Photo: D Knight

Wilderness continued

Last week I posted some quotes and images that are inspiring me lately. I've also been

carrying around a quote in my diary since last year:

Wilderness is not a luxury but a necessity of the human spirit. - Edward Abbey. 

They need little explanation - evoking space, provoking thought and handing out a challenge 
to choose a large sheet of paper and some chalky or waxy drawing tools to describe my 
response. My son's travels in Patagonia were a delicious catalyst  - those vast expanses of 
uninhabited wilds are pretty awesome. So I picked up a battered copy of 'In Patagonia' 
by Bruce Chatwin and a new Moleskine this week. 

As I sketch, I'm thinking about the concept of wilderness as uncharted or unclaimed internal 
stage too, not only as physical geographical landscape.

Here's another quote: 

The wilderness is a place of rest - not in the sense of being motionless, for the lure, after all, is to move, 

to round the next bend. The rest comes in the isolation from distractions, the slowing of the daily 

centrifugal forces that keep us off balance. - David Douglas


I'm hoping to be able to play in the studio over the next month in between work, healing my damaged 
knee and sheltering from the almost unbearable heat from the tin roof in this small space. 

    Photo: D Knight (Patagonia)