Refraction is the process of light bending when it strikes the edge of a translucent medium, such as glass or water. What you see below on the lupines in my garden is […]
Why Art Matters
Robins Are Art
Great choreographed staging. Here’s a female. Here’s her guy.The next person who comes along and says that art is a human artifact, I tell you, I’ll take them for a walk. That’s what […]
The Language of Crows
I feel this language in my bones, but it’s not in words… … or mathematics, as is this one, but what different mathematics they are! (And they’re not about numbers. You have […]
Trees + Light + Ice = Life
Ice is even better with trees growing through it. It is an illusion … well, yes, if we live in a world of things. If we live in a world of energy, […]
More Beautiful Ice
Some of the ice I found yesterday is pure art. Here’s a fragment of ice that is acting as a prism, creating blue light out of the early morning. These artworks looked […]
Farming and Art: Ancient Sisters
I was walking along the old water canal the other day, and then up the ravine and along the coyote track across the top of the vineyard, and I saw this… Industrial […]
Seeing in the Fourth Dimension
Because my camera can’t see well, it sees this when I look up … Staghorn Sumac Against the Sky But because it flattens out light and dimension, it reveals pattern that my […]
Holding Light in Your Hand
You can hold the sun in your hand. Really. Just pick a leaf in the fall. Once photosynthesis has shut down, the photons of the sun stay there for a short time, […]
The Art of Stopping
Everything in this image stopped. Still Life, Turtle Mountain Including the image. Yet, take a look at the walnut shell. Every time I look at it, I see it stop just now. […]
Writing With Light
The blue sky? The yellow bird? The green pine? Female American Goldfinch in a Lodgepole Pine the Beetles Missed Big Bar Lake Hardly. Those are properties of human sight, and of American Goldfinch […]
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