February

The month of love has arrived, and with it, a new work of love themed art.  This piece is a drawing made with thread.  It was inspired by a Meissen porcelain figurine of a pastoral scene.  

5x7"  "The Path to Love"

This is a series of drawings with thread that I made 2 years ago:

8x10" "Growth #3"

8x10" "Growth #4"

8x10" "Growth #1"

8x10" "Growth #2"

In closing, I have begun reading Proust now, and I've found the first 100 pages or so, remarkably beautiful.  

"But when from a long-distant past nothing subsists, after the people are dead, after the things are broken and scattered, taste and smell alone, more fragile but more enduring, more insubstantial, more persistent, more faithful, remain poised a long time, like souls, remembering, waiting, hoping, amid the ruins of all the rest; and bear unflinchingly, in the tiny and almost impalpable drop of the essence, the vast structure of recollection." (p 51)

I like to imagine that the lovers I've drawn will have a new experience of grapes from this day forward...