In the ways "we mock our eyes with air" and more about skies

And one of those near perfect pieces of conceptual work: Vik Muniz’s Pictures of Clouds
...right up there with Yoko Ono’s Painting to See the Skies

"It is one of the first imaginative exercises we perform in the world, looking up to find a horse, a flower, a belching dragon."

more pieces of sky

Garden Plot 19: fallow again

Sky Line Drawings

Most of my work begins with or incorporates video or photo sketches.

Here's a recent photo I'm particularly fond of:


I shot this out of a moving vehicle while driving around in the old 'hood in North Knoxville.

I'm making a collection of these sky photos that create a line-drawing effect from, mostly human-made, features protruding in the landscape. And though I don't try to recreate the photos (unless I'm actually making digital photo prints on fabric), I do use the images as references for stitched drawings on canvas or paintings using bleach on denim.

Here are a few more Sky Line Drawings: