bookmarks & invasive plants

Here are a few invasive plants I found just outside of the Cornell Fine Arts Center, and along the path by Lake Virginia, Rollins College campus.

young Camphor Tree

Wild Taro (or Arum, but I doubt it)

Wedelia or Creeping Oxeye [blurry]

Japanese Honeysuckle being printed (photogram made with the sun and black construction paper)

frond & black paint

wishbone / fingernail

hangnail, wishbone

angnail

wishbone

from James Schuyler's poem The Crystal Lithium

"i have windows [in my hospital] but they're painted black" 

- my brother Matt, while driving in the rain during a black-out

new studio work(ing)

been settling in in Winter Park; looking at some Cy Twombly, Daniel Dezeuze, and Aram Saroyam. I haven't figured out what my "Florida" work looks like yet, but I think I'm on the way.

I have full access to the Rollins wood lab, so I've been working in there on some things that I probably would have made as drawings otherwise 

a new version of KT Boundary (Kudzu) 

photo/sketch - a page from a book on Cy Twombly's drawings and 3 pieces of glacial float copper 

Mirage (canteen, 24 rabbit's feet, and water) 2014 [bad photograph, though]

Newness, or the Fresh Prince of Winter Park

I moved to Winter Park, Florida, earlier this week for a one year position at Rollins College. I'm really excited about it and have spend the past week setting up my place, organizing myself, polishing my classes, and setting up my "studio".
Today I found a pretty nice coffeehouse by Lake Rose (which was formed in the '80's by a sinkhole... that was caused by groundwater over-use). This lake has some great examples of invasive plants growing around it.
Being in a new place, by myself, and having to essentially re-start my studio practice is both stressful and exciting. Everything I do or think about seems light and full of possibilities, but I am also working against the feeling of being un-grounded. I would like it if I could leave my studio un-grounded in a productive way.

 Air Potato (Dioscorea bulbifera) leaf found at Lake Rose

 Kudzu (Pueraria lobata) by Lake Rose

 Kudzu (Pueraria lobata) leaf from Lake Rose

water from Lake Rose