We are all under the same sky. We humans are not separate from the earth but part of it. In my sketchbook, I record the terrain with brush and pen. I insert my hands and feet. I walk barefoot on the dirt to feel nature’s pulse. My hand frames the trees, casts a bird shadow. My home backs up to a creek where two recent wildfires roared and afterward, heavy rains created waterfalls in a dry stoney bed. I include the deer, wild turkeys, birds, bees, butterflies, rabbits, squirrels, lizards, racoons, possum, skunk and sometimes, fox and coyotes that populate my yard. Outings to Goat Rock Beach and Armstrong Woods provide subject material.

 

I try to practice the teachings of “Tikkun Olam”, a Hebrew phrase translated as “repair the tear in the world”. Each person is an entire world. Each tikkun reverberates through the rest of the world with the potential to change everything. This environmental sketchbook with its 60 pages is my tikkun.​

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Pages from the Environmental Sketchbook for Eco-Art Caucus (Environmental Caucus within the Women's Caucus for Art)