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HPSO Gen(i)us Program featuring Lorene Edwards Forkner< br />"Seeing Color in the Garden"
Color is both a gratuitous gift and one of nature’s most
sophisticated tools, engineered to capture the attention of all living cre
atures. While the lure of color is universal, our response to it is personal and emoti
onally evocative. In a word: powerful.
The ba
ckstory from Lorene Edwards Forkner:
This project began in Ap
ril 2018 when I joined an online creativity challenge. For 100 days I pluck
ed a plant from my garden and tried to capture and record its colors in sim
ple swatches of watercolor. This wasn’t botanical illustration—far from it.
This was an exercise in concentration and seeing what was right in front o
f me.
Now, nearly 3 years later, I’m still going. “Seeing Color in th e Garden” has become my daily practice; a meditative exercise that quiets m y mind even on days when my clumsy attempts frustrate me and fall short of depicting what nature does so elegantly.
Naturally, the garden is the center of my pra ctice because it is the lens through which I view the world. I am a gardene r.
Constantly foraging for color has taught me to be mindful of and a ccept my own cycles of attention. Some days flow with a colorful chime. Oth ers produce nothing but noise and a tiresome repetition that just about doe s me in. Usually, the doing of it is enough. And there’s always tomorrow... and the day after, and the one after that.
Though not necessarily an
y easier, my practice has become second nature—a virtuous cycle that helps
me cultivate awareness.
How we direct our attention matters.<
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Registration is now open: 2021 Genius: Seeing Color in the Garden
This is a Zoom presentation. Price is $5 for members; $10 for non-memb ers
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