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Goshawk Looking
Acrylic Ink on 2" Gesso Board by
Roderick
MacIver
Unframed
Original
(30" x 30") $1400
Limited
Edition Print |
The stars seem close tonight
Closer than my neighbors
Closer than the town
Five miles down the road.
Snowshoeing at night
In winter woods
The way lit by moonlight.
Down to the beaver flow
Down to the gurgle where black water
Forces its way up through clear ice.
To listen for a few minutes
To the winter woods
There is nothing much to hear.
Maybe I go so that
When I return to cabin and woodstove
I appreciate them more.
It is so still out here
So still, so quiet, so white, so blue.
In celebration of the Great Dance of Life,
Roderick
W. MacIver
About
This Week’s Painting
When
I started Northern Goshawk Looking, I planned to do a
semi-abstract painting much in the style of Coastal
Cougar, but with a blue background. As I painted, I got
more and more into a realistic representation, inspired by the
Goshawk’s interesting facial patterns and powerful gaze.
*Owl
and Moon, above, is available as a limited
edition print.
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The
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Ralph
Waldo Emerson was among the first to incorporate the importance of wild
nature into his worldview, and was instrumental in the founding of Transcendentalism.
Heron Dance has collected excerpts from his writings, gleaned from personal
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soul and brilliant mind whose work has affected our perception of the
natural world in many subtle ways.
Nature
is a mutable cloud which is always and never the same. She
casts the same thoughts into troops of forms, as a poet makes
twenty fables with one moral. Beautifully shines a spirit
through the bruteness and toughness of matter.
—
Ralph Waldo Emerson, excerpted from The Laws of Nature.
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It
is a certain faeryland where we live. You may walk out in any
direction over the Earth’s surface, lifting your horizon,
and everywhere your path, climbing the convexity of the globe,
leads you between Heaven and Earth, not away from the light of
the sun and stars and the habitations of men. I wonder that I
ever get five miles on my way, the walk is so crowded with events
and phenomena. How many questions there are which I have not put
to its inhabitants.
—
Henry David Thoreau, excerpted in Issue 56
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Art
as A Way of Life
Selections from the Work of Rod MacIver |
Roderick
MacIver's art is inspired by his deep love of wild nature and the peace
he finds there. His watercolors and other paintings depict wildlife,
wild landscapes and the spirit of wilderness. Heron Dance offers Rod's
art in a variety of formats and price ranges.
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