Science-Nature: weather || Experience: adversity || Thought-Feeling-Spirit: optimism
Showing posts with label tag: Science-Nature. Show all posts
Showing posts with label tag: Science-Nature. Show all posts
Thursday, March 3, 2016
Inebriation by Optimism ::: (4-5) [6-7]
Science-Nature: weather || Experience: adversity || Thought-Feeling-Spirit: optimism
poem: For The Creative Day ::: (8-9) [10-11]
Science & Nature: challenges to species & planet, mortality || History & Culture: generations, technology, abundance || Thought-Feeling-Spirit: optimism, pessimism
poem text:
Yes,
we are passionate about our project.
We are passionate not because we presume
that we,
finally,
are the ones to save our imperfect species and threatened planet,
but because it is our turn.
painting: Winter Trek's Reward ::: (10-11) [12-13]
Science-Nature: Season-Winter || Medium: watercolor, plein air
painting: Warm Refuge ::: poem: With Cold Numbing Your Cheeks ::: (12-13) [14-15]
Science-Nature: winter weather || Experience: warmth, privacy in public || Community: city || Painting Inspired by Poem || Medium: acrylic wash on paper
poem text:
With cold numbing your cheeks
and hood hiding your face,
come through the wind and door to the empty chair.
Then a view,
facing street,
heated stove,
rippled heat.
painting: In the Hands of Time ::: poem: Hand-Me-Down of Hand-Me-Downs ::: (14-15) [16-17]
Science-Nature: birth-aging || History-Culture: generations || Community: family || Existing Painting & Poem Reflect Each Other || Medium: acrylic on canvas
poem text:
It is privilege beyond merit
to see a hand-me-down of hand-me-downs
of shell and flesh security.
painting: Snowlight ::: poem: Let Beautiful Winter, poem: My Common Stove ::: (16-17) [18-19]
Science-Nature: Season-winter || History & Culture: wealth in the work of others || Experience: observation-contemplation || Community: family-neighbor-stranger || Thought-Feeling-Spirit: wishful, prayerful, hopeful || Poem (Let B...) Inspired by Painting || Existing Painting & Poem (My Common ...) reflect each other || Medium: acrylic on canvas
Poems text:
Let beautiful winter spiral up
from each autumn's gold
to uncoil gladly
into same earthen chalice
from which dutiful summer must spring.
....
My stove knows how to burn its firewood,
how to respond
to me who knows so little of what it knows,
to me who does not know how to make a stove.
painting: Almost Spring in Redfeather ::: poem: Otherwise Meadow ::: (18-19) [20-21]
Science-Nature: alpine meadow || Experience: observation || Thought-Feeling-Spirit: contemplation || Poem Inspired by Painting || Medium: pastel
poem text:
Clump of grass
and others scattered
strong
dormant
brown
painting: Fibian ::: poem: I am Fibian ::: (26-27) [28-29]
Science-Nature: endangered species, amphibian decline, camouflage || Thought-Feeling-Spirit: concern || Painting Inspired by Poem || Art in Illustration
poem text:
I am Fibian,
northern leopard frog.
This place is one of my spots.
I was once so common
along Cache La Poudre River,
up and down
across North America
painting: Sun on Their Faces (detail) ::: poem: Turn to Sun ::: (32-33) [34-35]
Science-Nature: earth-spin-orbit, Buckminster Fuller, Helio-photo-tropism || History & Culture: rural towns & fields || Experience: long drive || Thought-Feeling-Spirit: wistful conjecture || Existing Painting & Poem Reflect Each Other || Medium: acrylic on canvas
poem text:
This early morning
he passes from Mississippi headwater
out of woodland and wetland
across the Red River onto North Dakota
—rolling plain of North Dakota—
painting: Glimpse of Old Town ::: poem: Will Archeologist Dig Us Up? (34-35) [36-37]
Science-Nature: archeology, soil erosion-accretion, composting || History & Culture: today as history, what survives? || Community || Thought-Feeling-Spirit: humility, wistful conjecture || Painting Inspired by Poem || Medium: acrylic wash on paper
poem text:
We inter kitchen waste in our garden where it helps us produce
tomatoes,
lettuce,
and beans,
drawing: Watchdog ::: poem: Good Day, Passers-by ::: (38-39) [40-41]
Science-Nature: prairie dog, man-nature-conflict, interdependent species, habitat conservation || History & Culture: "taming" of prairie || Community: among-with animals || Thought-Feeling-Spirit: attitude adjustment, concern || Existing Painting & Poem Reflect Each Other || Pencil Study
poem text:
Good day, Passer-by,
I watch you pass.
I am pleased when you stop.
painting: My Trusty Steed ::: poem: The Bicycle ::: (40-41) [42-43]
poem text:
The bicycle is a kind machine.
It will take you up any road up any hill,
if, indeed, your muscle will.
poem: Fortuitous Stop in McCook ::: (42-43) [44-45]
poem text:
We drive easton western high plain,
through hill-full prairie,
under afternoon sun,
into the Nebraska town of McCook.
painting: Swaying Stalk, painting: Harvest Ready ::: poem: My Weather ::: (46-47) [48-49]
Science Nature: seasons, weather, grow-harvest food || Thought-Feeling-Spirit: work-enjoyment || Existing Painting & Poem Reflect Each Other || Acrylic+medium on Tile
poem text:
In the spring,
farmer and I
conflict over rain,
as do I
with the me
in my garden.
paintings: Carnivore at Sleep & Birds on a Wire ::: poem: Two Men Chanced Together in Their Flight :::(48-49) [50-51]
poem text
touching shoulders, going southward on a flight.
There this one man told the birdman his long story,
seeking confirmation that in truth what happened
. . . . . . . . . . is what he saw.
Wednesday, March 2, 2016
painting: Leaf ::: poem: Leaf on My Floor ::: (52-53) [54-55]
Science & Nature: lifecycle of leaf, autumnal coloring || Experience: chance observation || Thought-Feeling-Spirit: nuisance or beauty, guilt and appreciation
poem text:
inside my house,
in through my door,
you, done with your work,
unwanted leaf,
get out!
out to my fire to burn!
poem: Looks Forward and Backward ::: (56-57) [58-59]
Science & Nature: flood ,,,, Experience: a walk ,,,, Thought-Feeling-Spirit: a good day
poem text:
He walked,
crossed a bridge (rebuilt since falling to the flood)
turned down-creek
to that house of that friend who left today,
carried loaded boxes from basement to truck,
and worked till all were gone.
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