… a placeholder for sketches about present moments. ( others at INSTAGRAM )
Tree at the Centre
Sands of Time
Patience of Jobe
Out in the Desert
Lightward 1
Bison People
Salmon People
Star Bound Salmon
Selected for the BELONGING EXHIBITION
Summer Thyme Gallery
231 Colfax Avenue, Grass Valley | May 2 through July 30 2019
Opening Reception May 20 | Contact: Ruth Chase 530.409.2330 | ruthchase.com
As less and less Wild Salmon return to their indigenous spawning homes, again less this year, this drawing came about today. One thing that I know for certain is that energy follows thought. When we forget about something it will disappear, when we as a predominant collective remember to reach out everyday to that which is life giving and receiving, it will remain a part of our life giving energy. It is the choice of us two-legged’s as to whether these wisdom keepers will stay or go.
Land of Good Heart
Anasazi Project
El Santuario de Chimayó
SunMoonArrival
Will They Stay or Will They Go?
Gold Country Oak Woodland
Blue Moon
Bioluminescent Fall
Trees of Life
Carrier Rock Doves Follow Roads Story
Mountain God
Peace Baby II
Peace Baby
Room 2 at Coyote Inn Palm Springs
The Ball Park
Two Worlds
Coyote Inn
Day in the Sun
Spirit Bear
Illustration possibility for Finder of Lost Things story . Excerpt from music score:
A god rose up at dawn and gazed across the land
He saw the rosy morning light; he saw the empty sand
He breathed a dream that had no end, he peopled it with life
He filled the mountain streams with fish, he sang till all was right
I bring to you, the god cried out, this finder of lost things
Lost love, lost joy, lost knowledge, lost water in our streams
This being wild and pure as light, and diamond quick as rain
To change your hearts from pain to peace and bring you joy again
Crowman
Excursion
Ambassadors from Another Time
John Steinbeck wrote about the redwood, “The redwoods, once seen, leave a mark or create a vision that stays with you always. No one has ever successfully painted or photographed a redwood tree. The feeling they produce is not transferable. From them comes silence and awe. It’s not only their unbelievable stature, nor the color which seems to shift and vary under your eyes, no, they are not like any trees we know, they are ambassadors from another time.” … but I’ll keep on trying:
Talking Stick
Easy Cat Care
Center Stage
Tree of Life
Happy Fish
Friends
Two Worlds
Homework assignment for Monday… create a collage with theme. “Two Worlds” is an interpretation of twenty plus years working between the bay area, crossing golden gate bridge, bay bridge at times, working in transamerica pyramid, and the other world, concurrently working as Fire Keeper and dancing in prayer to the west, north and east of Black Butte and Mt. Shasta. It all begins with a song.
Take Me To Your River
days of black and white …
Beneath the City
Bristlecone Hawks
Water is Life, Water is Sacred
I recall a time when I was about 10 years young, when my Dad and neighbor took me camping and fishing in the “High Sierra’s.” Traveling from the upper reaches of the un-tamed Kern river, we made our way west to the foothills, just east of California’s central valley. July is hot and our canteens were empty. Thirsty, with no 7-11’s back then, nor roadside stores, some thing inspired my neighbor Ben to make a turn along a dusty logging trail. He found a creek. A creek of clear, clean, cold mountain water was heaven found.
Grandmother Moon
Grandmother Moon keeping a close eye on Mother Earth and Lily S’s recent words on Salmon Journeys preceding the November 14th “super moon:”
“Perhaps that light will illumine what we ultimately decided. Perhaps it will shine some clarity on our impatience with ourselves, our values, our neighbors, and our country. And perhaps it will light our way to the future. Perhaps in its reflected glow, we will further separate wheat from chaff and find some grains of truth, some necessary nourishment with which to strike out toward tomorrow and the peace-on-Earth-for-all that many of us want but few of us know how to attain.”