Garfield Park, Indianapolis, Indiana. 2009.

I'm stirring our basement spiders by doing this-- loosening portfolio laces, flopping open the covers and pattering through archives. Craft paper collages. Smudgy pastels. Some watercolors. 

Here's part of a series of small paintings I made the winter before our departure from Indianapolis, in 2009. It's a portrait-quilt of images from Garfield Park, tied together with thread. 

The project (initiated by Garfield Park Art Center) explored the general question, "What is art?" 

Here were some of my ideas:

twenty sketchbook drawings (May 2014)

Since the start of the year I've been drawing daily. All of my drawings relate to an idea or image from my day. As it happened, our month of May included a lot of dirt, a lot of cultivating --thistles out, tomatoes in. 

Some drawings are on-location, from observation. Some are in "studio" from my memory and imagination. I'm not certain where all this work is leading, but I'm enjoying the daily exercise and feel happy to share it with you here. 

thistles

a tulip from mothers' day

seven greens

industrial plow lines

irises

May skyscape

Eden Prairie Farm picnic

land of plenty!

8 street home collection

thunderstorm wish

peonies

miscellaneous belongings

present and future harvest

New Orleans Jazz Fest 2014

view via I-70 west

dandelions

Heeter's Homegrown

the middle-west world

parcels of land

a folk farm