A painting of some who-knows-where.

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This is a painting of a beach in the Hamptons out on the end of Long Island.

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We've gotten our tickets and we're preparing for Burning Man. Usually, the event's theme is an afterthought - but this year's theme, the Green Man, actually has some meaning. Participants are being asked to consider the whole of humans' relation to nature:

"Some say it's our chief duty to preserve the natural world intact, protected from the ways of man. This is a worthy goal. And yet, if Burning Man has taught us anything, it's that we can collaborate with nature. Only from immediate experience, not ideologies that stand outside of the created world, may we regenerate a sense of nature as it moves within us and flows through us."

This little painting is a riff on that theme.

It reminds one viewer of an "electric-cement-mixer."

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Created from a photograph by Gail Deutsch.

I grew up on Long Island - from the age of 9 to 18 - but didn't go out to the Hamptons until recently.

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On clear and pleasant morning in Pomo Canyon.

This is the drawing of the week for September 17-23, 2006.

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Ozomatli plays in front of towering redwood trees in the San Francisco treasure of Stern Grove. The site has amazing natural acoustics, which is why Rosalie Stern insisted that free concerts always be held there as a condition of her gift of the park to the city of San Francisco.

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They put churches everywhere on the Greek Islands. This is the final drawing from a series of handmade postcards from Greece. Scroll down to start with the first postcard, "On the Good Ship Dimitroula,"

...to the town of Perrissa on the island of Thira on the island cluster of Santorini, in the Cyclades Islands in Greece, etc. Perissa is one of the beaches of black, lavaliscious, toe-searing, off-putting sand... Then we are relaxed and ready - if reluctant - to begin our long journey home...
XOXO - Lauren and Todd

This is the drawing of the week for May 21-27, 2006.

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Another Postcard from Greece - a series of handmade postcards depicting a trip to the Greek Cyclades islands. These are in reverse chronological order - the first postcard is "The Good Ship Dimitroula."

We hiked 6km - always up hill, and quite a hill at that - away from Katapola, the port town in the middle of long, mountainous Amorgos island, towards Hora, the main town at the tippy-top of the island's peaks... There are few places in the world - in the small part of the world we've seen - that look like a painting rather than as a real place in real time, and Hora on Amorgos is just that. XOXO - Todd & Lauren

This is the drawing of the week for May 14-20, 2006.

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The drawing on this postcard records my impressions of the seascape as we ferried from Naxos to Amorgos.

Just this moment arrived in Amorgos, a long, thin island only ~20mi long in the Greek Cyclades islands. As we stepped off our ferry, after a little more than six placed hours of saaaiiiling, we were greeted by a dozen women holding up laminated books of their domatia and cheap hotels...
XOXOX - Lauren & Todd

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This is a painting to honor the Sea Gull Century bike ride organized by Salisbury University to raise money for a variety of good causes. This painting is the winner of a contest to represent the event which will bring hundreds of bicyclists to Maryland's Eastern Shore on October 7, 2006. In a few months, t-shirts and prints will be available.

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