cloudbreak

Here is a drawing I made last night on a found piece of paper.

It was a loose piece of paper I found in one of 3 boxes of old Monthly Time Books dating from the mid 1960's back to the late 1920's that we found in the attic of our old new house last week. The books indicate that the original owner used to employ Percy and Max to build and repair for others.  I will use them as material in some mixed media projects, not just as collage papers, but incorporated into some other kind of artwork.
 

And a detail from the same piece.

I think I often like my details more than the whole work because they become necessarily abstract,

 a direction I want to explore. 

 

 

In the meantime, I have a few more pictures to share with you of my flight home from Toronto exactly one week ago.

Through the big glass windows of the waiting room at the airport I saw the airplane next to the one I'd take being unloaded. You can see the reflection of the seats in the waiting room perfectly follow the length of the plane, segmenting it as if on purpose but totally unplanned. Just a neat bit of serendipity.

 

Though it was clear upon take-off, we hit cloud cover almost immediately

 

and throughout the whole trip

 

giving lots of opportunity to see multiple variations

 

in the cloudscape, like this amazing herringbone pattern

 

and these great openings that show the land below

 

To think what appears to be so vast to us is infinitesimally small in the scheme of things

 

Bank after bank of varied height and density

 

busy sculptural bits in the distant froth

would actually be enormous

 

Right angle slices would drop away

 

creating a crater with an apparent splash around it

 

And finally breaking through the clouds to the wild lakelands of Nova Scotia

 

here is one of the drawings I did while I was away

 

Like many people today I am fascinated by the numbers of today's date: 12/12/12 and even posted this post at 12:00 EST just for fun. Twelve is considered the Chinese number for unity. Might I suggest we bring a little twelve into our lives.

 

Bless us every one.