NEW from The Trinity Series -

"Trinity #24 - The Scot Readymade"
digital collage by Mick Mather

"... a braw day for the sentinels three ..."
- Unknown

Erosion Bundle Update -

"Erosion Cube, March 1st 2011"
digital photograph by Mick Mather
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It hasn't quite been a month since I installed my piece for Kris Henderson's The Erosion Bundle Project. The weather here has been quite brutal. One weekend we were inundated with high winds blowing and howling in gusts between 45 & 60mph. February managed an accumulation of 26" of snow on top of the 130" already received. I suppose I don't really need to say much about that considering the little roof of snow that can be seen sitting atop my cube. At least it's still there and taking all things in stride. I'll post an update in early April before removing it at the end of that month for the next step in this process: I'll be boiling the cube to make a dye before beating it into pulp for a papermaking session. Stay tuned.

Thinking back -

"Ayres Rock: A Dream Walk (Revisited)"
digitally manipulated monotype & collage by Mick Mather

You can go back to this post of August 11th, 2007 for further details about this piece. As I bring it forward to the present day, the image arrived as I was doing my 2008 year end review and some file back-up. At the same time I've recently been immersed in a series of site specific land art sculpture installations along with further study, preparation and development of a series of "walking art projects". As you can see, this image is currently one documentation for a virtual walking project that is still a seed buried inside my fertile, if disturbed, mind. By the way, a dedication this time goes out to my very good friend, Mary Stebbins Taitt.

Getting ahead of myself -

"Study #1 for Ice Cubedigitally manipulated drawing by Mick Mather

As I've mentioned already, I have another land art sculpture that I'd like to build when the weather conditions are right. Toward that end, I need to make a formal proposal to the sculpture park where I'd like to have it sited. This is one of the studies that will become part of the proposal as well as the documentation for that project regardless of where it ends up. I do have other options and the only real stumbling block is the weather ... in any case, I'm posting this now in honor of the imminent snow showers expected tomorrow or the next day.