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"Keep Looking"

Keep Looking
17x27" Fabric, beads, ink, photo transfer from inkjet, rice sack.
Currently on display at Northeast Community Lutheran Church, part of the Raveling Mercies exhibit.
Click for larger image. Completed 12/08


Ah, you who call evil good and good evil, who put darkness for light and light for darkness, who put bitter for sweet and sweet for bitter! … Who acquit the guilty for a bribe, and deprive the innocent of their rights!
Isaiah 5:20-23

O that you would tear open the heavens and come down, so that the mountains would quake at your presence —
We have all become like one who is unclean, and all our righteous deeds are like a filthy cloth. We all fade like a leaf…
Isaiah 64:1,6

The photo image is a starving seven-week-old infant in Somalia. It is a hard image to look at, and we share in both the infant’s pain and the bystanders' complicity.

From the first Round-Robin Book

The Waking by Theodore Roethke.

These images are excerpts from the first book of the Altered Books Round-Robin project of the Visual Journal Collective . Cover not shown; my artwork shown here, book property of Briana Goetzen.

A new Journal: Winter

The cover.

the Wish

one page, 6x8"

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Monday/Minnehaha

2 pages, 6x8" ea

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Now is the Time/
A Bird in the Hand
two pages, 6x8" ea
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summer journal 08

click images for larger views. this is a mixed-media cover for the summer journal.

This journal contains 24 pages total.

more pages from the summer journal

These are from my first "art journal." Aug.-Sept. 2008

After wasting much time trying to get the camera working (a problem having to do with the battery terminals, I think) I wound up shooting the sketchbook with this and other images using my camera phone. After touching up and saving the photos to my photo file, I now find that none of the touched-up files (except this one) actually saved as directed. And now I have to get ready for work. Argh.

This is the last page of my summer journal, written around the date of my birthday, Sept. 15.

an early snapshot of the journal

Work in progress detail.

An early effort, inspired by Tootsie Pop wrappers.

About 16x20 inches.

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the thirsty ground

12x20 1/2"

fabric, beads, wood

inkjet on organza

watercolor

dryer lint (batting)

2007

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judgement

10x14"
collage with two details shown
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transfiguration

multiple views; two-page spread, 21x14" collage
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maelstrom

28x14" two-page spread, collage

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survey of the interior

10x14" collage, shown with full view of the sketchbook.

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oracle at delphi

10x14"

collage

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i know well what i am fleeing from...

but not what i am in search of.

10x14"

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drinks like a fish

10x14"

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