Beam

Shot from an innocent cloud, the landscape touched by an iridescent ray of sky.

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Undulations

Guided by centrifugal force the ink finds the pulp, resonating waviness.

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Bear

Mountain spirit of old, patiently lumbering through scrub oak and sage brush, foraging for the inevitable winter ahead.

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Petal to the Medal

Strength in winning, from seed to flower, the cycle of existence persists. Survival of the fittest? Or survival of those that don’t die…but weren’t necessarily fit.

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Autumn

With fragrant dried grasses and leaves boundaries of winter are established. Fenced once more, are you keeping something in? Or keeping something out?

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Star

Found by a friend, distant yet not alone. Take late arrivals not hastily but withy-worthy of substance, not abuse.

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Direction

Saturated in ink within the confines of gravity. Used as a pendulum my brush grazes the pulpy grasslands of a blank page.

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The Soup

My favorite metaphor for the current world transition, first pointed out to me by Norie Huddle (Butterfly, 1990), is that of a butterfly in metamorphosis.
It goes like this: A caterpillar crunches its way through its ecosystem, cutting a swath of destruction by eating as much as hundreds of times its weight in a day, until it is too bloated to continue and hangs itself up, its skin then hardening  into a chrysalis.
Inside this chrysalis, deep in the caterpillar’s body, tiny things biologists call ‘imaginal disks’ begin to form. Not recognizing the newcomers, the caterpillar’s immune system snuffs them as they arise. But they keep coming faster and faster, then linking up with each other.
Eventually the caterpillar’s immune system fails from the stress and the disks become imaginal cells that build the butterfly by feeding on the soupy meltdown of the caterpillar’s body.
It took a long time for biologists to understand the reason for the  immune system attack on the incipient butterfly cells, but eventually they discovered that the butterfly has its own unique genome, carried by the caterpillar, inherited from long ago in evolution, yet not part of it as such (Margulis & Sagan, Acquiring Genomes 2002).
If we see ourselves as imaginal discs working to build the butterfly of a better world, we will understand that we are launching a new ‘genome’ of values and practices to replace that of the current unsustainable system. We will also see how important it is to link with each other in the effort, to recognize how many different kinds of imaginal cells it will take to build a butterfly with all its capabilities and colors.
– Elisabet Sahtouris, Ph.D., evolution biologist, lecturer and author of EarthDance: Living Systems in Evolution

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Sumi

Sophisticated strokes seldom seen, serendipitously serine. Meditating medicates moments miraculously, meaningful mezzanine.

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Particles

A sea of dust and ash rising, falling, swirling until finally deciding to settle with a little pull from gravity.

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Daisy Matrix

Intricacies of nature linked through design.

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Summertime

Planted last year they didn’t sprout, but this year they are blooming.

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Wander

Opulent thoughts of responsibility to oneself. The true calling inside follows through with action.

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Yoginī

The term is used for female practitioners of yoga as well as divine goddesses and enlightened mothers. “Recognize the tendencies that make you unique.” -Paramahansa Yogananda

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Diagonal

Shift in consciousness, shallow coincidence or serendipitous creation? Share your choice, surrounded by calm.

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Containers

To hold something, a solid foundation of support. Stash it away, bury it deep or display it proudly.

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Bottles

Light of shades, shadows left lurking, scorched sun shining.

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Open Road

Music blaring through flying air, purpose and destination, a winning combination.

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Agave Azul

Native of Jalisco, Mexico, tequila agave is produced by removing the heart (piña) of the plant in its twelfth year. Harvested piñas normally weigh 36 to 91 kg (80–200 lb). It is rare for one kept as a houseplant to flower.

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View

Panes containing perspective, frames fragmented.
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Formations

Visibly clouded. Photograph copyright (c) Trevi Bennett 2012

Rain Dance

Clouds, rays of the sun and spirits dancing.

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Persistence

Reach out, express, think concept, visual, epiphanies. Attention to descriptions, delicately deceiving.

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Nothing

Easy to accomplish, set cruise and let the glaze begin. To do something, anything, is a greater feat than apathy.

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Innocent

Guiltlessness, intrinsic in all of us? Wasn’t it a fact until we believed otherwise?

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Setting

The mark of another day and a the promise of a new night slipping away. Giving a moment instead of taking the time.

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Inverted

Turned, twisted, tweaked, yet still taking time to feel life’s intricacies. Do you blend with the wallpaper or pop your color like a purple Pansie?

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Captivity

Taken from your native home to a strange land. Caged and kept, what is it like?

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End

A jumble of glittered alphabetical stickers, silver paper transfer, Egyptian hieroglyphic images set in stone, powdered lapis lazuli, and the epic I Grade Records logo with Vaughn of Midnite.

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Lines

Inspired by music I took a challenge to limit my palette and simplify the form.

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Sand

Rising temperatures solidifying minute particles into clarity. Solder holding the gently cut forms, forming a larger form. Are we all not simply faceted particulate matter?

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Essence

Alkaline absorbing, acidic animosity awaiting, avoiding advert-isements arising.
Delusional deductions, derelicts directing democracy, deman-ding demons.

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Aesthetic

A branch of philosophy dealing with the nature of beauty, art, and taste. More scientifically it is defined as the study of sensori-emotional values, sometimes called judgments of sentiment and taste. Scholars in the field define aesthetics as “critical reflection on art, culture and nature.”

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