Em's Blog

This morning I could think of nothing except the painting I’m currently working on. Actually, one on canvas and another in my head. In common they share a complete departure from any previous approaches to my work. That said, they are both very different from each other. Discovering new ways to express myself is one of the ultimate benefits to being an artist, in my most humble opinion. Drifting away from my obsession with paint, my dominating thought today was:

1) I am not someone who could live “off the grid” and that makes me a little sad.

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I live in California. Southern California. When did 39 degrees at 6:30 AM become OK for Los Angeles! I suppose, with my long standing romantic notion of living on the seasonal northern East Coast, I might consider being grateful for the seasonal weather. Well, I am not. I am cold. At least I will be when I head out for my walk. Perhaps the temperature will have crept up to the low forties by 7AM. Monday’s walk found me nearly too cold to snap any photos. But I did. On my Monday morning walk, when not focused on how darn cold I was, my thoughts hovered here:

1) The diversity of trees in my neighborhood.
2) Trees, like people, are concurrently different and alike. While some are decorative, others provide shade or privacy, but they all produce oxygen. They all have leaves, but some change color and drop in the fall while others remain green year-round. With all these differences, we humans still recognize all trees as trees.
3) What would happen if humankind applied the same view to people.

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