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commenting on my charcoal river stone drawings project that I started just over a year ago, 7/27/16, with the Connecticut River and Deerfield River Valleys and moving into, and with, the Hudson River/and tributaries Valley of New York State:...

too often my charcoal drawings with the river stones and the rivers appear beautiful, photographic, and sometimes art like when in fact they are of Waters and Earth decimated and demoralized by human toxic wastes... in symbolic and possibly even in minute homeopathically cleansing applications I use charcoal from local circle fires, allowing my unconscious and conscious markings and the stones' formative textures to express our codependent relationship with Earth and Universal cosmologies... 

Be Well... 

Water is Life... 

Carbon/charcoal is a basic element for life's survival... 

~ may wisdom prevail ~

circles with charcoal 16, 17 & 18

studio made charcoal in egg tempera medium within 5 gallon planter bucket

- installation daily photo journaling -

-and the pot was stirred-

circles with charcoal 12 - 15

studio made charcoal in egg tempera medium within 5 gallon planter bucket

- installation daily photo journaling -

circles with charcoal 5 - 11

studio made charcoal in egg tempera medium within 5 gallon planter bucket

circles with charcoal 1 - 4

studio made charcoal in egg tempera medium within 5 gallon planter bucket

circles with charcoal 1 - 4

studio made charcoal in egg tempera medium within 5 gallon planter bucket

"manifesting the dream 2"

Earth pigments, traditional egg tempera, og wheat flour & lichen
on news paper atop cotton flannel quilt

"manifesting the dream 1"

Earth pigments, traditional egg tempera, og wheat flour & tree bark
on news paper atop cotton quilt

November 12

Earth pigments, charcoal, og wheat, og egg yolk tempera on paper

18” x 24”

2014

globulae

Earth pigments, charcoal, og wheat, og egg yolk tempera & white glue on newspaper on paper

11” x 11”

11/13/14

"brick pareidolia short story of a cycle of races in the U.S.A."

finds basis from the Native American prophetic story of the Seven Fires; 

"Seven prophets came to the Anishinabe. They came at a time when the people were living a full and peaceful life on the North Eastern coast of North America. These prophets left the people with seven predictions of what the future would bring. Each of the prophecies was called a fire and each fire referred to a particular era of time that would come in the future. Thus, the teachings of the seven prophets are now called the "Seven Fires"."

http://www.wabanaki.com/seven_fires_prophecy.htm

this entropic myth/tale/prophecy is not exclusive to the Anishinabe story of "Seven Fires". The story line can be found in most cultures and is a description of a culture reaching its' flowering and dying back to be replaced by next years crop and implemented by those present whether they are plant or animal. It is enfoldment.

Chimera

5" x 8"x 3"

Granite

rusted metal

paper 

flaked paint

Pine resin w/incursions

moss

Sun Flower, Pyramid and the Tree of Peace

gifted with this photo sketch this morning off my back porch as Sun rose behind the elder White Pine at the edge of the forest of Beartown State Park...  

a second version...

Sun Flower, Pyramid and the Tree of Peace #2

Gathered Stinging Nettles Urtica dioica sp. on Solstice morning and here it is hanging briefly before I set in the darkness of a dry shed. In gathering I allowed it to sting me with its acidic virtues into a two day itch for my joints, bones and kidneys. The itch and swelling time can be an indication of ones' needs for the healing powers of this fine herb. I've had more intense reactions in previous years so I'm happily not scratching, grin...
The energetics of Summer Solstice and the perigee Full Moon in Capricorn instill me with Belief!, caring for others within the family circle and outward, and strengthening my own knees/needs...

One of my teachers and a good friend is Ryan Drum. Check out       http://www.ryandrum.com/wildcrafting.htm to read his articles on wildcrafting Stinging Nettles and other medicinals.

"bamboozling (Mars in Gemini sq nSat Virgo and opp nSun/Moon Sag)"

6 Act Play Photo Sketch

view top to bottom, bottom to top. right to left, ...

                                     

  

                                            "Lavender trimmings grid recycle installation"

                     ....there are many endings that will carry us to many beginnings..... 

 

previous lavender trimmings grid installations:

http://gregpatch.blogspot.com/2013/04/blog-post_29.html

http://gregpatch.blogspot.com/2013/04/lavender-trimmings-grid-dune.html

http://gregpatch.blogspot.com/2013/04/lavender-trimmings-webh-installations.html

http://gregpatch.blogspot.com/2013/04/these-sculptural-pieces-relate-to-great.html

http://gregpatch.blogspot.com/2013/04/snows-cut-installment-1-snows-cut-is.html

http://gregpatch.blogspot.com/2013/04/azalea-installation-this-photo-sketch.html

http://gregpatch.blogspot.com/2013/03/outside-or-outer-installation-sketches.html

http://gregpatch.blogspot.com/2012/08/lavender-trimmings-grid.html

hope you enJoy this little video sketch I shot on Topsail Island NC as a/part of the 

Lavender trimmings grid installation series...

"Lavender trimmings grid wave installation"

tomorrow's post will be the last in the series...

the previous lavender trimmings grid installations:

http://gregpatch.blogspot.com/2013/04/lavender-trimmings-grid-dune.html

http://gregpatch.blogspot.com/2013/04/lavender-trimmings-webh-installations.html

http://gregpatch.blogspot.com/2013/04/these-sculptural-pieces-relate-to-great.html

http://gregpatch.blogspot.com/2013/04/snows-cut-installment-1-snows-cut-is.html

http://gregpatch.blogspot.com/2013/04/azalea-installation-this-photo-sketch.html

http://gregpatch.blogspot.com/2013/03/outside-or-outer-installation-sketches.html

http://gregpatch.blogspot.com/2012/08/lavender-trimmings-grid.html