Photo of Drumhellar Hoo Doos taken by Arlee Barr sometime this weekend.Stolen with shame by Patricia Chauncey
I didn't always live here in this large city by the sea. I lived in Quebec as a little child and had the advantage of a double tongue. One French and one English.
I spent most of my childhood in Alberta. Living in little places where I could dig in the earth and find the past. Where I walked with my Grandmother and Great Grandmother on land that they knew and taught me.
I read Arlee Barr's blog tonight and am delighted that she has discovered my childhood landscape and playground. I learned my prairie eyes there and could see subtle differences in the landscape. How happy I was to see the little flowers and fragile lillies and wild strawberries.
And the rocks!
I spent most of my childhood in Alberta. Living in little places where I could dig in the earth and find the past. Where I walked with my Grandmother and Great Grandmother on land that they knew and taught me.
I read Arlee Barr's blog tonight and am delighted that she has discovered my childhood landscape and playground. I learned my prairie eyes there and could see subtle differences in the landscape. How happy I was to see the little flowers and fragile lillies and wild strawberries.
And the rocks!
Arlee Barr provides me with comfort and inspiration nearly every day. She is a prolific artist with an incredible vocabulary of experimental techniques.
Check out her blog for more pictures of my childhood environment and for her brilliant and exuberant experiments!
http://arleebarr.squarespace.com/designjournal/
1 comment:
Aw, shucks, P! Thanks for the BlogLove :}
I really LOVE that area--something about sub-desert and vasty grey places really speaks to me---don't know why since i was actually raised in a swampy Ontario location..........
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