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From: Susan Guevara <susanguevara_at_jps.net>
Date: Thu, 25 Sep 2014 13:45:09 -0600
Hello Everyone!
Many thanks for including me in this discussion of visual literacy and Little Roja Riding Hood in particular.
> You talk in your notes about the magpies quite a bit, Susan. Was there
> specific reason you chose this particular kind of flower? (Apologies if
> I misidentified it.)
>
> Megan
There are many different blooming wild flowers after and during the summer monsoons in northern New Mexico. Most years (of the 9 that I've lived here), El Rito is blanketed in wild sunflowers interspersed with purple asters. The sunflowers do look a bit like Black eyed susan's with their dark centers but I think the seed centers of the sunflowers are larger than in those of the BE susans. Here's a photo of the flowers in back of the house I used as Little Roja's house.
I love these flowers. They are often covered with all manner of little insects--lady bugs, red ants, black ants, grasshoppers, bees, butterflies, little beetles--a menagerie! I suppose I chose them not just for their beauty and musky smell but because they are so often teeming with this kind of insect life.
When I was doing landscape sketches for this book, I stopped at a glorious cottonwood grove on the 12 mile route (State Rd. 554) from US 84 into El Rito. As I sat amidst these majestic old trees painting, the bug noise was symphonic! That's when I started drawing the bugs in ink line atop the splashes of landscape color--as if they were symbols for the noise I was hearing in those woods (the way musical notes drawn on a staff are symbols for particular sounds). And I suppose all that life also has special resonance for me as I fell asleep one afternoon while driving on that stretch of state road (known to have the most fatalities in the state) and did a beak over tail feathers flip with my car. I was very fortunate to crawl out of my car window unharmed. I've had a couple of encounters with my mortality since living in NM that have given me a very keen and awe-ful appreciation of all life. Even bugs.
More to come!
Susan
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Received on Thu 25 Sep 2014 02:46:11 PM CDT
Date: Thu, 25 Sep 2014 13:45:09 -0600
Hello Everyone!
Many thanks for including me in this discussion of visual literacy and Little Roja Riding Hood in particular.
> You talk in your notes about the magpies quite a bit, Susan. Was there
> specific reason you chose this particular kind of flower? (Apologies if
> I misidentified it.)
>
> Megan
There are many different blooming wild flowers after and during the summer monsoons in northern New Mexico. Most years (of the 9 that I've lived here), El Rito is blanketed in wild sunflowers interspersed with purple asters. The sunflowers do look a bit like Black eyed susan's with their dark centers but I think the seed centers of the sunflowers are larger than in those of the BE susans. Here's a photo of the flowers in back of the house I used as Little Roja's house.
I love these flowers. They are often covered with all manner of little insects--lady bugs, red ants, black ants, grasshoppers, bees, butterflies, little beetles--a menagerie! I suppose I chose them not just for their beauty and musky smell but because they are so often teeming with this kind of insect life.
When I was doing landscape sketches for this book, I stopped at a glorious cottonwood grove on the 12 mile route (State Rd. 554) from US 84 into El Rito. As I sat amidst these majestic old trees painting, the bug noise was symphonic! That's when I started drawing the bugs in ink line atop the splashes of landscape color--as if they were symbols for the noise I was hearing in those woods (the way musical notes drawn on a staff are symbols for particular sounds). And I suppose all that life also has special resonance for me as I fell asleep one afternoon while driving on that stretch of state road (known to have the most fatalities in the state) and did a beak over tail feathers flip with my car. I was very fortunate to crawl out of my car window unharmed. I've had a couple of encounters with my mortality since living in NM that have given me a very keen and awe-ful appreciation of all life. Even bugs.
More to come!
Susan
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