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Blessed are the weird people: poets, misfits, writers, mystics, painters,
troubadours for they teach us to see the world through different eyes.
– Jacob Nordby

Color is a special gift not all of us receive. I am blessed to grasp, twist, and revel in the full spectrum this moment in time to suit a hunger for rich variety and kaleidoscope of play. However, 1 in 12 men and 1 in 100 women globally, or about the population of USA, are color blind in one of the many ways the brain interacts with our sight. I chose to break into that strange box we call accessibility and apply filters that replicate color blindness against images I already find colorful for a new series, Color Blindness Curves. When we create web pages, business cards, or perhaps even an exhibit we may remember people who see not less but “teach us to see the world through different eyes,” (James Nordby). Please note though that when I filter these for those of us without color blindness I change what the color blind see in my images yet again.

Photos digitally manipulated into geometric forms, using rich color or color enhanced photos. My analytical abstracts and jumping off point for the rest of my abstracts.

What does passion in my art look like? Fay Solais,

Nature has always been a reprieve from life—and I’ve needed it that long. When I’m sitting alone in the woods with the rain or wind rustling in the trees, I feel a quiet, a peace … It feels like my lungs are truly and fully expanding. When I had flowers year around to walk by on the way to or from my apartment, I felt momentary warmth. Going to the nursery twice a year delights me no end. I might as well be in Disneyland. I am at home and at rest among the flora of the world.

Of my heart and reprieve from life’s traumas are my newest digital photograph abstractions—Fay Solais (pronounced su-lish). Solais is Scottish Gaelic and Irish for lights. I am drawn to these cultures both for the Scots-Irish on both sides of my family (with the red hair inherited from my great grandmother to note it) and for the Gaelic grounding to things of the earth. Fay Solais is the pure unadulterated color palette of “green things” in digital art.

Flora Faces are the counterparts to human emotions revealed in the openness of a flower. They are part of my flor-art—flowers of art—pieces that relies on a paint palette over photographs to give the appearance of vivid paintings flora faces jumping off the canvas.

Black and white photographs of Arkansas barns.

All these wonderful moving kaleidoscopes are birthed from photographs. I rejoiced in their birthing because in them I found the kaleidoscope love since childhood. Every one of them has one element that is the same that creates the white in them.

I am invigorated, listening to trees rustled by the wind or tending my garden feeling riches between my fingers. In childhood, I began to photograph earth. Now, my passion extends to cultivating flor-art, such as Pluma.

I am drawn to the culture of Scots Irish as family heritage and for the Gaelic grounding to things of the earth. Pluma are manipulated photos of blooms of my, botanical, and wildflower gardens. In creating flor-art, I forever cultivate my passion and nature.

I can’t tell you how many times I passed barns in times past without a second or even first glance. Now I notice these ordinary structures for the extraordinary variety of architecture from unnamed architects and for being stalwarts of the rural. When all else falls the barn stands to protect those within.

The Roundup series is about enclosure, safety, and endurance against the torrent of time, and it is about encircling, roundup, and embrace within the inclusivity of landscape. They, like people, are both individual and part of a larger plane.