Abundance and the Art of Making
water passage flow
awakened beings gather
treehouse forest life
My first spring along the Rio Hondo is truly magical. I’m living alongside vegetation new to me; some I’m familiar with like willow and horsetail, but there is a whole range of shrubs like skunk bush, chokeberry and narrowleaf cottonwood that is not a cottonwood at all but a willow. I had to consult an App. It sure looked like a willow to me!
Time seems to float between past and present mirroring joy, sorrow, life, death. So many friends have passed on to new beginnings, and new beings born each moment. I’m reminded of Zazen, stay with the out-breath and watch how life begins again with the next in-breath. Each moment so precious, fluid, interdependent.
Along the theme of renewal, my work has been shown in two exhibitions this spring. Currents, a kozo fiber and indigo piece I created after my residency at O’Hanlon Center for the Arts in 2022 shown at the Spring Exhibition with TAAC (Taos Abstract Artist Collective), and Winter Forest, on view at “Annex”, Santa Fe - a series of cast fiber and sumi sculptures inspired by the view from my dining table of a snow covered forest.
The trees have leafed out and a new drama is unfolding.
A few days ago I had the wonderfully auspicious opportunity to become a member of TAO (Taos Artists Organization) and signed up to participate in the Open Studio event during Labor Day Weekend.
I’ve learned that life is full of possibility… setting intention, watching the road-signs and making space for the emergent - a concept I learned from the founder of Commonweal. I love this allowing what is to come to unfold. That to me is where magic lives.
Spring is here at my mountain forest near Taos - thunder, rain, wind and new beginnings.
Wishing you well…
Winter Forest, Cast flax fiber paper, sumi. 20 x 4 x 4 (each). Photo by Christine Williamson.
