meet the beautiful pacific madrone tree and it’s vibrant berries.
my partner and i just bought our first home in the hills of the umpqua valley which is nestled between the pacific coast and the cascade mountain range. part of my intention with this new chapter in life is to slow down, and enjoy the environment we’ve been fortunate enough to situate ourselves in.
we’re only a few short weeks into living here, and already, the land is finding it’s ways to say hello. we have one very mature madrone, along with a few younger ones on our property. their berries had caught my eye recently and made me think of an old friend, kaycee. i remember her stringing mountain ash berries into a garland in the months before she passed away. years ago, i wrote a small poem fragment about it that simply went, “mountain ash berry strung from eye to eye.”
i recently found a cd of hers in my car that i haven’t listened to in years. i also freshly bought a discman because i’m tired of paying for all these subscriptions and find myself wanting more tangibility. also, they’re nostalgic as heck.
so all this kinda came together today pretty beautifully. i did some research on the tree and found that the berries from the madrones are quite perfect for drying out and making beads, or stringing together. i went and gathered what i could find under the mature madrone, rummaged through some craft materials to find a suitable string and needle, & popped the cd into my new-to-me jensen.
the result of all that is what you see in the above gallery - a wonderfully colorful string of berries. i also added a few graphics form an old forest service pamphlet i found on archive.org. i felt some deep heart strings being tugged throughout this little journey today that i haven’t felt in quite some time. i felt moved enough to share it here. kaycee, this one was for you. it was nice seeing you eye to eye today.
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welcome to my first wave. with it, i’d like to share this series of collages from a collection called “animated archvies.”
i find never ending inspiration in sorting through vintage post cards, photographs, and magazine articles. archive.org is a favorite library resource that allows me to enjoy this activity in the digital space. this inspiration fuels a desire to colllage, which has been a favorite creative outlet of mine for many years. i particluarly love the way it allows my subconcious mind to play with shape, texture, object, and form. my latest expressions of collage have an added layer of animation to them.
ALL DRESSED UP is a sequence of frames where the figure stares distantly, and their outfit changes like a cameleon adapting to it’s environment.
that’s all i have to say, i suppose.
until the next wave.
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top quote right now:
”i still love everyone i’ve loved. i think about them while the water boils” - unknown
key traits:
vulnerability, creativity
and living in the meadow between art&science
color combo of the moment:
dark chocolate + olive
ceramics
making stuff w found natural elements
film photography
yearning for:
the seashells, my toes in the sand & a good swim
what else:
dyslexic level 96