Two Steps Forward, One Step Back

5"x7" Micron pen, collage, colored pencil, gouache & watercolor on paper. Postcard of Lonfellow’s home used is from the 1920's, and dog and curtain are from a painting in Innsbruck Austria. November, 2017.

This work of art is in a custom made wood, archival frame, that measures 11 1/2”x 13 1/2” x 1 1/4.” The finished work is framed in a “floating” technique that I prefer (as it shows off the edges of the paper), and is mounted on archival foam core that is covered with a white Damask cotton fabric with a light pattern upon it. There is approximately 2 1/2” of space around the artwork.

This work is an “Ontological Mooring” which was part of an an ongoing art practice about kinesthetic knowing that was begun in May of 2016. The term is what philosophers would refer to as the appreciation of and a response to what is real right here and now. In a world that is so often dissociated from the present, these works are a centering act of being in the moment.