Thank you so very much for your comments and emails. Hearing from readers old and new gave me renewed confidence that what I am trying to do--in life, in art, in this blog--does matter. It's a difficult world, isn't it? We mourn our fellow citizens in Arizona (see Pat's blog for a beautiful post on this); our friends in Australia suffer through devastating floods; our friends in Haiti mark one year since the terrible earthquake, and still they suffer--and so it goes, all around the world. Sometimes I can hardly bear to think of it all. My scientist husband remarked to me that trying to make beauty will always be important in a world of hardship. So yes--we must help others, in every way we can, and we must also pursue Beauty, and have faith in its purpose.
And so from those thoughts, onward to snowflakes, ephemeral and yet, en masse, powerful, as we have been experiencing in the past few days. They cover our land in a frigid blanket. They fall like feathers; they glitter. They sit dull and quiet; they whisper. They pull down power and leave us cold and dark, surrounded by white. And then, crystal by crystal, they vanish.
Last year I made sun prints of snowflake shapes, and I liked them so well I thought I'd share them now. I embellished the prints with white ink.
For the complete post and how-to, see here.
