rainy season rain is falling softly on parched and cracked earth the dry sand of the riverbed comes back to life the water hisses and boils then flows steady How much love is that? He says it's not a miracle.
The water paintings are about the flow of energy in the universe. We live our little lives within a great sea. Shore was an invitation to leave behind the known, “safe” place.
River grew out of recognition of the stream of love that is all around us. An image of a river coursing down a dry channel, bringing life to a self lost and alone. The poem connected with this piece came first, and then I recognized the imagery in the painting I was working on.
Kaweah river is a 2017 reconstruction of a lost painting I did in the 1980’s. It represents the memory of sitting by the Kaweah River in the Sierra Nevada, watching the green-brown depths as the powerful current flowed around boulders. I was seized by the desire to visit the green depths, and aware of the spirits of animals, especially deer, in the forest around me. Plunging in would, of course, have meant certain death, and I held myself back.
Waterfall is a more recent vision of the power of water, which I consider a metaphor for love.
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