Showing posts with label Holdfast. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Holdfast. Show all posts

Saturday, August 6, 2016

Free Diving: Down, Around, and Up Again

Low visibility shots: hold your breath.

Mother-of-pearl, the decaying shell of an abalone, shining through the bottom rubble.

Slightly out of focus, as the swell pulls me away from the bottom.


Poor visibility--as often the case in California--but for me that increases the wonders when one swims down, swims close.

I wonder what's over there, through there.

Snails continuing sea urchin depredation?

A murky photo that catches the actual experience, I think.

Likewise, an overbright shot that reveals that shift from the dark depths, even just a dozen or so feet down, to the sunshine surface.  It was actually foggy up there, but the overbright contrast is due to my amphib-camera struggling to make that shift.

Friday, November 15, 2013

Robert Graves' "Apple Island"



APPLE ISLAND

Though cruel seas like mountains fill the bay,
Wrecking quayside huts,
Salting our vineyards with tall showers of spray;

And though the moon shines dangerously clear,
Fixed in another cycle
Than the sun’s progress round the felloe’d year;

And though I may not hope to dwell apart
With you on Apple Island
Unless my beat be docile to the dart —

Why should I fear your element, the sea,
Or the full moon, your mirror,
Or the halved Apple from your holy tree?

— Robert Graves

Monday, July 29, 2013

Hold Your Breath

The Muser:
sculpture mix; copper carbonate oxide.

30-minute exercise with live model.

Saturday, December 8, 2012

Bluefish: Two Views


Clayfish, Blue: stoneware; blue glazing.


Sunday, April 22, 2012

Jolly Roger


"House-pirate."

"House . . . pirate?  What's that?"

"Focused sublimation, I think."

"Aaaarrrgggghhhh.  Isn't there something easier?"

"We wouldn't want there to be any real trouble . . . ."


Monday, January 24, 2011

Holdfast

I love kelp; I just do.