— unpredictable thoughts

Woke up after about four hours sleep and headed to my stu­dio. Mar­garet tossed some stuff in my lunch­box, I grabbed my ipod and I was on my way.

Get­ting ready to make work is always a rit­ual. It helps me when my brain isn’t func­tion­ing — my body remem­bers what to do. After plug­ging in the ipod, light­ing the incense, and putting on a cup of tea I was ready to sit and look at the new work I started last week. I opened my sketch­book and began to write the chant in my head that would take me to the high peaks, to the huge stands of flut­ter­ing aspens, to the huge hem­locks, to the deep fra­grant spaces of red pines.

These draw­ings will be in All About Trees. Here’s a glimpse of one still in the works. It was a very pro­duc­tive day. Two of the draw­ings are finished.

Tags: trees, birth­day, art, draw­ings, yupo, philadelphia