beautiful impermanence

i have a table set up in my garage that i use for messy art making in the warmer months. my best friend, kristin will come over for an afternoon and we will pass a contented several hours marking up paper with whatever art materials we have on hand. we call it “mark making”. it is free form, intuitive, messy, and fun. so far, no masterpieces have been created. but that doesn’t stop us. any way, that table is now pushed to the side wall in the garage and is heaped with dried bits from previous STIL subjects. today, i started sifting through the remains of summer past, and found these dried, but still intact, tiger lily blossoms. how strange and lovely they still are, after more than 4 months of neglect in my garage!

dried tiger lily flowers (Lilium lancifolium)