Meditations on Fall and Winter
Personal Works: Winter 2022
Prints available at Fineartamerica: Geometric Art Inspired by Quilting
M-57 Blues
M-57 is an east-west state trunkline highway in the US state of Michigan. I spent many a winter driving this 105.377-mile Michigan highway I felt the rhythm of the road and the flat as an ironing board farm fields and woodlots. I took road pictures over the years and searched for a form to express the mood. Seems like the abstract rhythm of a jazz tempo was the answer.
Intertwined
A view up into the branches of a redbud tree last fall with a vine intertwined. I am always attracted to the abstract composition that can be seen in the frame.
M-57 Blues Sky Break
The starlings that flock over the fields of corn stubble next to the highway rise up in a strong wind from the south in late January. Out of the corner of my eye, their silhouettes break into a rhythm of dark shapes beating against the sky. Across the fields, this farm that I have passed so many times sometimes looks like a ghost against the January sky dusted with snow.
The Heart of Autumn
A quilt-inspired abstraction of the forest floor from my own photography.
Oak Dance
I am currently exploring the micro-universe of abstraction found on the forest floor. Using the randomness of nature as a full participant in the process I photograph things as I find them and then transform the image into a design. I found these oak leaves chasing each other on the ground and thought it look like a ballet of color and texture. Oak leaves tend to turn themselves upside down revealing the brighter undersides.
