What This Heart Seeks.....
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3/9/21
For the past two months I have been looking at, looking through, and looking to find what the other half of this heart will be. I have attempted to photograph reflections on it's surface, through it's surface, but never found the answer. For a recent project, I returned to the wooded area mentioned above, to gather material, specifically moss, the sensuous green velvet, blanketing the PNW. In the NW moss is fancied a sort of porn, we can't get enough of it. For many it signals a sense of home. For the next month or so, the hearts' home will be in these woods, growing, living.

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May 17, 2021
This past March, the forest blanketed in fern and moss, Spring still dormant, I placed the heart - half glass, half steel wire covered with paper and moss - next to a fallen tree.

In early April, the moss I had covered the heart with had fallen back to the earth along with much of the paper.

I returned on May 8th, spring in full bloom, the area completely overgrown and the heart difficult to find - as it had been consumed by the environment, plants growing around and through it.

I will remove the heart from the forest a day or two before the summer Solstice on June 20th, and will place it in a different environment - the Puget Sound and wait, again.......until.......

