Bird Song – Cut Paper Art
5 x 7 inch paper cutting. Matted and framed to 8 x 10 inches.
Hanging outside in the springy weather (finally!) with the squirrels. (I think his posture may indicate that he’s rather comfortable around me at this point…).
Birds in Glass Things
Each measures approximately 2.5 x 4 inches. Matted and framed to 5 x 7.
Bird Song – Cut Paper Art
5 x 7 inch paper cutting.
When The Clouds Clear – Cut Paper Art
8 x 10 inch paper cutting.
Wait for the Clouds to Clear – In progress
Atchison, KS, April, 2010
Sunset by Rainer Maria Rilke
Slowly the west reaches for clothes of new colors
which it passes to a row of ancient trees.
You look, and soon these two worlds both leave you
one part climbs toward heaven, one sinks to earth.
leaving you, not really belonging to either,
not so hopelessly dark as that house that is silent,
not so unswervingly given to the eternal as that thing
that turns to a star each night and climbs-
leaving you (it is impossible to untangle the threads)
your own life, timid and standing high and growing,
so that, sometimes blocked in, sometimes reaching out,
one moment your life is a stone in you, and the next, a star.
Baby Bird Paper Cuttings
Just hatched today.. each measures 1 1/2 x 2 1/2 inches. Framed slightly larger.
Night Riders – Cut Paper Art
11 x 14 inch paper cutting. I decided to change the birdhouse that the donkey was previously carrying to a lantern. The lantern was my first idea and then I changed it to the birdhouse after thinking about it too much.. I should know better by now not to second-guess myself because I almost always revert back my first thoughts.
Waking Moon – Cut Paper Art
Waking Moon – 8 x 10 inch paper cutting. Used for the cover of Lantern Journal, Vol. II, Issue I. Check it out here: http://lanternjournal.org/category/v2i1/
And here’s a little article about my work with pics, etc: http://lanternjournal.org/wp-content/uploads/V2i1/Pickman%20-%20Praecisio%20-%20v2i1.pdf