discover and the only constituent of marked characteristic was the tannin that gave the astringency. This tannin was extracted by alcohol and water, and freely by glycerine. It precipitated ferric salts, blue if in dilute solution, and immediately threw all traces of gelatine from solutions containing that body. Owing to the small size of the tree, it is probable that the bark will never be of sufficient abundance to compete in the market with oak and hemlock as a tanning agent, but the richness of the tannin commends it to consideration. Should the bark of this tree come into use as a medicinal agent, it must necessarily be as a vegetable astringent. Owing to the abundance of other well known astringents, however, that may act more kindly, at least being well understood, it is improbable that Cercis will be used in medicine to any extent."

"MEDICAL HISTORY AND PROPERTIES.—Cercis has never been used in medicine. The dispensatories do not honor it by a position, even Prof. King omiting it from the American Dispensatory. Neither Thomsonian nor Eclectic recognize it and Regular medicine bears no evidence of the existence of such a drug beyond a few brief notes, published by Dr. Wm. R. Smith, Sr. , [New Preparations, Geo. S. Davis, Detroit. Minn.. 1879, pp, 141, 251.] who states, "I have had over twenty years' experience in the use of Cercis Canadensis, and can, with confidence, recommend it to the profession. In all cases were an astringent [We wrote our paper on the chemistry of the drug before consulting this paper of Dr. Smith.] is indicated it will give satisfaction, and it has the advantage over all other articles of that class, that it can be given when the stomach is irritable, without increasing the trouble, making it very valuable in the treatment of the diarrhoeas peculiar to infancy. But it is in the treatment of chronic diarrhoea and dysentery that its curative action is most manifest. During the war I used it at the Post Hospital at Cairo, in the treatment of that scourge of the western army,—camp diarrhoea,—with extraordinary success." Dr. Smith mixed one fluid ounce of Cercis with three fluid ounces of aromatic syrup of rhubarb, and in chronic dysentery administered a teaspoonful every four hours. In chronic diarrhcea he administered the fluid extract of Cercis in teaspoonful doses after each discharge. He also employed Cercis in leucorrhoea and gleet."

"Redbud Cercis canadensis inner bark highly astringent. has been used with diarrhea and dysentery, also a folk remedy for cancer/leukemia. Flowers are edible and appear in early spring before leafing." - James Duke Medicinal Plants and Herbs of the Eastern/Central US

"Lake Garfield dream time"

nightscape

ancient shadows grid                        digital                           Greg Patch

ancient shadows missioning  

listening

glistening 

moistening with Moon

blistering with Sun

pauseing 

within/out 

as

one
on
O

gknowing yesteryearsday passing 

re-minding tomorrow's dreaming
         

                                                                                                          Greg Patch