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Earth/Sky Enameling on etched copper; 12" x 16" Poetry celebrating the song and dance of earth, sky, wind, sun: in Navajo, Irish; English translation of a Japanese poem; and poet Joy Harjo: "open your whole self to sky, to earth, to sun, to moon" |
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Double click
the image to see "Palimpsest" at a different angle
to the light. |
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Palimpsest |
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Quotes In Palimpsest Through our eyes we inhale light and images - light and images we share with every being on earth. And out of our eyes we exhale a light or a darkness that is the spirit in which we perceive. --My Story As Told By Water But some say dust is the beginning, its slow accumulation and eventual density in space resulting in the formation of great rolling nebulae, in the emergence of expansive galactic clusters, the collapse of heavy stars into themselves. Dust, in the right circumstances, can make its own light. --"A Self-Analysis of
Dust" But as my sight by seeing learned to see, --Paradiso Make of yourselves a light --Buddha Let mine eye bless all it sees --Gaelic blessing Light upon Light --The Qur'an |
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The Literature of Being Enameling on copper; 16" x 12" Texts: Liu Xie and Robert Bringhurst. Lettering style: modified from early medieval inscriptions in Ireland |
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The Original Book Words of Robert Bringhurst: "The original book is the world." |
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Isaiah
Prophecy |
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Raven Enameling on steel; 10" x 8" These words came to me as I sat on a rock ledge in the silence at Petrified Forest, a raven flew right by; its loud wingbeats faded, echoed into silence again. |
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Waters From Stone In this
piece, textures in the stone were made using the sgraffito technique, including
scratching through the first unfired coat of enamel to reveal bare copper, which
oxidizes black on firing. The brightest greens in the foliage surrounding the
falls was made by applying tiny pieces of silver foil to the previously-fired
enamel, then firing transparent green enamels over the silver. The silver
reflects light back through the clear green glass, giving added
brilliance. The quotation (hand-inscribed using sgraffito technique) -- is John Wesley Powell's description of this site; he named the place Vasey's Paradise after the botanist on one of his Canyon expeditions. Water seeps down through the limestone, hits an impermeable rock layer, and emerges at several points in the Canyon, creating riparian micro-ecosystems from bare rock; great blue herons walk the shores within the canyon. |
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Pat Musick - musickstudio |
