Autumn Equinox in the fen
✴︎ Upcoming Art Workshop ✴︎
Join us on Sunday, September 29th for a day of printmaking & zine making at SafeArt in Chelsea.
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PRINTMAKING CLASS | 11 AM - 2 PM
Learn how to create simple prints from start to finish in the Printmaking class.
We will design imagery and carve into rubber blocks, making our own stamps and prints.
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ZINE MAKING CLASS | 2:30 - 4 PM
Learn how to make simple art booklets in the Zinemaking class.
This is open studio time to collage, paint, and create a reproducible booklet you can share.
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Attend both and use your freshly carved print directly into a zine!
The zine class is included in the fee but optional for those who cannot attend a full day workshop.
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Workshop fee is $30 - $50 sliding scale.
All materials included. Beginner friendly. Experienced artists welcome.
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✴︎ Late Summer Print ✴︎
This print was inspired by the way four Asteraceae family plants, native to my local area, blend their purple and yellow blooms in the landscape during the late part of Summer.
By now, up in the North, their blooms have mostly turned to seeds, but I still have a handful of copies from the First Edition of this print in my Etsy shop.
✴︎ Musings ✴︎
This time of the year is blissful and abundant, bursting with color and texture, yet everything is slowing, cooling, exhaling, falling...
What I've been observing and musing about lately:
Nature wastes nothing. Every fallen branch, every pile of leaves, every mound of soil, every pool of water... is an integral part of the whole. They work in tandem, dynamically, always in the midst of change. Always becoming something else, because of the synergy of every single ingredient. So many ingredients and micro-changes that we cannot perceive. Nature is intelligent beyond our scope of understanding. And no wonder... Nature is our ancestor! All that we know, Nature has known for much longer.
Nature provides everything. A neighboring plant is fixing nutrients in the soil for another. The ash of a fire becomes the needed ingredient in food preparation. Insects pollinate flowers which produce seeds, becoming food for another creature... A dynamic system of imperceptible relationships. Fragile if disrupted, and strong when given space to unfold.
And speaking of balance... In Nature, and in our humanimal lives, sometimes a loss equals a gain. Or, maybe, every loss is a balanced with a gain. Sometimes your loss is someone else's gain... sometimes their loss is your gain... sometimes, when you gain something, you must lose something at the same time. Sometimes tragedy creates fertile ground for growth. It can feel twisted, or painful, to acknowledge this. But it is the objective truth of balance.
Until next time,
Happy Autumnal Equinox