Directions in the New Year

Perhaps a more apt title is "Directions To the New Year. World of time and space move in a concurrent fashion where there is no pause to think.

Directions in the New Year, 2018 March 21

It's moving quickly.

Star Power

It is definitely a force and one to be reckoned with.

Papiers colles (6"x4")

Star Action

They dazzle those two poles. North and South, North to South, 

Papiers colles (6" x 4")

and everything in between.

Steering By the Stars

Polaris, the North Star used by the ancient mariners to bring them safely to harbour.

collage with ink (6" x 4")

It is the brightest and closest star in a constellation pointing to where the North Pole should be; a guide, a lodestar, changing over time. 

collage with ink (6" x 4")

 We are always slightly off course then, needing to get back on track, always looking up, seeking guidance, seeing stars in the night sky when all is dark.

Escaping the Page

Lunar phases circling with regularity; the tides moving with them on a daily basis. We question the pull that orients the flow, that causes tidal bores and storm surges.

Ink on paper (6" x 4")

Waxing and waning in crescents and orbs, craters rotate in view of everyone.

Then there is the light!

Not to mention the cheese!

Sailing Revisted

“Blown away on water the colour of warm places, feeling the undertow, the pull of the tides lifting us out to sea, we live on dreams on cold winter days. On the solstice, close to either pole there is comfort in this”.

 (See 21 June 2013 post "Sailing")

The solstice returns, the same sun back in a show of strength.

It's time to set sail again; to sail to the land of two moons on leeward winds.

Seeing Stars

Seeing stars -- a gift of the darkness of the night. Concussed by other light-sources, we see stars but not those that shine in the dark.

And star-struck we watch.

The Sky Plays While We Sleep

Reflecting the light of the sun the moon marks time. Old and new, waxing and waning, it shines in the sky making magic in the evening.

 

Is this the month of the blue one?

Alone in the Universe

Plotting a course through the immensity of the universe it never pays to dwell on our place in it, nor even ponder a little. Yet it is a constant this universe of ours; this immensity and our aloneness in it.

 

We are all so mobile and so connected yet if we stop to take notice, we are amongst the lucky ones.

The Firmament (warning: archaic word)

The vaulting arch of the sky at once luminous, limitless, and ever moving, puts on a planetary show at nightfall. Within their own spheres, in their own orbits, they speak of light from long ago. Such immensity only shows itself in the dark.

No longer navigational guides they have become beacons to our future and objects of wonder.