Circles 'round the sun -

"Striking A Seasonal Balance"
digital collage by Mick Mather

"... spring passes and one remembers one's innocence
summer passes and one remembers one's exuberance
autumn passes and one remembers one's reverence
winter passes and one remembers one's perseverance ..."
- Yoko Ono

Observing nature and a reinterpretation -

"Stream and Stones at High Water"
digitally manipulated fractal collage by Mick Mather

At this time of year, walking outside - or even just looking outside - to experience the air, light, heat, sun, rain and the changing of the season is a nice way to relax. Free flowing thought, influenced by the environment, flashes on and off with a variety of ideas and possibilities that will need to consider the sharp corners of recurring, urgent concepts that insist that I pursue them. For a number of years I've been interested in riparian restoration of a particular creek, my intervention being that of siting sculpture within the creek itself. Not a new idea, certainly, but one that continues to insert itself into my own consciousness. This post was created in response to much of this recent thinking.