On Layers
"Wherever we go, we are friends" -Sloth and Manatee
Sloth and Manatee
I am once again making rows of dots working my way from the bottom of the page to the top. I love doing this, because it makes me think of the American Southwest.
There is so much geology in the American Southwest. I mean, there is geology everywhere, to be sure, what else are we standing on. But in the Southwest, it’s right up at the surface. All these layers of stuff pushing on each other. You can see the stripes and bits and disturbances and places where stuff has tipped over. And then there’s the matter of that rather large Canyon that is Grand.
Layers are time. Each layer that goes on top is responsive to whatever went down before it. So they wiggle around and shape each other and sometimes there’s an Event like a big asteroid that drops stuff over the whole planet and we can see it, there, a big layer over it all.
These days we have a layer of noxious sediment being laid down, spewed forth from the most base human (and by human I mean mostly chimpanzee, after all) impulses toward aggression and banding together to make things nasty for someone else. And so, we have to lay down thicker more resilient layers of kindness. A lot of layers. A stream bed. The particles have to work their way in there and rest in the hollows and fill them in.
We have to be as unstoppable and as persistent as that bit of water that became the Grand Canyon. As we can see from the earth that we walk around on, that is entirely possible.
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Here is how that aforementioned layering drawing is going:
Here’s what it looks like pretty much done, I named it “Sun”
BunnyFrogCatSnake
And now: Sequence of Frog
Things Of The Week
Here is a website where you can find out who/what various streets in San Francisco, CA are named for. I wonder if people have done this for other cities. I love these bits of meaning underneath everyday things. There’s drama there, I’m sure.
The Tiny Awards are for little non-commercial website goodness-es. One of my favorites this year is 10K Drum Machines, in particular the Boots and Cats one. Try it! It’s self-explanatory. Boots n cats n boots n cats
Here’s another artist whose work I like, Emily Cotton Cram.
Okay! That's enough nonsense for now.
May you lay down a thick layer of kindness, may you play an excellent drum machine, won't you be my neighbor? - Betsy
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