Filming

Spent the weekend at Mountain Water with film crew filming [ARMY] installation. Great fun. Sorry no photos from the weekend–too busy. Here's an old beauty.

Soldiers in the form of fence pales for the installation [ARMY]. Upper ones face Greenhorn; lower ones face Blanca.

The Yi Singing

Nº11 in the series of songs, singing. Sometimes work can seem like it's going sideways into a parallel and wrong channel, and then the context catches up. Singing is a quality of voice associated with earth element in Chinese medicine; Army (Shi) is Earth over Water in the I Ching. The yi are the creative, receptive spirits of the earth and charged with singing the heart's song.
The character shows the heart below with the radical for musical note, poetry, uttered sound above. Beautiful.

Song

song continues

Theme & Variation

A little variation on "Song," a painting from February, like a story of a face on the moon.
There is a quote from a Barry Lopez story that always moves me (from his Crow & Weasel). In a speech Badger says, "The stories people tell have a way of taking care of them. …Sometimes a person needs a story more than food to stay alive."

New Sketchbook

Some days in for this book started on April Fool's Day, this page some time before the 16th, flight drawings begin there.