Oh, happy accident! To run out of black sumi-e ink one day and reach out for more color...waiting for days and days for the inks on vinyl to dry and at last, of course, they did. Very happy with these and hoping to come up with a good idea to frame them. The vinyl sheets are approximately 11x14. They are all for sale, and should be up for display at McGuffey in my studio by First Friday! If I keep this up, I may even have enough work for an actual show! Productive, productive! No social life and no sleep makes Nina's studio time pay off. Thank you, OCD.

Monoprints, japanese sumi-e and colored inks, acrylic on mulberry paper and vinyl

words are pictures, too, wittgenstein be damned...

elephant parable, tweet-size

this room in my heart is like this:  one day, after a long drive,

an elephant came to stay (a white one).  maybe a little cracked on the edges, clumsy handling.  needing a rest.  found soft spot, turned three times, lay down (pointing north);  slept. 

don’t mention it.

  

nina frances burke

Ink, Acrylic on Vinyl, Waiting for Evaporation and too much Radiohead

Ink and acrylic experiments continue...investigating various surfaces to find the one that allows the most movement with some element of control. The last photos with the yellow and turquoise colors are still (obviously) wet - been out of the studio for two days with a bad cold and I absolutely cant wait to get back and see how they're becoming! Its the most exciting work I've done so far. The vinyl sheets were a random "found" object from a friend, and I've been thrilled with the results so far. They do take some patience! I'm using so much water that it can take days and days to evaporate and leave the ink behind - and a great deal of "hurry up and wait". Hey, it only adds to the element of "practice" in a meditative, mindfulness, buddhist sense - that same idea I have of guiding the movement of the paint without controlling it...allowing the shapes and lines to be born into space (pictorial space, that is). That, and also I've been listening to too much Radiohead. Lots and lots of Radiohead.
All day, every day, its Radiohead. Its what my brain sounds like, on the inside. There's some sort of magic to it that "sync's" inside my head and makes everything move to the exact pattern of sound that they create. AAaacckkk! Starting to sound too weird even for me!