his answer

Shouts of joy resound in my tent. He did it.

The Lord has done mighty acts. He answered me.

Thus, pens song writer and poet David, son of Jesse.

The day the dragon wind howled in my ears,

surrounded by juicy mulberries,

just west of the Floyd Levee, off blacktop B,

this is the information I came home with.

 My dream was to capture

the branches going up up up above my head,

 yeah, imagine this, on a horizontal canvas.
Double click on image to enlarge.
(15"h x 24"w on stretched canvas)

The dream took shape

when I rendered an abstract on square paper.

(18 x 18 inches)

It was during the workouts

 in the water and

 the sauna heat,

the waiting, the pausing,

the resting of the mind,

that He brought it to me.

The square graphite came next.

(12 x 12 inches)

There are too many

changes that He granted,

praise to His name, His majestic name.

So grateful this image came to be.

The desire of my heart,

placed within by His intention

bestowed by His affection.

Harder still would be 

the converting

of graphite swiggles

 into solid black shapes.

Inked linoleum block
 (twelve inches square)
Double click on images to see enlarged.

Trial proof

Woodcuts and paintings
Now on display
lower level of Burkholder Project
Lincoln, Nebraska
August 3-28