Monday, December 26, 2016

stranger in a strange land*

'Cosmos' 20-24" chain, colored pencil, mica, paper, sterling silver;  Kathleen Faulkner
  
 2016 is coming to an end.

Soon it will be a new year
filled with uncertainties.
I distract myself with art and good sci-fi.
 
Earth is starting to feel claustrophobic.
The cosmos calls.






 

Monday, December 12, 2016

deep in it

'Northwest is Best'  16x20" oil pastel on panel;  Kathleen Faulkner


These are dark times.


I look out to the west
dark clouds have lifted over the Olympics

To the east, the North Cascades shine
  beneath the dark, brooding sky
 
  It brings to mind a line from a poem, as it often does,

and  'I am blinded by it's splendor'.*


*'What is the Beautiful'  Kenneth Patchen