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Mint Hemlock

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Image Transfer and Watercolor on Strathmore CP Watercolor Paper

Mounted on Cradled Wood Panel

Available unframed or framed

5" x 7"


Part of Jennie’s new series of Tea Scapes that combine image transfers of tea packaging with layered landscapes of environments she’s explored, to both salvage detritus from the trash, as well as depicting a need for space and increased mindfulness.


This was created earlier this year after a visit to South Mountain Reservation's own Hemlock Falls, a 25' waterfall located not far from my home. A visit to this waterfall always grounds me, produces a sense of awe and wonder of what nature is capable of. ⁣Mint, which is the tea flavor under the watercolor, has rejuvenating and energizing properties - much the same as the power of a waterfall. 

⁣

"The Waterfall" by Mary Oliver:⁣

⁣

"For all the said,⁣

I could not see the waterfall⁣

until I came and saw the water falling,⁣

its lace legs and its womanly arms sheeting down,⁣

⁣

while something howled like thunder,⁣

over the rocks,⁣

all day and all night –⁣

unspooling⁣

⁣

like ribbons made of snow,⁣

or god’s white hair.⁣

At any distance⁣

it fell without a break or seam, and slowly, a simple⁣

⁣

preponderance –⁣

a fall of flowers – and truly it seemed⁣

surprised by the unexpected kindness of the air and⁣

light-hearted to be⁣

⁣

flying at last.⁣

Gravity is a fact everybody⁣

knows about.⁣

It is always underfoot,⁣

⁣

like a summons,⁣

gravel-backed and mossy,⁣

in every beetled basin –⁣

and imagination –⁣

⁣

that striver,⁣

that third eye –⁣

can do a lot but⁣

hardly everything. The white, scrolled⁣

⁣

wings of the tumbling water⁣

I never could have⁣

imagined. And maybe there will be,⁣

after all,⁣

⁣

some slack and perfectly balanced⁣

blind and rough peace, finally,⁣

in the deep and green and utterly motionless pools after all that⁣

falling?" ⁣


Will be available in a virtual group show.

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  • Home
  • Portfolio
    • TeaScapes
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