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Dune

Dune
61 x 45, oil on birch panel

Do you see sky or water?
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Peace of Mind…

Peace of Mind

Title: Peace of Mind
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Size: 101×76 cm

mist rolling in

Seeing the mist rolling in from the lake over the big dune,
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coming closer, enveloping,
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until finally, only feeling surrounded by grey.

A Meditative Moment

I thought it would be nice to share some photos of the sky on the one day of the year when we have the most time to look at it.

I took a series of photos of the sky over a period of about three months quite some time ago and I hope to return to the subject again one day.  I would love to see these printed large and on a wall for people to get lost in.

How many of us look to the sky for a message of some sort?  Happy Solstice.

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Shapes


View from Empire Bluff, Sleeping Bear Dunes, Michigan
oil on maple, 24 x 18 inches. more… »

Listening II

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oil on board, 12 x 12 inches

Here is the companion to Listening I.

Two kinds of meditation – whirling and quiet. more… »

Clay and Lichen

A documentary on the progress of a layer of clay descending a dune
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Oil on maple, 24 x 18 inches

For more than a decade, we have been watching a layer of clay slowly descending a slope of the Empire Bluff. Usually, the ‘necklace’ stands out as a vegetation-free band. But on a winter day, it was nicely accentuated by snow.

I have given up walking around this aspect of the bluff out of concern that there suddenly could be a slide of clay. Two decades ago, the north-western most tip of the dunes at Glenhaven caved in after I walked there with my dog. Since then, I have grown to respect the forces of nature here.