Invocation (1/7)
The narrow bud opens her beauties to the sun (2/7)
Answer July (3/7)
Hot sun, cool fire (4/7)
Ah, Sun-flower! (5/7)
Adieu, farewell earth's bliss (6/7)
Ring out, wild bells (7/7)
Passing of the Year Series
Acrylic on Canvas, 2019
These seven paintings represent the text of seven poems by the poets William Blake, Emily Dickinson, Thomas Nashe, and Alfred Lord Tennyson, as well as the music from Johnathan Dove's contemporary choral piece "The Passing of the Year," composed for a double chorus and piano in 2000. Western Washington University's Concert Choir performed this piece in the 2019 Spring Choir Concert under the direction of Dr. Leslie Guelker-Cone.
These seven paintings represent the text of seven poems by the poets William Blake, Emily Dickinson, Thomas Nashe, and Alfred Lord Tennyson, as well as the music from Johnathan Dove's contemporary choral piece "The Passing of the Year," composed for a double chorus and piano in 2000. Western Washington University's Concert Choir performed this piece in the 2019 Spring Choir Concert under the direction of Dr. Leslie Guelker-Cone.
Resilience
Acrylic on Canvas, 2018
A New York Times article titled "Shorebirds, the World's Greatest Travelers, Face Extinction" written by the director of the Cornell Lab of Ornithology, John Fitzpatrick, inspired me to create this piece. These far-traveling birds may look comedic at first glance, but they are remarkable in their ability to travel distances spanning across the globe in a matter of days. Their decline is devastating and demands our attention because we, too, depend upon shorelines and bodies of water that are in danger due to the systemic illness of urbanization.
Fitzpatrick writes: "The global collapse of migratory shorebird populations is much more than a calamity facing a group of exquisitely evolved birds. It also tells us that our global network of aquatic systems is fraying. If water is the world’s lifeblood and aquatic systems are its connective tissue, then the decline of the planet’s most spectacular global travelers signals a systemic illness that demands our attention and action."
The painting includes these threatened or endangered shorebirds:
Australian Painted-snipe
Far Eastern Curlew
Bar-tailed Godwit
Spoon-billed Sandpiper
Wood Snipe
Piping Plover
Spotted Greenshank
Sociable Lapwing
Great Knot
Article:
www.nytimes.com/interactive/2018/04/27/opinion/shorebirds-extinction-climate-change.html
A New York Times article titled "Shorebirds, the World's Greatest Travelers, Face Extinction" written by the director of the Cornell Lab of Ornithology, John Fitzpatrick, inspired me to create this piece. These far-traveling birds may look comedic at first glance, but they are remarkable in their ability to travel distances spanning across the globe in a matter of days. Their decline is devastating and demands our attention because we, too, depend upon shorelines and bodies of water that are in danger due to the systemic illness of urbanization.
Fitzpatrick writes: "The global collapse of migratory shorebird populations is much more than a calamity facing a group of exquisitely evolved birds. It also tells us that our global network of aquatic systems is fraying. If water is the world’s lifeblood and aquatic systems are its connective tissue, then the decline of the planet’s most spectacular global travelers signals a systemic illness that demands our attention and action."
The painting includes these threatened or endangered shorebirds:
Australian Painted-snipe
Far Eastern Curlew
Bar-tailed Godwit
Spoon-billed Sandpiper
Wood Snipe
Piping Plover
Spotted Greenshank
Sociable Lapwing
Great Knot
Article:
www.nytimes.com/interactive/2018/04/27/opinion/shorebirds-extinction-climate-change.html
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Weather Phenomena
Acrylic on Canvas, 2018
Pieces painted to match weather phenomena, set to an Estonian choral piece about the seasons under the direction of Professor Tim Fitzpatrick.
Pieces painted to match weather phenomena, set to an Estonian choral piece about the seasons under the direction of Professor Tim Fitzpatrick.