Discovering Wayland’s Smithy
In the vein of how traditional artists teach their art, Wayland had an apprentice called Flibbertigibbet…
Reflections on Place
Stitching and a Quilt (Part 6)
“And so, we stitch our lives, the history behind us, and our hopes for the future.”
Stitching and a Quilt (Part 5)
“Or, rather does the crazy quilt’s power lie in what has been accomplished stitch by stitch…”
Stitching and a Quilt (Part 4)
The quilt has become bound by the Seamstress of Time ever more firmly into the country’s identity and cultural consciousness.
Stitching and a Quilt (Part 3)
“The landscape is the product of the divine average.”
Stitching and a Quilt (Part 2)
“Too often the nearby loses value, while the faraway holds the allure.”
Stitching and a Quilt (Part 1)
And just exactly what does a blue horse have to do with stitching a quilt?
Framing Our World
Before the flush of June’s greening, I grabbed some time to walk up the county road that cuts through the native grassland. As I walked, I framed a view without picking a mat color, wood molding, or type of glass. Instead, I used barbed wire and a weathered fence crosspiece to define my camera’s view … [Read more…]
An Unbounded Horizon
Early June brings the storms and their seasonal rain to central and eastern Montana. The storms also deliver something else…drama.
And in drama, lies a story, complete with a setting and a plot…
The Message of Winter Wheat
Today is the day before Easter. It is a time that commercially we are told to commemorate by brightly colored eggs and chocolate bunnies. A time to gather. A time to renew. A time to celebrate tomorrow. But today, yet again, in what feels like a three-year long winter, the wind blows straight out of … [Read more…]