In the Green
I’m not a very good nature tour guide. For one thing, I don’t know much about nature. For another, I walk very quickly; I have to keep reminding myself to slow down. Despite my shortcomings; however,...
View ArticleStone Memory
On July 23rd, 2018, I witnessed a 10’ flash flood tear past my Santa Fe home. A tsunami in a quiet valley, washing downstream animals, debris, and tumbling boulders, leaving behind a raw and reordered...
View ArticleFever
All night, your cheeks were hot, little one. I listened to your wails through the crackling yellow monitor next to my bed. Your father and I threw off our covers and walked up the stairs to your room....
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Algae, Wood, and a Singular Bowl
Untitled Photo of Wood Bowl and Water. Luis Prato, 2023. Four slats of discolored wood possess salmon streaks and steel Blue parcels. They are equanimous and unmoving, although Existing to provide a...
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A Burnt Metal Ecosystem
Dragonfly. Anonymous (2010). Frozen in a burnt copper substrate, surrounded With whorls and tides of a creature’s past, a steadfast Dragonfly pivots. Rotating effortlessly and blessing Those that...
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Unabated Wildfires Within Maples
Nameless. Pete Saloutos (2023). Morphologies emerge in variable ways, Protruding through space and time, Yielding multifarious mazes. Glacial surfaced segments twist further, Above their predecessors,...
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A Lesson From Ancient Polylepis Trees
Originally published 3/7/23 on https://isabelavalencia.com/a-lesson-from-ancient-polylepis-trees/ A couple weeks ago, I wandered the Polylepis forest in the Chimborazo Park Reserve. After a two-hour...
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A Collection of Sculpture
“Cupcake”, bronze, 2017 “Free Rider”, bronze, 2017 “Got Away Too”, verde italian marble, 2022 “Got It Bleue”, bronze, 2023 “Half Eaten Apple”, bronze, 2017 “Happy”, Alabaster on marble, 2022 “Hard...
View ArticleAncient Olive Trees
May a man look up from the utter hardship of his life and say: let me be like these.Hölderlin, In Lovely Blue. 1 Circa 1400 BCE. An olive tree in Vouvés, Crete. From ‘vouvismos’ meaning the whispering...
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A Collection of images by Bette Ridgeway
ridgeway@artworkinternational.com A Beautiful Chaos, acrylic-gold, 46×48, 2023 A Delicate Balance, acrylic gold silver & bronze, 62 x 48, 2023 All That Glitters, acrylic gold copper & bronze,...
View ArticleCollection: Moonlight on Water
The Veil In the light I whisper promises, Carried by the winds, As they echoed softly in the moonlit sky. I speak of my sorrows and plead my case, I shatter and break in that endless space. In between...
View ArticleThe Seven Men of Eptagonia and Other Poems
The Seven Men of Eptagonia (with interjections from my grandfather) In a small town up the breast of the uppermost land mound there is a land of Seven Corners where - They do - there are seven men who …
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