Symbolic Projections

A Leaf on the Wind - Tissue paper, Fall leaves, Sharpie My musings have been tapering-off for a while now. A slow drain and depletion of my usual spontaneity. I’ve found myself explaining to others and myself that “I just don’t have the time I used to”...”this week has been busy”...”maybe next week?” ... “or the next”... The excuses are piling-up and so too are the stashes of ideas. Lets get one thing down, just because I have been unable to work on any one given thing for any length of time does not mean that my “warehouse” is empty. Oh, far from it. With all the work and life stresses I still ‘think’ in pictures. So, as things go when they don’t GO the way we are used-to. I now find myself compensating for my recent lack of habitual visual expression by squirreling away idea stashes. A pressed leaf, a meticulously emptied and unfolded tea bag [quite reminiscent of the mantle of turin], word clippings, and half a vespa. The stashes are everywhere. Journals and book

Altered Book - Clorox wipe tie-dye cover It is August in Florida and the rains seem to be spacing apart. Guess that means fall is approaching and with it a break from the heat and mugginess. A break from mosquitoes and excessive sweating. Every-morning I find myself cracking the backdoor in expectation of a cooling breeze, one that wont come for another month or two. It is in this anticipation that I have listened and finally decided to publish this blog. It is something I have sat-on for quite some time and avoided the plunge. Nov. 2012 As I finish my first altered book I check the first few pages for a date and find that I began making entries on October 5th, 2012.  I could stretch it and keep meddling in it until the 5th of next month, but I wont, I need to move-on. If not for anything in particular except that I have quite a plethora of viable candidates waiting to take its place.  Watercolor sketchbooks with deeply textured pages, square books for those perfect man