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Water Stations: a river pilgrimage 2016

The silence behind a story The river swells The measurement of borderlands The faint cry for food The sadness of someone gone The drawing of seeds from the flower The … Continue reading

January 28, 2017 · Leave a comment

Gestural Rivers Flowing Mind

Ink flows as thoughts become a river of marks Choreography of mind: the still point before a storm of thinking visions Imaginary forms Pre-linguistic apparitions Something imprinted A cellular level … Continue reading

October 24, 2014 · Leave a comment

Sculpting Rivers – Remembering February 2014

River Spines 2014 – woven metal sculptures Journal Entry February 2014 Just after heavy snow fall: Walked as far as I could in the frozen creek. Looking through sections of … Continue reading

February 6, 2014 · Leave a comment

Rivers for Udo (paintings and text inspired by Udo Kasemets compositions) 2013-14

    Rivers for Udo Water remembers such sound Filtered Minded Edited with the purity of chance Invested with a rigour of discerning practice Rivers Infinite Yet marked with features … Continue reading

January 31, 2014 · Leave a comment

Markings

Apparition: A video performance created by Maralynn Cherry (all performance, visual footage and text by the artist, editing  and voice over performed by Jenn Cole)  The second half of the … Continue reading

September 20, 2013 · Leave a comment

Soundings (River Songs a Quartet)

Sounding 1 carved acrylic on birch ply 2013 Soundings : River voices in four part choral Looking down into water currents, an infinity of movement shapes a morphology of mind … Continue reading

September 17, 2013 · Leave a comment

Internalization of River Forms (infinite becomings)

Topography of Conscience while traveling rivers in the Oak Ridges Moraine RIVER PAINTINGS (FLOW SERIES) 2012 OIL ON BIRCH PLY 5FT X 2.5FT 1) WHERE RIVER MEETS OCEAN 2) RIVER … Continue reading

September 15, 2013 · Leave a comment

Painting Rivers /Becoming Rivers/ Dreaming Rivers

Karst 1 Oil on birch ply 2013 Dreaming Rivers  (an ecology of remembering) while traveling Journal excerpts from Genius Loci  “ A river is superior to a lake in its … Continue reading

September 11, 2013 · 1 Comment