Saturday, January 18, 2025

land translations



many days walking by the river last November and December yielded many photographs

this week I chose a few that I was especially drawn to and did a few things...


December 10, 11:45 am
Pilot Mountain

first a drawing... not trying to make a true representation, not looking at the photo at all, just drawing from memory


and then, using papers I had painted a while back, a collage

still not looking at the photo

and then I did it again


December 12 at 10:37 am
looking across the river from downtown


December 6 at 12:44
same view

December 8 at 12:57
same view, cropped

a couple of drawings







and a collage

again, not trying to follow exactly what I saw, just the impressions I was left with


and one more time...

November 25 at 1:12
The Clay Cliffs Whitehorse

a drawing



and a collage


the freedom of not trying to duplicate what I saw lets me do what I feel like, take a notion, follow an impulse

lets me learn in a way that working rigidly to an ideal can't

and then of course there is the limitation of working with papers made long before these photos were taken

good fun, learned a lot

moving on

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