Morris Graves Museum,
Eureka, CA
June 14-July 22 2012
"Orchid Dreams"
I'm having a one woman show of paintings on bamboo panels 5 hours north at the Morris Graves Museum in the great redwood nation north of my home. I've been an orchid geek for many years. I don't raise them, but have been enamored with the wild, native ones that grow all over the world. In my mind, orchids are fellow citizens of the world. They (like other flowers) are powerful spiritual companions whose language we don't quite understand, but are drawn to from the little micro,micro particles of our DNA.
I'm especially jazzed for this opportunity because the namesake of the museum, Morris Graves ( 1910-2001) is a painter that I have admired for a long time. He is labeled a "transcendental painter" and was a practicing Buddhist. Among other subjects he painted a series of flowers that provide an early inspiration for flower groupings in small bottles.
