"Cancer Full Moon phasings"

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"Cancer Full Moon phasings"

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"Cancer Full Moon phasings"

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and with the "Curly Dock" processing;

this would make a great installation with the Dock sprouting, rooting and growing into the paper
the 6" x 6"s and the old moss/lichen picnic table...

perhaps sitting under the old apple tree.... Use your imagination and watch it grow. With time limitations and wanting to unload the press to catch the effects of the Dock root with the paper I chose to break it down. To catch up here it may help to check out this previous entry...  http://gregpatch.blogspot.com/2013/07/before-dismantling-press.html

and then with the prints I felt I wanted to place a wash of a variant color upon the prints for contrast and a softening. I used coffee w/cream (1/2 & 1/2, where cassein is derived from). Hope you enjoy these finished? pieces.

Curly Dock 1

Curly Dock 2

Curly Dock 3

Curly Dock 4

before dismantling the press...

... the sprouting Curly Dock roots after dismantling the press.

a couple feet observing the prints before drying...

 

some notes;

I cleared an area of Broadleaf Dock Rumex obtusifolius for my landloard. Related to Yellow or Curly Dock Rumex crispus, it doesn't have quite the content level of berberines, and is a lighter shade of yellow. It is aptly medicinal with less intensity. 

After rinsing I strew the roots upon four Khadi papers in the rain (medium: watercolor). Then I pulverized with a granite stone and placed some rotting, moldy, mossy, wet 6" x 6"s I borrowed from the woodpile to press (grid markers). We're due for some heavy rains... the "rest" will be up to nature's enfoldment. A final lathering with whole milk goat yogurt will finish the pieces...

I've been eating rabbit this past week... pareidolia expression?

egg carton foundation for the art

(46 weeks in the compost) 

the last three stages of the the composting 

                                     

a little shoveling 

 & raking and...

these are finalizing photo sketches of ecffta 

as life and as we move along...

45 = 9
the last shoot, 46 as 1, will be next week
with new beginnings...

egg carton foundation for the art

(45 weeks in the compost) 

                                              some of the brush removed by the neighbor

 enThanks all...

egg carton foundation for the art

(44 weeks in the compost)

egg carton foundation for the art 

(43 weeks in the compost)

egg carton foundation for the art 

(42 weeks in the compost)

egg carton foundation for the art (41 weeks in the compost)

a dramatic transformation with ecffta occurred over the weekend when the 

Land Lord cut down his dead Loquat tree and tossed it on the compost creating a superimposed grid...

 egg carton foundation for the art (39 weeks in the compost)

and a couple PM shots with West Sun light

egg carton foundation for the art (38 weeks in the compost)

egg carton foundation for the art (37 weeks in the compost)

 

egg carton foundation for the arts to compost (thirty six weeks in the compost)

egg carton foundation for the arts 2/20/13a

egg carton foundation for the arts 2/20/13b

egg carton foundation for the arts to compost (thirty five weeks in the compost)

egg carton foundation for the arts to compost (thirty five weeks in the compost)

egg carton foundation for the arts to compost (thirty four weeks in the compost)

egg carton foundation for the arts to compost (thirty one weeks in the compost)

egg carton foundation for the arts to compost (thirty one weeks in the compost)

posted this afternoon with a stronger sun light...