Conscious World Art

terra cotta statue, 11″h x 8″w x 9″d • collection of the artist Spring of 1964. Sophomore 3-D class. Teacher: sculptor Joe Goto. Assignment: Mother & Child. Medium: clay. I was fascinated to work with such a malleable material, one of the most ancient and basic of all mediums. No wonder children take to working […]

Spring of 1963. Yet more attempts at portraiture, freshman year at RISD, nostalgically evoking two close friends still back in Maine, Arel Dolby and Mary Anne Chesley. The medium: Prismacolor pencils on bond paper. Having really ‘discovered’ the exciting possibilities of colored pencils through Nature Drawing earlier that school year, I free-hand drew portraits of […]

In Search of Lost Time. 1962-63 — the last drawings of innocence. While combing through the files looking at old work in preparation for my upcoming review of sophomore year at RISD, I happened across the following 11″ x 14″ sheet, composed nostalgically during my freshman year; eleven free-hand pencil-drawings copied from 2.5″ x 3.5″ […]

Two nights ago with snow expected, and temperatures dropping below freezing I decided to protect the largest cluster of croci by covering them with an inverted glass bowl. In the morning I discovered to my surprise and delight that all the croci had survived. Even those blossoms left uncovered the night before were still standing […]

Two nights ago in-town temperatures dropped again into the 20s, with little respite during yesterdays daylight hours. Even though the day turned sunny, the croci blossoms stayed tightly closed against the cold, just as in yesterdays post. There were no noticeable changes worth photographing; although I did notice on closer inspection that a tiny sixth […]

This morning, instead of two tiny single-but-separate croci blossoms in the patch under the fig tree, there were four small clusters with at least one blossom each; and in the group shown on the left there were three blossoms where yesterday there was only one. I would say Spring has arrived… On a slightly different […]

What a difference two years makes… top photo taken 17 March 2014 bottom photo taken 21 March 2012