Four Corners journal, U.S. Southwest — Having been invited to speak about traje (‘Maya dress’) at the Museum of International Folk Art in Santa Fe, my husband and I decided to make a more extended trip to the area and experience landscapes, flora, and fauna very different from what we have in the northeast. I took the opportunity to use as many different materials to document our experiences. Along with pens and watercolor paint I collaged, used photographs, included ephemera, and drew with local materials.
The view from 35,000 feet
Site of a recent forest fire, drawn in part with charred bits of trees. While we were there it poured and the bare earth turned to molten mud. I picked some up and rubbed that on my journal, too.
Along with drawing I write a good deal in my journals and like to make lists.
As we drove along the earth was colors we don't see in the forested northeast U.S. Then in Arches National Park we were awed by the stone formations and all the people there with us.
How to represent the colors and patterns of the rock formations? Here I use cut-up paste paper along with watercolor paint.
A visit to the Jemez Springs Bath House: I didn't take my journal into the tub with me but I did photograph the experience and create these pages afterwards. The photos repeated across the two pages remind me of the long, leisurely soak.