Painting as I see it.
An abstract painting may be difficult for others to get into, but is has been necessary for me to deal with the shit from Sept. ’24 to the present. Hurricane Helene Helicopters is about the chaos of the flooding and high winds. We can hear the helicopters which were bringing aid. The sound echoes off the mountains even when they weren’t visible. The boxes are a recurring symbol in my work. They are prayers.
We live an hour west of Asheville, NC. We had no power for 8 days, roads washed out, but nothing like Asheville did. Despite the conspiracy theorists, helicopters were bringing in supplies and looking for survivors as soon as they could. FEMA and National Guard. In the mountains I hear them long before I see them.
I have tried to put in some of the chaos of this disaster. Here are five iterations of this painting.
Even being in the middle of it, the destruction is hard to believe. Gregg and I went for eight days without power, but we had food, water, and many godsends. Brandon Mitchell from Virginia and his buddy brought a truckload of supplies and a starlink. Brandon wandered into my studio, and really looked. Most people are off put. He liked this one, and we made a deal. THANKS to all of the volunteers helping us get through this.
Summer in WNC.
Open Says Me
This webstuff looks easy when Gregg and Forrest do it! I try. These are two more paintings that I didn’t post as I went along. Sounds like a New Years Resolution in the offing.
Forrest and Gregg have helped me update my website. Check it out. My bad, no blog posts for too long. I have been working. Here are a few pieces that you may not have seen. Echoes Encore is 17″x108″. I have posted half here. Next is photo of me with work in progress. Verdant is 46″x54″. Spring and summer garden.
I never was able to grow an avocado tree from a seed. My compost heap did. I dug it up, and put it in a bucket, to go inside for the winter. A while later another plant presented itself in that pot,
a squash of some kind. This morning the squash bloomed. Summer color in Dec.!
The Folly’s are small 3D collages. We have lots of pieces left over from other projects, and some of them seem to gather. This one merely needed glue, and a sprig of lavender.
The natural world has more loops and spirals, than straight lines.
Limiting women’s rights with laws and penalties occurs in every state.