Queen Annes Lace Collection
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Queen Annes Lace (cabinet)
Watercolor, Sumi ink, acrylic, acrylic medium, Japanese handmade papers, Unryu papers, Queen Anne’s Lace collected in the Columbia River Gorge, vintage cabinet from kitchen in Portland, Oregon
28"x18" $725.
Created on vintage kitchen cabinets from renovated kitchens here in Portland, Oregon and generously donated to me by the homeowners. I take the cabinets and sand them down, clean them up from their years of honorable work of storing plates and cooking pots and cans of beans, and give them a new life. I add handmade papers, bits of gold leaf, and make small embellishments with Sumi ink . I love this process and I love seeing the end results. I hope you will love it too.
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Queen Annes Lace (small)
Watercolor, dyes, Sumi ink, acrylic medium, Unryu papers, beeswax, handmade paper embedded with grasses collected at Cascade Head on the Oregon Coast
4" x 4", Maple Panel $150.
August Morning by Albert Garcia
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It's ripe, the melon
by our sink. Yellow,
bee-bitten, soft, it perfumes
the house too sweetly.
At five I wake, the air
mournful in its quiet.
My wife’s eyes swim calmly
under their lids, her mouth and jaw
relaxed, different.
What is happening in the silence
of this house? Curtains
hang heavily from their rods.
Ficus leaves tremble
at my footsteps. Yet
the colors outside are perfect–
orange geranium, blue lobelia.
I wander from room to room
like a man in a museum:
wife, children, books, flowers,
melon. Such still air. Soon
the mid-morning breeze will float in
like tepid water, then hot.
How do I start this day,
I who am unsure
of how my life has happened
or how to proceed
amid this warm and steady sweetness?
Currently showing at Volta Gallery in Lincoln City, OR
Queen Anne's Lace I
11"x14" Watercolor, dyes, Sumi ink, acrylic medium, Japanese handmade papers, Unryu papers, maple panel board, Queen Anne’s Lace collected in the Columbia River Gorge, Oregon $495.
*Not included in studio sale.