We were new to the North Norfolk coast and couldn’t agree what we loved the most: the flatness of the landscape, the drama of the clouds, the wind so loud, the skies so wide and flaming with gorgeous sunsets and expansive star-filled nights. In the charcoal-shadowed garden, listening to the sea beyond the dunes, I […]
Day: October 25, 2016
Tones of Silver and Grey
Nothing is white and black: even Kodachrome has nuances of silver and grey in the contours of a face, individual hairs and the shadows behind a woman’s eyes. The camera cannot lie, exposing a map of years in lines and creases around eyes and mouth, on ears, the furrowed brow and sagging neck. Her skin […]
Ocho Mecho
paper-folding hands caress of nimble fingers butterfly romance © Kim M. Russell, 2016 My response to Carpe Diem #1079 folding paper Chèvrefeuille started this episode with a haiku of his own to introduce another tool for art and creativity, folding paper or origami, and then gave us a beautiful example by Hitoshi: a paper boat on drift […]
