12/12/21 – 1/2/22 equals 21 days & All Best to You!
by Steven McCabe
Update: I spent the last three days editing (in ‘real time’ on this blog) the poem that started as Ventilator, changed to Starlight, and ended up as Conversation With a Tree. I have a bad habit of posting first drafts then editing over the next few days.
Update: On June 2, 2021 I posted this: https://poemimage.com/category/x-steven-mccabe-1-10-complete-by-one-unit-of-measurement/
I was at that early point 1/10th complete painting a 33′ X 5′ roll of Italian mixed-media paper working left to right.
Today I am 75% complete. Gouache, watercolour, inks, water-soluble graphite crayon. Blues, whites, shades of black. Working title: Druidica Blue – Deja Vu. The themes of this painting carry great meaning for me.
I see light at the end of the tunnel. Soon 80% complete.
A slew of other things also require my attention.
I wish you well over the Solstice, Christmas and Hanukkah season. If I’ve missed your religious experience forgive me. I look forward to your postings when I return.
All best to you!
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No bad habit at all. Steve. It’s great to see your working process as the ideas come to you and change.
Thank you Joe. And thank you for noticing. It’s a bit of a phenomena (to this ‘Luddite’) to be able to do this at all.
Reading this feels like looking at your painting, “Word from Symbol, Symbol from Source,” like walking the labyrinthine paths of the unconscious, like seeing separate but interconnecting dreams woven in with memories painted in symbols. Like art streaming straight from the ancient depths of the dark unconscious. Like the mystery of life.
Thank you Jeanie, The way you write it it seems to be it itself. This is imaged so succinctly yet universally at the same time. What you are describing 🙂 well, I just want to join that procession or jump on that magic carpet. Thank you!