Last Song on Yupo

11"x11" Yupo, acrylic, collage and ink. Another favorite Dylan lyric, "Trying to get to Heaven before they close the door!" This lyric has many personal heart connections and some dry humor as well. The door is the thin Styrofoam plate I've used for prints...so it ends it's usefulness as a plate here. I plan on framing them with black painted wood frames...floating them instead of matting. This is actually the 9Th in 10 efforts I proposed. The tenth was just a major flop. It had some great elements, the connection to a favorite lyric didn't translate and so "I quit". I think it's important to quit on occasion....good for mental health! ha The quality of being able to wipe off or rub off color was a plus and a minus with this plastic paper. When I work again on this paper, I will be sure to use different materials to see what happens. I have a couple of canvases in various sizes and I intend to start without intention...to follow what shows up and enjoy no direction as a perfect direction!

On a personal note, Pablo is home from his Nevada trip. He was forewarned about my hair cut and color and he kept the yells down to just first sightings? ha Actually he has adjusted well and is only unhappy about the buzzed hair in the back...really short...little too short for me as well.
Enjoy your week!

Lyrics by Dylan

Sorry about the glare. 11"x11" yupo, acrylic, ink, stencil and collage. A favorite line in a Bob Dylan song "It's not dark yet but it's getting there" rings true to my fascination and love of dusk. In ancient times twilight was perceived beginning at the sighting of the first three stars in the sky. The anticipation of nightfall is intriguing to me...the in between of day and night....again, threshold. It brings up memories, and longings for me. In this piece I added stars cut out of a thin piece of lino and then stars cut away in another piece of lino. I have two more in this series and two more lyrics from favorite songs have come up for me as inner conversation.

On a personal note, Pablo is in Las Vegas researching for his book (life is good!) and I have been home re-inventing my appearance. I'm tired of coloring my hair so I had the hairdresser pull out the remaining color...I'm now mostly white with a touch of blond...my hairstyle is buzzed in the back and bangs and side sweep in the front...a relaxed 'Rihana' style. ! I also am about five shades darker as I used a self-tanning product. I miss Pablo but I have also taken this time for cooking all my favorites...eggplant, Mediterranean dishes that he isn't crazy about. I have two more days of free time so I might just rearrange some furniture?Someone will have some adjusting to do on homecoming! ha

Letters and Numbers 5, 6 & 7

This one of three 11"x11" yupo, acrylic, collage and ink. I copied this Q&A from an article in a Parabola magazine on the subject of Threshold. Here I've used my personal form of markings...the divide bars and lines and numbers, all ways I connect with the passing of time and moving across thresholds.


This piece 11"x11", yupo, acrylic, collage and ink. Looking closely on the left side is the title to one of my favorite fables "Running Between Two Suns". I have been wanting to use this piece of plaid suiting for years and here I finally did. Again the markings, thresholds between two worlds.


This one 11"x11" yupo, acrylic, collage and ink. The conversation was strongly about words, letters markings. The left side has a collage copy of a fragment from Einstein's notes and the other side has a fence drawn by me in colored inks with my left hand as well as my own letters and numbers and marks. A combination of the complex and the simple in lines.

Probably over explained all my markings, thoughts, meditations and such....everyone has their own reactions to art. Mainly I wanted to share my process of ongoing conversations from within which guide my art making. I'm down to my last three of Yupo paper. It has been interesting and I will add yupo to my studio as an alternative to paper, canvas, foam core or panels. Actually I'm thinking of returning to boxes this summer...no end to studio fun!!