ready to move into the next year

And now we move into the new year, though it feels the same as the last year.  Will this new year be one of change, of revelatory insights, of new horizons?  Will it be a step in the direction of discovering new methods, new shapes, new beauty?

ink watercolor dye acrylic rives bfk 22x30

my mother and banking

My mother told me once how she learned about banking and how money works: "When I was young my father made me put very nickel in the bank, even every penny I might find.  Then it got to be 1932 and all the banks closed.  I learned everything that day."

Everything had broken down in any case, and new things had to to be made out of the fragments. -Kurt Schwitters, 1930

collage, rives bfk 11x15

collage rives bfk 11x15

collage rives bfk 11x15

I seem to be doing it again

I am repeating once again the same thing I did before...delicate balanced not my style kind of stuff...maybe it's just the season or something...I don't know, but here it is, once again...actually it is kinda pretty.

dye ink acrylic oil  rives bfk 11x15

acrylic pencil watercolor ink rives bfk 11x15

dye  rives bfk 11x15

hiraeth

hiraeth -(n.) a homesickness for a home to which you cannot return, a home which maybe never was; the nostalgia, the yearning, the grief for the lost places of your past.

dye acrylic ink watercolor pencil rives bfk 11x15

dye ink watercolor  rives bfk 11x15

acrylic watercolor dye ink  rives bfk 11x15

whiskers last paw print

dye rives bfk 11x15

the voice

You might sometimes think that accidents only occur sometimes, only occasionally in painting because after all don't they always look just like the painter's other work?   You also search for signs of growth and progress -like say Whistler's use of color or his white paintings. 

And at the same time we search for a unity in their work, a voice speaking to us.  I think most often of this voice, what it sounds like and what it is saying.  Does it speak to us of our own joys and struggles?  Does it say these things in a way that encourages empathy?

ink watercolor rives bfk 11x15

ink watercolor rives bfk 11x15

ink watercolor rives bfk 11x15

ink watercolor rives bfk 11x15