Time Project - Week #35

This is another from my walks in the lovely spring weather.  It doesn't show the greening up aspect of spring.  The only color is a faint pale orange that I saw behind the scraped bark. Before all the leaves come out there is a rich layer to observe - a kind of subtext - the preparation or basis for the leafing and flowering. 

What I was seeing struck me as mark making and connected with a concept I've been thinking about lately which is how we "read" situations and objects and so much more.  I've been thinking about what the term "close reading" means.  Kay Dolezal

Week #34 of Time Project

This piece is an experiment in layering with Photoshop and  also layering of memories of my mother and her life - which it seems was very different from mine.  Along with memories she left me a small, brown newspaper clipping which I think she referred to when she made a special dinner one time of Hassenpfeffer.  And also she left her novena book.   She did a lot of praying for me as I had left the Catholic church.  I found this page recently when I was trying to recall what prayers the rosary consisted of.  The actual rosary which I used to form her silhouette was courtesy of the undertaker after her wake.  How's that for haunting?    
Kay Dolezal

Week #33

Spring is springing.  I'm doing some yardwork - not as much as I should.  I'd much rather play at my computer and fool around with haiku.  Kay Dolezal

Week #32

Had to reflect the big weather events. These shots of the Charles River were actually taken between the two storms.  I'll let it speak for itself.  Kay Dolezal