studio rainbows
studio rainbws in circles & squares waxed linen thread spool 'Thought Forms' squared chart stacks of Shaker boxes Winsor & Newton 'Revival' dot card & grids of buildings clad in 'beauteous colors'
purple poetry prompt
this morning’s poetry prompt from Heather McKay Young pick a color & I chose ‘purple.violet.iris.mauve.’ on my morning walk, I found myself on the purple trail by happenstance by coincidence by necessity by unknown choice by poetry
eclipse day
on eclipse day - circular images - maps & cities rugs & blots sun & buckets utopias & moons 1/Polly Jane Reed, Spiritual Map. The Holy City.1843, Philadelphia Museum of Art 2/ Mary Gartside orange blot, An Essay on Light and Shade, 1805, Dr. Alexandra Loske 3/ Elder Joshua Bussel, Shaker Village, Canterbury NH, 1850 - detail, Winterthur Library 4/Edward Deming Andrews color slide, Winterthur Library 5/Knitted rug attributed to Sister Elvira Hulett, C. 1893, Shaker Museum | Mount Lebanon
sparks
March 21 is International Colour day. March 22 is World Poetry day & World Pigment Day. I’ll be reading a bit of poetry on 22 March (12:50pm EST) for the Slade School of Arts, Colour & Poetry: A Symposium VI, 21st - 22nd March 2024. A cross and inter-disciplinary two-day virtual event held by the Slade School of Fine Art, in celebration of International Colour Day, World Poetry Day and World Pigment Day. T The symposium hosts a range of speakers representing the arts and humanities, science, and industry, drawing upon knowledge from within and outside of the UCL community.
of colors & moons
flipping flapping through days & pages of moths & butterflies of collage & happenstance of colors & moons
colour | color
yesterday’s bright studio light, catching color out of the corner of my eye. preparing for DFZ Gartside discussion reading poetry for the Slade Colour & Poetry symposium mapping out a poetry manuscript with Poetry Forge colour or color no matter how you spell it connects the dots
Mother Ann Lee
Mother Ann Lee 29 February 1736 — 8 September 1784 Cosmic feminist karma Inspired when first in, When women invited in. A broadsheet to marketh the course, to report. Lace repurposed, given new life, liberties, infused with psychedelic indigo. A spectrum instructed with solemnity Occasionally, light flickers. Mother Ann Lee embodied cosmic feminist karma bringing a new religion into the worldf ounded on principles so radical that they endured persecutions One could say her broadsheet was verbal; she being illiterate to written words yet literate in all realms cosmic . The written Testimonies of her contemporary believers and works of the later visionists-scribes themselves of hearts and leaves and maps and flowers and trees-- scripted scrolls brought down from spirits’ energies spoke to her cosmic energy. Stone Prison How can I but love my dear faithful children Who’re willing to bear and suffer with me When I was on earth and in a cold prison, I cry’d To my God to remember me I prayed to God to protect my dear children, To strengthen the weak and comfort the strong For I was distressed and in a stone prison, And none but my God to protect me from harm. —excerpt from ‘meetinghouse’ -- spoken word by Brece Honeycutt & Shaker song/Stone Prison sung by Miriam Cantor Stone. performed at Shaker Heritage Society for Moonbow #6, July 29 2023. .
“A Bird to overhear-‘
2 years ago today, Copy Press launched ‘A Bird to overhear-‘ for their Becoming Fireflies series! “Are we listening? Are you listening? When did I start listening? When’d di you first hear them? Do you recall which one? Was it the dawn chorus? Or the wail, cry, caw at last light? When did it dawn on you? Are you listening? Can you name them? How many can you name? According to the New York Times only 1 in 8 can Name more than 20 species. Can you name their songs?Can you hear them? Can you see their flight patterns? The landscape architect Gertrude Jekyll, once blind, could name them by the sound of their wings in flight.” -text excerpt from 'Listening" chapter | watch ‘A Bird to overhear-‘
I am forever grateful to Copy Press for their faith in my work. Thanks a million, Vit Hopley, Yve Lomax, Jono Lomax and Opel Morgen for this collaboration and all you did to make it happen. 'A Bird to overhear-' photography, filming/Brece Honeycutt; script, narrator/Brece Honeycutt; script editor/Vit Hopley; producer/Yve Lomax; video-editing, post production/Jono Lomax; graphics/Opal Morgen; thumbnail image/Brece Honeycutt
swatches
Rainbows In dye swatches In color torn from pages On wooden spools of thread Research materials for Poetry manuscript class- A Body of Work- with Poetry Forge
Mary Gartside
White Yellow Orange Scarlet Green Blue Crimson Violet
Arranging found color today and thinking of the newly published, ‘Mary Gartside (c.1755-1819) Abstract Visions of Colour’ invaluable scholarship by Dr. Alexandra Loske. 
Mary Gartside’s eight colors illustrated “Colour Circle, from the Borrow Copy of Mary Gartside, An Essay on Light and Shade 1805, engraving with hand-colouring.” 
Not only did Gartside write about colour theory, but she brought in abstraction with her ‘colour blots.’ The ‘white blot’ captures the tints of our grey skies as of late. 
2 Images from Mary Gartside (c.1755-1819) Abstract Visions of Colour published by Thomas Heneage Art Books.
Find more information on Alexandra Loske and her colour research, here. Mary Gartside (c.1755-1819) Abstract Visions of Colour published by Thomas Heneage Art Books