I had this almost religious experience yesterday when I had the Kansas City Zoo Aquarium all to myself for a little while...

My husband, Ryan, was running in the Kansas City Zoo Run. I was going to run too, until I realized I was the only one in the aquarium. What an unusual opportunity and massive gift from the universe it was to spend time with these creatures without the usual crowds and shrieking of children. 

sun salutations

Fleeting moments of beauty.

Refraction. Oil on panel.

Some oil works. I've been doing the underpaintings in red.

Float. Oil on panel.

Downpour (Prairie State Park), Watercolor

Continuity, Acrylic on Canvas

Milkweed with Aphids, Watercolor

Wide Open (Prairie State Park), Watercolor

A few different iterations of the prairie. I've been forced into looser painting by both the demands of my body and the demands of my psyche.

Levels, watercolor.

 

 

My contributions in the 2027 We'Moon, Over the Moon.

Cyanotypes on fabric.

Quartz crystals and string.

White Vervain, Honeysuckle, and Gayfeather

Honeysuckle

Sawtooth Sunflower and Goldenrod

Goldenrod

Black-eyed Susans

Winged Sumac

Beaked Panicum

Foxtails

Foxtails, Daisy Fleabane, Goldenrods

Woolly Croton and Goldenrods

Sericea (invasive in Missouri)

An underexposed test strip made in indirect sunlight. I love how ghostly it turned out.

I also used the same transparencies to make wet cyanotypes, embellished with gold ink.

I've had plenty of adventures this summer, so nothing but gratitude here, but I miss the ocean bad. It's been 385 days since my last pilgrimage.