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Actually, I am loving this severe heatwave. If I am not in our cool basement or some other air conditioned spot, our neighbor’s pool is the place to be. Other than floating around there I have made a few quick trips to check out the yard, where things are going crazy from all the rain and sun. There is so much blooming and it looks as if we are in store for a great harvest in the next month or so. I did a few of these little flower children today and there were so many great leaves and flowers to choose from. If you think these are cool check out this book by the amazing and prolific Elsa Mora. Stay cool!
I am having an attack of SAD (seasonal affective disorder) due to the fact that I am not truly a hearty mid-westerner, though I have played one on TV for the past 24 years. This cold is really getting to me and I need to snap out of it! I was looking through photos from warmer days so I thought I would share this one from Labor day weekend 2010. We usually go up to a friend’s cabin and there is lots of time to take walks in the woods, sit down by the lake on the dock etc… and this year I did a series of these little nature portraits. There was an abundance of great textures and I came back from a stroll with my pockets FULL. The first time I made stuff like this was about 10 years ago when I was doing a “portrait a day” inspired by an artist and teacher named Mimi Holmes. We were selling work in a local shop and this (project a day or week) was an idea she used with her students. About a year later I decided to do a self portrait a day for a year and when I was on vacation in Jamaica, I made some portraits from things I found on the beach and photographed them. Ever since then I have been doing them with stuff I find in the yard or wherever. My friend Elsa Mora did a book of amazing flower people a couple years ago, check it out, all of her work is spectacular. It may be time for me to do another project a day to re-focus and get my mind off this weather induced slump because we still have a few more months of winter! Anyhow, stay warm and keep working, I will do the same.
We are back from the Minnesota Iron Range and a wonderful weekend at the Valentini family cabin with a gang of our friends. We relaxed, biked, ate, visited and sauna’d and now I am revived for my upcoming trip. Got some running around to do and then I am off to the airport! My friend Marty, filmmaker and photographer extraordinaire, did quick shots of some of the nature and junk yard “portraits” I made up north. I’ll leave you with this one, more to follow… Arriverderci kids!
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