In the British Museum in the 80’s, the Rosetta Stone was not (at least in my memory) encased in glass but sat open to the air. As I stood beside it and imagined touching its incisions, another tourist, part of a small group identified by matching bags, began filming the stone with a video camera. At this time, before smart phones and digital cameras, I rarely saw anyone using a video camera in public. The stone was …
When I stitch the landscapeTravel its contoursCarving a canyonTraversing a slopeSubduing low-lying land with hatching My fabric terrain is neutralColorless and abstracted, like the map,except for the waterwhich is stitched in blue Listen to more at http://chirb.it/rkJ8s6
How many creeks have I drawn on my Locator Map? Every one that I could see. I’d look at a topographic map and draw with pencil on 12 inch squares of Tyvek. I would branch off from a river and continue, my line growing finer and fainter, until the creek, and my line, disappeared. I began to love those meandering lines, that tracery that became denser and then more spare, that branched past the towns and …
