random inspiration

 days spent in varied ways

walking on beaches, in forests

going to museums

wandering the streets and back alleys

inspiration is everywhere...

 random things catch my attention

gathered rocks, wood, flowers

scraps of burlap, twists of twine

endless photographs...

Marsh Lake on a cold and windy morning

the scattered driftwood along the shoreline, carried up by the surging waves

tossed here and there, a random calligraphic message perhaps

a curving line of peaks and valleys - water and foam... winter mountains of summer?

gull tracks on the sand, many looking remarkably like letters

back and forth and forth and back

"where are you going, and what do you see"

faded colours of a railway crossing, a portion of the old narrow-gauge railway that ran right through the Whitehorse waterfront

the rusted, weathered sides of old equipment, abandoned here and there throughout the territory

a beautiful patina, faint letters, interesting form

wood crumbling on a long-abandoned beach,

the marks, a story of its journey back to the earth

also time for sitting still, reflecting on all I've seen, how it might tie together, how it might not

there is a space between the stories these pieces of inspiration would tell and the ones I might want to... a space for me to find understanding and look for connections

a space to just be