what crowns morn
ing what binds begin
ning connects
endings to
portaled timelessness what re
news continues life
if not birds
if not stars if not
dawn if not
rain wind sky
if not fertile earth turning
into trees—what then?
For earthweal, spending some time with trees. My painting is, once again, inspired by Joan Mitchell’s tree paintings which I return to again and again.
K. 
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Thanks Ron.
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Without the tree, the canvas looks like rainbow cosmoplasm. With tree, creation begins. Beautiful poetry, like the way you laid it out on the page with the words disjointed like formless cosmoplasm. I like the texture in the trees and on the canvas. So creative!
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Thanks Jade. I first monoprinted over it, but I wasn’t satisfied, so I tried these acrylic pouch paints that have different nozzles to squeeze out the paint. Something else to further explore.
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Kerfe, doesn’t it feel like Christmas morning when you go into the art supplies store? Ordering them online just isn’t the same.
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I did order these online, a long time ago, because they had them in metallic colors. But I’ve only tried out the nozzles recently. They’ve closed all the good art supply stores I used to go to. It’s depressing. Not that I would be taking the subway to any of them right now.
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fantastic texture, painting and pen ~
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Thanks M.
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I love the circularity of the poem, its weaving tendrils, like a basket of tree-song. How empty and bare we are without it.
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Thanks Brendan. We keep losing trees here to disease and storms. Those stumps leave a lot of empty space. When an entire forest is lost…
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lovely lines and that art is really stunning … I would love to have it hanging in my cottage 🙂
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Thanks Kate. I’m always inspired by trees.
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I love nature so much I’d be hard put to say which aspects I enjoy most 🙂 But trees are up there, sky, water, moon, sun, flowers, birds ….
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all of the above
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If not, then when. We would definitely have a different type of planet without trees. I love the colored, textured lines of the painting.
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Thanks Merril. I can’t imagine it. But it feels too close for comfort.
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This is beautiful written and the reader cannot help but wonder if not, then when? The artwork truly compliments the thought process.
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Thanks. I think we are all wondering that.
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That’s a beautiful painting, and the way the words of the poem wind through the lines is very effective: is this a particular form?
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Thanks Ingrid. It’s shadorma–one of my favorite forms. I often break words up when writing them, although not so much with other forms. I’m not sure why.
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makes me want to reach and touch the colours
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Thanks Laura. I was glad to be able to get some of the texture of trees too.
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I love the “portaled timelessness”. The whole idea of trees as portals has always fascinated me.
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I do believe they are. We just don’t know where or how to look for them.
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So true.
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Thanks Ken. If only more people paid attention…
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