This letter is about noticing and appreciating landscapes, seascapes, and horizon lines. Why is it so satisfying to divide a piece of paper into two parts and make one part the sky and one part the ground? How is it that one line can convey a great distance? When in doubt of what to draw, draw the horizon.
Right now I’m on a German boat off the coast of California. In Seattle the other day Dawn Cerney gave me a little sketchbook made of nice Canson paper, cut and glued. I decided to fill it with horizons while on this ship. Documenting vastness and distance from a tiny point. 360 degrees over 8 days and 28 pages, piecing together fragments of a circumference. Flattening the distance between “here” and “there”.
In November of last year (by coincidence during election week) I attended a life-changing retreat which you can ask me about if you want. I spent some time in the bottom of the well of nothingness and came out more than alive and made a drawing about it.
Since I haven’t written a newsletter in half a year I’m going to also show some drawings from a little series of postcards I did last year for local farm-to-table restaurant, Okta (R.I.P.). What a delight to draw the garden and the objects in it through the seasons.
That’s it for now. I have something to talk about next month too but don’t count on anything regular! Thank you for being here! I would love to hear how you are and what you are up to.
Love and Peace!
Mia
“Do you have any wish?” is a German waiter’s translation meaning probably “would you like anything else?”