Evaporating Islands | 11" x 14" | gouache & watercolor on paper
Diluted Reservoirs | 11" x 14" | gouache & watercolor on paper
Caustic Nectar | 11" x 14" | gouache & watercolor on paper
false refuge
ongoing series
2023
rough skinned newts the color of decaying alder leaves and crumbling redcedar stumps dot the trail to the lake, and freeze when our footsteps approach. one journeys through a miniature landscape of wet moss and wood sorrel; another rolls over, and shows me a bright orange belly. countless more hang motionless in the warming shallows of the lake all around us, as the fallen logs we stand on release steam into the morning light of the winter sun.
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in the high desert, a golden-mantled ground squirrel poses very nicely for me on rocks that once stood at the edge of an expansive reservoir — now a shallow glimmer in the far distance. all around us, spidery limbs and roots of young junipers reach out, seeking the last traces of moisture, ushering in new worlds.
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i watched you fly backwards
drupes unfurled into buds
beaks exhaled worms
rain rose out of the mud
fall yielded to summer
hewed logs sprang up as trees
you unbound our blunders
i crawled into the sea