Kenneth's Trees & Painted Fans

How sometimes everything

closes up, a painted fan, landscapes and moments

flowing together until the sense of distance ---

say, between Clapp's Pond and me ---

vanishes, edges slide together

like the feathers of a wing, everything

touches everything.

( from Clapp's Pond -- Mary Oliver )

Saint Ethedreda's

Finding a Fossil

 on easter day at Ovingdean

( it's 80 million years old )

Which reminds me

of the fact that every image needs a text to protect it......

and every text needs someone to de-code it

( Marlene Dumas---Sweet Nothings )

The Private View

It Is Accomplished

Eclipse/Equinox/Leaving

( back soon Shim )

Night flower, unused Crate, Wada's Book

this plan went astray

the crate was too heavy

( Mirran will see that the paintings get to London )

nearly ready to go

Inked Glass & Swans

Marks left after mono printing ( B )

& still from Margaret Tait film

Charted by the Satellites

the pearl in the lobster's claw

( Stove & bay for Map Orkney Month )

Forming the Pearl

2nd attempt

Metal Stamps

( from the Scarth Centre Warehouse )

Not Everything is Possible

I do not remember who first said to me, if anyone did:

Not everything is possible;

some things are impossible,

 and took me by my hand, kindly,

and led me back

from wherever I was. 

from A POEM FOR THE BLUE HERON ( Mary Oliver )

Take them All

27  

( except for Venus in the day )

precariously balanced

Kitchen II

Garden

How slow the Wind --

how slow the sea --

how late their Feathers be!

( 1571  E.D. )

Coming Soon

When Cogs -- stop -- that's Circumference --

-- the Ultimate of Wheels.

( 633 -- Emily Dickinson ) 

For Daniel

Paul Klee -- Tightropewalker

&

He goes by -- suspiciously

The Year of the Green Horned Animal

a peaceful time

( found on the bay by Brendan today )

Hanging Laundry

and passing boat

Waves Blown Sideways

Winter's ending

in Nellie's garden

Susie's feathers

& drawings of Jannis Kounellis

Table

Rosegarden

Sandpool

Long Grass / Midsummer

The Invisible Bird

See how the invisible bird

sings like a bowstring.

( Mikhail Aizenberg )

& Mizue Yoshimura

The Milwaukee & the Ladder

look Aaron --- Progress

Mirran's Scaup