See How the Water Falls at AMP Gallery Provincetown

The installation, "See How the Water Falls" is up and running in the courtyard at 148 Commercial Street in Provincetown. The first show of the season opens Saturday, May 23, 6-9 pm.
I made this water and clay work with Ned Levering. We intend for the piece to continue to flow and to change through out the season. Here's a few early shots:

ahdo mukha vriksasana

Uttanasana

EARTH effects Exhibition Opening

 

My work is included in this five person, international exhibit opening Thursday at the Nave Gallery in Somerville, MA. In addition to a clay installation called Earth Tones, pictured below, I have elected to show the first digital prints from 8 years of documenting the eroding dunes at the edge of earth and sea in the Cape Cod National Seashore in Wellfleet. For me this is about the persistence and constancy of change. Geologic morphology occurs on a time scale that makes it generally imperceptible to us, but here, at Newcomb Hollow, where the water and wind and tides undermine the fragile cliffs of clay and sand and stone, we can see it happen. It reminds me that we are but a grain of sand in time and space, waiting for a breath of wind to blow us to the next landing.

Fractal mystery comes of turning the image

January Calm/Low Tide

Sand Fall

Approach

  

Earth Tones, ceramic installation

Fluvial Processes

Project:

Fluvial Processes

For more on this: Project::Erosion Blog
Sand flows from the dune cliff onto the growing pile at the foot. The banner above is the same...one grain at a time.
The undermined clay outcropping above will likely have fallen after the next storm.

For four+ years I have been documenting the changes in the Newcomb Hollow cliffs of Wellfleet. Clay, sand, water, weather, tides, and gravity in a choreography of change.
Last fall I cast moments of the geomorphology in plaster.
I will next work with these castings on the scanner.
So much to do.
In late January a 19th Century schooner freed itself from the bottom of the sea and rolled ashore just south of the cliffs that have been my studio. The shipwreck made the news. In April a man killed himself just north of these cliffs. This too made the news. These cliffs are a force. Steady as she goes.The sand and clay continues its journey. And I continue mine.
Perhaps our lives are not that different from the life of a grain of sand. We finally work ourselves to the surface and then we hang on until the winds of life loosen us. Gravity, water, or weather takes hold and we are off to the next landing. It doesn't feel like gravity when we are walking or careening through our days, but it is or we would all be flying, no doubt.
-"It's not the letting go that is hard, it's the holding on"- Buddhist wisdom

titles and ideas

In/fluence
Forbidden words
Tick of the Heart
Paper bridge
Hard stones of thought
Temporal Stillness
Like Eroding Dunes
Tumbling Righting Wandering & Stilling
Imaginal Disks
Fluvial Processes in Geomorphology
Like a Grain of Sand clings to the the cliff of time, life, motion
In Geologic time

A new start

I retitled this blog instead of making a new one and then took out posts thinking there was a place where I had preserved them, but no luck, they are lost. Oh well, I have lost sketchbooks before. Mom always said if the idea a forgot was important it would come back. Gotta trust that wisdom.
Anyway, the new blogspot in which I am working out a project about erosion is:
projecterosion.blogspot.com
I am going there now to work.