Found art and what I am thinking about
Photo by Nancy J. Spiegel Rosman
When I am in the Boundary Waters I try to keep my mind blank, but open. A terrifically hard thing for me personally. But art will out. We were having “rock time” and I started pushing “stuff” around with a little stick. The time floated by as the little stick worked its magic in finding and arranging things found on the rock. I wonder what the next person who arrives on these campsite rocks will think of this found-object collage.
I’m always looking, looking, looking from the canoe, on the portage, and in camp. Here are some of the themes I am, once again, contemplating with these new images as inspiration:
The juxtaposition of hard and soft; the timelessness of nature, the ephemeral nature of humans.
The beauty of decay, the cycling of all things in life from life to death.
The abundance of everything in nature, even spawn upon the shore.
The power of water; the mystery of reflection.
