'Lily', MM, Morning Glory Farm, Martha's Vineyard, 2012
'Lily', MM, Morning Glory Farm, Martha's Vineyard, 2012

I am drawn to forms in nature which express transition-a breaking through-which capture the energy of emergence. Here are several images from photographer Karl Blossfeldt, which continue to transfix me,  as well as some images of my own photographs and related work.

Karl Blossfeldt, from 'Art Forms in Nature'
Karl Blossfeldt, from 'Art Forms in Nature'
'Magnolia', MM, Portland, OR, 2012
'Magnolia', MM, Portland, OR, 2012
'Growth and Ramification', from Paul Klee's 'The Nature of Nature'
'Growth and Ramification', from Paul Klee's 'The Nature of Nature'
Karl Blossfeldt, from 'Art Forms in Nature'
Karl Blossfeldt, from 'Art Forms in Nature'
'Lean', MM, salt fired stone ware, Portland, OR, 2012
'Lean', MM, salt fired stone ware, Portland, OR, 2012
MM, Portland, 0R 2012
MM, Portland, 0R 2012

salt fired clay forms, thrown and carved, image from installation.

'Magnolia Light', MM, Portland, OR, 2012
'Magnolia Light', MM, Portland, OR, 2012
Paul Klee, The Nature of Nature
Paul Klee, The Nature of Nature

"A certain impetus from without, the relation to earth and atmosphere, begets the capacity to grow. The slumbering tendency towards form and articulation awakens in predetermined precision, determined with reference to the underlying idea, to the logos, or, as the translation runs: the word, which was in the beginning.  The word as promise, as the idea required for the genesis of a work. In abstract terms, what we have here is the irritated point as latent energy."

-Paul Klee, The Nature of Nature

'Reach', MM, Portland, OR 2012
'Reach', MM, Portland, OR 2012
'Ascend', MM, Portland, OR, 2012
'Ascend', MM, Portland, OR, 2012
'Wring', MM, salt fired stone ware, Portland, OR, 2012
'Wring', MM, salt fired stone ware, Portland, OR, 2012
'Lily', MM, Morning Glory Farm, Martha's Vineyard, 2012
Karl Blossfeldt, from 'Art Forms in Nature'
'Magnolia', MM, Portland, OR, 2012
'Growth and Ramification', from Paul Klee's 'The Nature of Nature'
Karl Blossfeldt, from 'Art Forms in Nature'
'Lean', MM, salt fired stone ware, Portland, OR, 2012
MM, Portland, 0R 2012
'Magnolia Light', MM, Portland, OR, 2012
Paul Klee, The Nature of Nature
'Reach', MM, Portland, OR 2012
'Ascend', MM, Portland, OR, 2012
'Wring', MM, salt fired stone ware, Portland, OR, 2012
'Lily', MM, Morning Glory Farm, Martha's Vineyard, 2012

I am drawn to forms in nature which express transition-a breaking through-which capture the energy of emergence. Here are several images from photographer Karl Blossfeldt, which continue to transfix me,  as well as some images of my own photographs and related work.

Karl Blossfeldt, from 'Art Forms in Nature'
'Magnolia', MM, Portland, OR, 2012
'Growth and Ramification', from Paul Klee's 'The Nature of Nature'
Karl Blossfeldt, from 'Art Forms in Nature'
'Lean', MM, salt fired stone ware, Portland, OR, 2012
MM, Portland, 0R 2012

salt fired clay forms, thrown and carved, image from installation.

'Magnolia Light', MM, Portland, OR, 2012
Paul Klee, The Nature of Nature

"A certain impetus from without, the relation to earth and atmosphere, begets the capacity to grow. The slumbering tendency towards form and articulation awakens in predetermined precision, determined with reference to the underlying idea, to the logos, or, as the translation runs: the word, which was in the beginning.  The word as promise, as the idea required for the genesis of a work. In abstract terms, what we have here is the irritated point as latent energy."

-Paul Klee, The Nature of Nature

'Reach', MM, Portland, OR 2012
'Ascend', MM, Portland, OR, 2012
'Wring', MM, salt fired stone ware, Portland, OR, 2012
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