Archive for March, 2015

Prayer Flags in San Luis Obispo

Sunday, March 15th, 2015

Today we hiked a trail that we haven’t hike in several years. And at the top of the hill we found this–

Prayer Flags

I have been thinking about using the idea of prayer cloth/flags in my work. It would be a different way to display my coded messages. I have used the idea of prayer beads in previous series.

My series From Evil has several objects that refer to prayer beads.

From Evil

Bad Habits–The Seven Deadly Sins,
Each tin contains a rosary with the sin and Forgive
Yourself in code. There is a mirror for viewing yourself.

I also made a series of cast soap cups and soap filled vessels as part of my Cleanse Your Palate series.

Cleanse Your Palate

Cleanse Your Palate Series
Forgive Yourself. Forgive yourself is coded into the beads.
Soap, Cloves, Wood, Metal, Fiber, Salt, Wax

More images of the prayer flags:

Prayer Flags

Prayer Flags

I like that the flag bits are in the bottle.
Prayer Flags

Some information on prayer flags can be seen here:

Prayer Flags

Tibetan Prayer Flags

The Prayer Flag Project

More images of my work:
From Evil series

Cleanse Your Palate series


Plant on Mountain

Tuesday, March 10th, 2015

Plant on Mountain


New Seed Pod Find

Tuesday, March 3rd, 2015

Familiar but can’t quite place the plant.

Unknown Seed Pod

Broken Seed Pod

And what are the bugs?
Bug

Is the poor focus a result of my vision, the age of the camera, or both?

I tossed the broken pod bits into my garden.