ste!!a gassaway: 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