Friday, August 21, 2009

Tornado Mile


My vacation time this year is amounting to 3 days off at home... The first of which feels like a blur. The really interesting thing however is that having started work on my new series Tornado Sky about a month ago... It appears I have attracted some serious attention... From Mother Nature. I now am surrounded by the wreckage of a tornado that passed through my own back yard a couple of days ago. I took a walk through the neighborhood to see some of it's effects this morning, collected a couple of remnants and tomorrow when I wake up I am heading out with my journal to do some thinking about it all. Otherwise I have been busy studying the physics of lightning... and forming images for the new series... some of which is destined to be created outdoors... perhaps even with a little collaboration from the earth, wind, and Gods fire...

2 comments:

Jennifer said...

Oh my gosh! I'm so glad you're ok. I haven't experienced a tornado since I was a kid and that was enough for me.

Too ironic that you're working on Tornado Sky and then the real things come to visit...

Again, I'm glad you're ok. It's been an odd summer in many ways, but definitely an odd one weather-wise.

Miss Jane Mansfield said...

The whole phenomenon of finding exactly the right art supplies I need in the alleys near my new studio since I left home has kind of become a bit spooky with this one... I have been collecting some pretty interesting discarded electrical insulators and wire cables... even a piece of an electric pole. Not sure where it will all end up yet, but I can figure that out later.