nuukunui: February 2007

New moon at Redondo

We leave for France in the morning.

The new moon is the cup that holds the cheese.

~EVR

Oak tree at Globe: dawn

Redrawn from the note book

One bird and two coyotes by a pond in the rain under the last full moon over the fireplace.

3.I.06 ~ 14.II.07

Happy Saint Valentine's Day

Atmospheric landscape reference

Drawings, 1975, graphite and colored pencil on paper, 11.5x17 inches.

These were made in the studio at The Goodman Building after excursions at Lands End walking along the trail from The Legion of Honor to Sutro Park.

Sent from Bill Hogsett

Yaudanchi gatherer, 1999, acrylic on paper, 36x36 inches.

Pechmerle, (right hand), 1997, pencil,ink and watercolor on paper, 15x11.5 inches.

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[At Pechmerle]...there are hands everywhere on the walls and lots of bison, wooly mammoths and horses, all that, amazing horses with spots on them and we walked down into this really large cavern through tunnels with stalagmites growing up and stalactites dripping down and the guide rattling off completely understandible French and we came into this huge cave… really big, and hanging down from the ceiling was this huge stalactite, right in the middle of the cave but it wasn’t a stalactite, it was a root, a root from one of the miniature oak trees on the surface above, (the parking lot?) calcified he sed, but still growing at least eighty or a hundred feet down in a thin cone to a shallow pool of water. Growing right through the open air of the cave to nurture itself with water from the pool which we all had to lean over the rail and peer into, even Mme. Ne'rMin', and I put my hand up so it reflected and there I was like some kind of touristic paleolithic Narcissus amazed and trying to figure out what was going on...

~journal entry for 9 June 1997

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