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Photostudies for Winter 2016-2017
Near the beginning of an extended walk last November, I became transfixed by a tall flapping windsock outside a bakery. I ended up taking over seventy pictures of the wind-animated figure, and each one had a different pose. It was like receiving a free art class on the topic of gesture studies!
It’s astonishing how expressive fabric can be when it composes a long tube for the body, two hollow arms, and a head with strips of black cloth for hair. The different angles of the head and arms as well as various bends in the body’s “spine” gave strong impressions of joy, fatigue, despair, sass, embarrassment, playfulness, surrender, overwhelm, triumph, and humor.
I managed to reduce the number of pictures by more than half, but I still need to ask viewers’ indulgence for the quantity of images posted here. (Sending a big thank you to Veronica Paloma for her thoughtful comments on these photos when I first posted them on Facebook last fall and for providing ideas for the titles “Bliss Float,” “Cheerleader,” and “Responding to the Latin Beat.”)
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Portland, Oregon
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Images of North York and East York
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Elliot Lake, Ontario
Windwork and timework / have spun gossamer threads from / discarded old bags.
Beyond the limits / of material concerns / a dream-sky opens.
After lunch with a friend last Monday, I enjoyed a windy walk on the shore of Lake Ontario at Humber Bay Park. Much to my delight, I discovered a spontaneous outdoor gallery on top of a boulder.
Anonymous artists had curated a gathering of small Inuksuit sculptures, and I loved how the waves had become co-artists, knocking some sculptures over and leaving others intact.
Before I left the boulder gallery, I assembled an Inukshuk of my own to say thank you.
This photo of an autumnal scene inspired a collage that emerged in spring.
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Celebrating Lake Ontario!
