Some Views of the Park

Sunny afternoon, Park Lafontaine 7/25/11

The past few days, I've been experimenting with different drawing techniques for foliage, searching out a shorthand that captures the rhythm, busyness, and emotional tone of trees and shrubs at different times of the day. I've been thinking about this problem for years, and keep coming back to it, but now I have a bit more time to explore possibilities. These are just some initial sketches done with my Lamy fountain pen, quickly. I'll move on to washes and broader areas of ink and contrast, but I'm curious how far one can go with just a pen.

Early evening, 7/26/11

 

Night, 7/27/11

the micro city 7/14/11

1.

At the community garden
Christiane and I kill crimson bugs
on last year's Easter lilies
each a drop of blood
plucked from unstained white

 

2.

City full of food
the bare fridge accuses me
with its open mouth.

 

3.

The sparrows instruct
their lessons about beauty:
hop from dusty streets
to the gold locust branches

Red house and hydrangeas

 

the micro city 7/12/11

1.

French city, July –

workers vanish and with them

frantic l'heure de pointe*

 

 

2.

Circus tents– gold, blue

beyond the highway balanced

on its concrete stilts

 

 

*rush hour

commute

The Monday commute/
the bio bus heading east /
clanging bike locks west/
the city steams, reluctant/
to work away the summer 

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