another sky line study

As I was getting off the freeway from one of my Appalachian road trips this weekend, I saw this flock of migrating birds on the power lines, rolled down my window and took a few pictures. Here's one:

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

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:

Joshua Tree Spring 2005…

because the previous post made me a bit nostalgic.

When Pigs Fly

I started collecting sky images when we were still living in Los Angeles. These first two photos were taken on one of our many trips out to Joshua Tree. It might have even been our last trip before we moved. We had lots of rain in 2005, which made for a gorgeous Spring and skies full of clouds where there are usually none.



And these two were taken in the backyard last night after our walk:

The sky is beginning to bruise...

night must fall and we shall be forced to camp!

Frank and I just got back from a walk around the neighborhood and a swing in the park. I must be out of swinging practice... I got butterflies! What a joy! I don't remember butterflies while swinging.

Came home and sat outside in the dark and watched the fast moving clouds over the ridge. Took some photos for my Pieces of Sky project.

Sky images are imprinted in my retina... I've been spending this week stitching the discharged denim that will be the pieces of sky. All I can see right now are skies, even when I sleep.