Nature emulates 20th century art.
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Intaglio
… or the impression of intaglio.
Evolution
From sea to land …
The Green is Missing!
Almost a rainbow-full of color, but not quite.
These pebbles were not moved from how I found them on the beach, and the colors were not enhanced in any way. This is how the tide clustered them on the beach at Spittal, and the colors are true. Absolutely magical!
Blue of Land, Blue of Sea
The colors on Spittal’s beach are plenty, but soft and gentle like a tweed fabric. When one looks carefully all the colors of the rainbow are able to be found. Here, the sea’s shell and a well-worn pebble are each quite blue. It almost seems as if they have sought one another out in the sand.
Repose
Tumbled into softness, a twig and a brick create an eroded still life.
Blue Pebble, Sprouted
The pebbles on this area of the Northumberland coast are all beautifully multi-colored, like the shades in a lovely, soft tweed. Every color in the rainbow is present, delicate and muted. This one pebble, though, stood apart as a more vivid blue. Perhaps it is the seaweed beside it in this still life that brings out the blue.
Loving Northumberland’s Coastline
There is nothing … nothing … that I do not love about the Northumberland coastline. From the cliffs, to the dunes, from the wild waves and enormous tidal shifts, to the castles that dot the horizon, I love this area of the world. For one small second, captured here on Spittal’s beach, I sensed the coastline smiling back at me.
Of Sky and Sea
Spittal, Northumberland
Wilted
This delicate, damp feather seemed to spoon the pebble, graceful even after its usefulness has waned.
