ice yields

images from a mummy now freed from a glacier on Pico de Orizaba because of climate change

-and-

images of "Blood Falls" on the Taylor Glacier in Antarctica

closed systems

 water thing at Sideling Hill, MD

 water meters in Orlando, FL

 pipes on the University of Chicago campus

 water meter in Maitland, FL

 water meter in Winter Park, FL

 water meters in Baldwin Park, Orlando, FL

 bathroom pipes at the University of Chicago

 gas meter in Pilsen, Chicago, IL

 gas meter in Pilsen, Chicago, IL

gas pipes on the University of Chicago campus

sketch for a closed system

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)

books from Beloit and plants from Madison (Wisconsin)

slow foxglove 

snow storm spirea 

Nordic carpet bearberry cotoneaster

"night blind"

bat box
midnight
mid-night
midnight black
night blind
RISK POOL
night vision

the form of night

a bat box i found on the grounds of Fallingwater this past weekend - at the time i did not know what it was, but it was clear to me that it was an odd and mysterious form

car tires and weather symbols

i just bought this, shit!

i tuned into WBEZ online this morning (because the NPR in Baltimore isn't my favorite) and heard an interview with this author on Worldview.

The Green Boat : Reviving Ourselves in Our Capsized Culture by Mary Pipher

SYNOPSIS
Pipher is back with another groundbreaking examination of everyday life, this time exploring how to conquer the fears about major environmental issues and transform them into a positive force in for life

*****

"Mary Pipher takes on our planet's greatest problems with the skills of a truly gifted therapist. She knows why we avoid and deny the truth and she knows how we can heal ourselves and our communities even as we try to heal the earth. This book is a deep and true gift."—Bill McKibben, author of Eaarth

In Reviving Ophelia, Mary Pipher offered a paradigm-shattering look at the lives of adolescent women. Now Pipher is back with another ground-breaking examination of everyday life, this time exploring how to conquer our fears about the major environmental issues that confound us and transform them into a positive force in our lives.

Pipher emphasizes the importance of taking small, positive steps to preserve what’s important, drawing from her own experiences as part of a group fighting energy company TransCanada’s installation of the Keystone XL oil pipeline across the Midwest, which will sit atop the Ogallala Aquifer, the source of 40% of the United States’ fresh water. The challenges she confronts reveal surprising answers to the critical questions we face: How do we mobilize ourselves and our communities to work together to solve global problems? How do we stay happy amid very difficult situations? And what is the true meaning of hope?

cooking up something good

research and collecting possible parts for a piece as you would search for ingredients and substitutions for a recipe.

water
ice (missing)
faux ______
fear
life support
the spectacle

Rise / Springs / Syzygy

I am working on some research for a drawing about Hurricane Sandy. I plan on using red silt that washed up in my house to make a drawing of a full moon. Below is some research for this drawing.

 collected silt that washed up in my house during Hurricane Sandy

The semi-diurnal range (the difference in height between high and low waters over about half a day) varies in a two-week cycle. Approximately twice a month, around new moon and full moon when the Sun, Moon and Earth form a line (a condition known as syzygy^[8]) the tidal force due to the sun reinforces that due to the Moon. The tide's range is then at its maximum: this is called the spring tide, or just springs. It is not named after the season but, like that word, derives from the meaning "jump, burst forth, rise", as in a natural spring.
-Wikipedia

moon phase over Hurricane Sandy when it hit land in NJ/NY/etc