magical alphabets sacred incantations uncommon pronunciations weird sounds many voices
the vibration beneath the tone is the message from the breath returning to the world.
the sound is no longer possessed in potential by someone or thing but set free and made observable.
what is observed is determined by the qualities of the observer to feel the wave move through them.
special delivery
sounds
natural thought interrupters
a signal intensity ritual journey daydream buzzkill override attention grabber incoming information alert.
energy conductivity pathway
The new Governor declared a state of emergency for Ulster County New York - radial ice up to half an inch thick accumulating on all surfaces.
The Tree's limbs are bowed down and curled over as if punched in the stomach covered in heavy ice with evenly spaced icicles hanging from the smallest twig tips
One small branch is outside my window bent and dangling to touch and rest upon the insulated electric line twisted around the high-tension steel cable connecting power from the road to my home.
Dazzling beautiful in the bright clear light of day refracting reflecting magnifying twinkling chandelier plumb bobs Fresnel lenses
Bending light from bending branch amplified and directed to me personally with specific meaning and unconventional intensity delivery from the sun to my eyes and into my mind
hard to imagine how that mature limb of the old sugar maple could possibly be bent to the extreme it was by a natural phenomenon
easy to imagine how the load would break the limb and could pull the power line off the house dropping between the generator and the twin propane tanks that fuel it at the original entrance roadside of my old home.
I was powerless to do anything to protect my space, my border, my boundry- less than twenty feet up and out of my old front door.
hard not to stare at it in a strange, concentrated worry.
The image of the unfinished watercolor above is on the same size paper block mentioned in an earlier blog post titled age.
Icosahedral capsid is the second I have done in a similar spirit to the two other series on eight by ten inch one-hundred-and-forty-pound cold press cotton.
the first painting was finished before the storm, this was done just after the powerline was safe.
considering the self-assembly of protomers into aggregate forms called capsomeres
considering the solar activity causing a geomagnetic storm affecting the temperature of the atmosphere one hundred and thirty miles up causing it to be denser than expected creating fifty% more drag on the satellites launched into orbit the day before
cytoplasmic streaming? The Waters of Life!
steam the same distance away as me and most of the stuff here within that old front door
came up from the city
for more than twenty years
but distance of space between things is measured not horizontally
but vertically
challenging the trajectory and acceleration in the outer envelope of our collectively perceived boundry our body Earth something can happen in minutes, the Sun and Earth are that intimately linked- the distance doesn't matter
Essentially the polymorphous container holds within it the encoded adaptive information of responses to changing environmental conditions as experienced in past generations.
check the return address on our individuated protein envelopes see what I'm talking about
