A piece of my garden in spring

I'm on a roll here with posting today, as I'm thrilled I've figured out how to get photos as well as originals with sizes shrunken before posting.
I've been working on the space in front of my house for the past 5 years off and on, in the spring and summer, converting it from lawn to flowers, herbs and sometimes tomatoes - I need to move the strawberries as they don't like the slope or perhaps being too near a large blue spruce.

Sliced open

Created September of 2003. It could be a representation of deep psychic conflict or the culturally created male/female split or a black/white split. Anyway, it's a split.

Kaleidescope

Or it could be a ferris wheel, a Wizard of Oz type spaceship, etc. Much depends on which way you turn it.
I worked with the colors in HP Photosmart Edit, since just today I figured out how to relocate a photographed image into that program so as to shrink the size and also discovered I could do other things with the image.

Jennifer on her way home back to the cosmos

Another drawing reflecting on Jennifer's passing.

Water Series - C07

The eyes have returned in my drawings, along with a rich yellow yolk. Done with chalk pastels.

Water Series - B07

I think this speaks for itself except I'm not sure I know what it's saying. Possibly this drawing could reflect concern about/ interest in my mentor's activities in deep-sea diving off a South East Asian island with coral reefs. Aru, I think, is the name of the island.

Water Series -A07

This is also a 3-image series, dedicated to water. Only now do I notice the similarity in shape of this drawing to the one dedicated to Jennifer Ayala. Composed in December of 2007, returning to chalk pastels.

To Dr. Jennifer Ayala (Hitchcock)

I started this drawing in August 2007 while at a conference session on Nonviolent Communication (R) and worked on it off and on until December 2007. It's done with colored pencils. In September, I believe, we heard that Jennifer Ayala (Hitchcock) who had received her Ph.D. in April 2007 from the PIC program at Binghamton University, had died. She used a wheelchair and was an advocate for people with disabilities. She was in her early 30's. She had a monkey as a helper, a Capuchin I believe. Again, I drew this, mostly disconnected from cognition, being mostly in a state of disoriented affect, although I am conscious of deliberately added elements alluding to wheels. The face at the lower left seems indicative of a monkey's face but it was not intentional. Also, Jennifer had long blond hair, the representation of which in the drawing was also not intentional. That's the beauty of almost direct communication with the unconscious.

Bird Series - C07

I restrained myself until uploading the third and final image in the drawings in the Bird Series 07. It's taken me several months to be able to focus and figure and play around with finding out how to resize, when here it was under my nose all the time, in the scanner program.
With all three drawings, I used my "disability" to advantage, in that I tend to crouch down on the floor when I'm having what I call "disorientation" probably brought on by some slight brain damage from radiation. It enables me to "space" out and lose focus, thereby allowing my psyche to transmit information directly to my fingers without my cognition getting in the way. Even if I have not finished the drawing, usually simply the act of connecting with some inner/outer world this way facilitates my return to this plane of existence.

Bird Series - B07

This is the second in the oil pastel Bird Series of '07. Perhaps some cobalt element is incubating inside of the bird? I was given a small (1 1/2 inch across) ceramic talisman from Turkey that looks much like this cobalt disc.

Bird Series - A07

This is the first in a series of oil pastel drawings that ended up looking like various kinds of birds.

Hiding in the forest.

The title for this picture came to mind only when I noticed the two legs on the right lower side of the drawing. When I finished it, I thought I saw some kind of insect, especially on the left where antennae seem to have appeared. The body is disproportionately huge with perhaps egg cases inside, and perhaps a spine in the center. Perhaps it’s really hiding behind mother bug. This is yet another drawing that comes from the unconscious since I don’t plan ahead. I just start making shapes and fill in, allowing my fingers to choose the colors and what to do. The entire process usually bypasses conscious awareness, going straight from the unconscious to my fingers and then onto the paper.