calculating risk assessment

painting the key signature
of flocks-violet
en plein air
of maples
while calculating the
risk assessment of
cobalt and phthaloquinine blue
cadmium red
chromium green and
quinacridone
while listening to
a chorus of
hungry baby flycatchers


PB

48 x 66 in.


deep high or deep low
in outer or inner space
reflecting energy unharnessed
it rolls into being then out again
without form, without function

simple love in motion

SD

rail flowers

i just spoke with a back-hoe operator who is working on the property north of the tracks from IMICO.

He has worked on brownfields in Guelph, and dug holes all over the place so he knows what's where in guelph.

he says the City has severed and bought? the back half of the property to put in holding tanks to deal with the open sewer where i found 2 dead skunks

.... sound like research project?

AVADA

looking into the

 shimmering moonlight

 on the evening of the
 ninth of may

 studio screaming 
 quartz-light  and 
 tortured strings ringing

 into the darkness

 of structures

 hurtling particles

 choreographed

 into a likeness

 of the elements

 of dancing

 a likeness out of

 the chaos and into

 a compound lattice

 through recognition

 without time

 but as a measure

 of the frequency

 of the vibration

 in and out of sight

 as plurality

 dissolves

 into unity

 and back

 into the

 forest

 at night

Phosphorescence

 Those profound moments of discovery in which she finds herself dissolving into the mysteries of nature are the moments that Detwiler attempts to instill in her work. Previously known for her international work drawing attention to nature’s beauty and the importance of its preservation Susan Detwiler has turned the page shifting into environmental action. Following the lead of Rudolph Steiner and his proponent Joseph Beuys, Detwiler has partnered with Peter Beckett in the Arts & Science Lab Project. The Project acknowledges the social discontent expressed by the occupy movement and takes up the cause of social architecture. Woven into her current work is a comparison between the interconnectedness of natural cycles and the mechanism by which human activity might shift into sustainability.  We have harnessed the energy of falling water, wind and sun historically to power machinery, for transportation and to generate electricity. This knowledge will play a vital role in the transition back into a more harmonious relationship to the biosphere. 

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woodspileinstallation

wood piles

as deep as 

where the snow 

would normally be  

today

there were

white rabbits

like sitting ducks

frozen 

in a green landscape

Heat Wave

Colour Vision

Daylight differentially reflected as colours by 

metals and chemically dyed oxide particles. 

These "pigments" are suspended in 

a mixture of linseed oil with

 turpentine and damar varnish 

( both derived from coniferous trees ) 

The relationship between viscosity and gravity 

becomes evident as

 the "oil colour" is absorbed into the 

translucent surface of white pine board. 

The background is  

"stained" western red cedar.