The Land I’ve Neglected.

Every year, for eight years, for longer, I’ve moved through the plants and the soil on this land, and the movement planted seeds in me. August comes, and I feel defeated, but this year is worse. I’ve found Bindweed I’ve never seen before. I’ve been sliced by new grasses. My plants are all so tall, and so droopy, from all of the happy invasives, from all of the water, from all of the sun.

It is grey and beautiful today. I tore at the bindweed. At the carpet of another. At the stiltgrass. I so long for the church and its small batch of porous earth. And the biggening of that – but only so much for there is very little of it. I write from the church steps. Traffic passes and it is loud. And I know I am of this world.

DISCOVER TREASURES

Sendak Nutshell in Truffle

Journaling with color

The Last of the Yellow-Labeled Ink

Cicada in a Coffee Shop

Critter in My Journal

Field Trip

Walter and I have been wanting to cast bigger things, and so finally visited a local business to start the conversation. The building is one of my favourites in the area. The land was purchased by the current owner’s grandfather in the 1940s, when our new church was being built. I love the tangle of time. Some photographs for now.

The Blackening...

Job cards! Each part has a card with quantity made. They are STILL using this system.

The colours and machinery and even the cardboard boxes were all part of the time machine.

I remember these candies. Probably ages old when I saw them in a little green glass bowl at my granmas house.

The colours and the wear...

This is how Walter learns. Some of the machines were made by Bill when he was in his twenties.

Watermelon. The colours palette.

Substack and YouTube

We’ve been making a lot more for YouTube and Substack lately. Søren has joined Ashley and me in the video-making and will keep at it while he’s at SCAD!

We have more process to share, along with the church transformation, if all goes well. Let us know you are enjoying our YouTube videos by subscribing to our channel!