WORKS ON PAPER

EVIDENCE OF LOSS

COMMON SEAWEEDS

MUSHROOM PRINCESS

PUTTING DOWN ROOTS

today i am sitting by the fire reading the newspapers and such that i find as part of the wood pile

Today I begin with words on paper, transition states of consciousness

(footnote for Meg)sitting by the cozy fire reading the woodpile

what i found interesting and din not burn

I am transforming another dark Descansos painting. I needed another surface for the barnacle root piece. Tom will bring more boards from Matt when he drives out to the coast for Thanksgiving.

waxing finished RIVERAIN SPIRITS & today's words

ok so now it IS RAINING and the day begins with teh wood stove. I love it!

today's table with text for intersections in my work, includes field notes, Kurt Fausch from his early work in japan , we saw his film River Web, it is excellent...newspaper i found in the wood bin, contains a manifesto by local HS kids about keeping Oregon's beaches public and being stewards, very moving words and expressions from the youth of the area, sketches of the Reflections  program marsh site, Lalena Dolby on tractor, etc. rich, fertile ground for exploration

waxing the Riverain Spirits today to complete that series, bundled conifers and such inserted in recessed boxes in panels, a sampling of things my hands collect as i walk each day, some from the farm, some from the forest, some from Cascade Head...cold wax

new samples, a bundled heart rock, a river tooth, good find by

Fred Swanson on our forest hike, and yesterdays barncle with roots

(12) 8" squares with recessed objects

finished painting not yet waxed, Conversations at the River

FIELD NOTES ETC.

TRANSITION ZONE info for surfaces of paintings

AT THE MOUTH OF THE ESTUARY

the far side of the beach by the estuary

surfer so close in the deep, turbulent water

part of quartet with field notes intersecting imagery

THE SITKA INVITATIONAL, Portland, OR and my guests

FRANK BOYDEN is always amusing, intros to Mari Hawkins, of Maine & Portland, OR(PNCA) & Galen Koch, newly arrived to Portland from my own Deer Isle(recent graduate of Skidmore College, here to study film and farm)

Mari, Casey Judy, studio manager at OCAC and our own very stylish Rebecca Welti, former Alaska fisherman!

Tom Sprenkle, my son, of Portland Or, and Casey

THE RIVERAIN SPIRITS of the experimental forest, Fred Swanson & Sarah Greene are our scientist hosts, Kurt is also a scientist so we had a wonderful and informative day in the forest and at the estuary

MOVING ALONG IN THE STUDIO

6 more of the studies in progress which collectively i refer to as the RIVERAIN series

the transformed painting which was dark, full of the oil spill. now it is light filled with bundled RIVERAIN spirits, the dot thing is some form of transition code thing. it's been going on for a while in my paintings, 24" square

detail from one of the samples from the farm, bundled

THE RVER FROM ABOVE & works in progress

using screens that Tom burned for me in combination with paint, text,transfers, very fun. the white paper, full sheets, kind of intimidating!

MJ
Anderson & Julia D'Amario, master printer, in studio

View from above.. estuary, salt marsh, Pacific, and coastal Oregon

fellow resident Kurt Fausch, scientist, ecologist

EACH OF US HAS A PURPOSE

PART OF THE NATURE SAMPLES from the farm

they are done, next i will wax them

the RIVERAIN panel, 24" x 24" x 3" in progress

goodnight Maine