Grasslands
Grasslands
I live at the eastern edge of the Kansas Flint Hills, one of the remaining remnants of earth’s tall grass prairies. I focus on my place in it and with my camera on its details. Nature’s images are transitory, often evanescent. I try to perceive some sense of their essence and preserve it in paint and print and text.
Wind in the Bluestem 70 x 40
Color in the Bluestem 70 x 40
Autumn Bluestem 42 x 42
Winter Range 2 40 x 40
Winter Blanket 80 x 40
Autumn Grama 1 76 x 42
Tall Grass 42 x 115
Journal entry: 8 September
The grasses write the manifest lines
of preamble to autumn.
Their summer reservoir of chlorophyll
drains away from blade and stalk
to draft a polychromatic radiance
across the parchment of the pasture.
Journal entry: 7 January
Last night’s blizzard spread a thick blanket
over the cropped winter grasses of the pasture
and the snow in the roadside ditches
which bind its edges has been sculpted
by the fingers of the wind
into a white velvet ribbon.
O August Green study 32 x 32
Tall Grass 6 Panel Screen
approximately 12’ x 7’
O Big Bluestem 32 x 23
O Autumn Grama 2 32 x 23
O Autumn Grama 3 76 x 42
O Spring Burn 32 x 23
O Winter Range 1 32 x 23
Prairie Wild Flowers 32 x 23
O Little Bluestem 48 x 32
O Little Bluestem 2 48 x 32
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Tall Grass Color 40 x 34
Spring Dew 40 x 34
Little Bluestem Gold 40 x 34
August Green 40 x 34
O Winter Frost 40 x 34