Between the LongShadow

Between the LongShadow              digital              ©Greg Patch

"spiral fan"

"spiral fan" began in late January with playing with conceptual designing. It started out of the processing with "life is good waiting for moss to grow".  In "spiral fan" and "life is good waiting for moss to grow"  I'm experimenting with yogurt/moss growing, incorporating it as an element in my art work. In "Spiral Fan" I've simplified the yogurt/moss formula to just yogurt and the moss with its' root/dirt and am using a different genus of moss without adding hemp seed powder and am using a smaller ratio of moss. This moss is a more lush variety growing in the cracks of the concrete steps leading down into my backyard.
  

The moss in "life is good waiting for moss to grow" has not taken, creating an interesting color/texture with moss form protruding out of the yogurt. A combination of bringing it inside w/out much light and not sufficient watering it lays either dead or dormant. It may not have particularly liked yogurt! 

In this work I didn't create a bedding. I simply drilled holes in the desk surface and applied the yogurt/moss. The roadside desk is foundational and the fan created from the dead/dried fan like fronds of the backyard Windmill Chosun Palm.

With my work I'm allowing my daily environment experiences to enter into the work in an expression through the process of our/my art making. It is myself in simbiosis with my environment; animal/plant, air, earth, fire & water, all the above and the below and the meeting of my own ego and survival driven energies balance with the interchange.

recycle bin

grounded, sexy, and lasts longer than a Valentine dinner...

recycle bin                               digital                                ©Greg Patch

"in the works..." #4

left "in the works..."
aside, while waiting for a surface to appear for it. it appeared in the same pile I'd collected that were part of the same roadside desk that "crossroads" and "life is good waiting for moss to grow" utilize. each piece will finalize as hanging apparatus are determined. there will be 5  paintings in all that speak with the old desk...

previous entries for "in the works...";
#3 was made on 1/15/12
#2 was on 1/5/12
first entry made on 1/4/12

sea shell calcite spiral orbs on concrete

sea shell calcite spiral orbs on concrete                                     ©Greg Patch

Garden Drawing/Painting 2/23

"HONEY" at Greenville Art Museum

Am honored, grateful, and just a tad excited to have been selected by juror Catherine Coulter-Lloyd, Curator of the Maria V. Howard Arts Center to have "Webh Ground 1" be included in this group show running from March 15 - April 8 at the Greenville Art Museum in 

Greenville, NC. HONEY is Co-Hosted by East Carolina University and the Greenville Art Museum.

Webh Ground 1         Beeswax/Natural Pigments         16" x 24"

from the call for entry prospectus; "HONEY, "a dynamic, juried exhibition embodying and celebrating the role of the honeybee. In light of the international Colony Collapse Disorder crisis and global concerns over war, economic collapse and a worldwide food shortage, the fate of the honeybee mirrors the fate of humanity. Philosopher Rudolf Steiner noted the bees as an indicator species in developing his ideas on biodynamic farming and caring for the earth. This call for entries seeks artwork related to these issues and honoring the majestic apis mellifera."

For a clearer, more concise format of this 9 works series please vist my website 

gregpatchart:

http://bit.ly/xGcBw9

2 pt video I made on my creative process with this series of 9 works;

youtube video #1. http://bit.ly/eTEBet

youtube video #2. http://bit.ly/ylF23U

to access blog entries made, search "WebhGround Series" to your right. 

enThanks Honeybee.