Landscape Memory

Landscape has a secret and silent memory, a narrative of presence
where nothing is ever lost or forgotten.  
~John O'Donohue~ Anam Cara

This summer I did  a total studio clean out and reorganization in preparation for hosting a few private students here in my cozy studio space. Just one of the many benefits of cleaning and reorganizing is finding long forgotten items and seeing their potential relative to your current process of working.

Long before the use of digital photography I kept a tin box as storage for potential reference photos. I organized them into broad categories - water, sky, and trees.  Anything else was just dumped into the box. 

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