Serendipitous Moments in Blogland

It's funny how our sites and blogs and thoughts seem to intersect at varying points -- some of us have been writing about spring and this bout of warm weather we've been having; others are writing about their writing and poetry, while others are highlighting a favorite artist or inspiration.

I just visited Eva Macie's blog and she wrote of Pat Dews, a wonderful artist who inspires many via her books, workshops and DVDs. When I saw Eva's work, I had to chuckle because I had just loaded this digital image to my Redbubble site. I titled it "Dark Topography," which is what Eva's work reminded me of -- an intricate topographical surface -- filled with amazing cracks and fissures, crevices to investigate -- to let the eye wander over, again and again.

This image was a shot of a water-damaged wall. I inverted it to a negative, then played with the hues, etc. It reminded me of a moon shot, those grainy images of pitted and scarred surfaces of the moon that are relayed back to earth!

And then one of those moments when you stumble across a quote, a bit of writing and -- wham! There it is: image and text mingling and merging in the mind's eye:

my way is in the sand flowing
between the shingle and the dune . . .

Samuel Beckett

So -- not a moonscape but rather looking down at the dark sands while drifts of water hide or reveal flotsam & jetsam, a catch of pebbles, a ripple of seaweed, little secret colors and textures that disappear as quick.

Don't you just love these serendipitous moments? Way cool, as my son would say!