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Red Lilies Returned

Yesterday I heard the last cicadas sing.
And look who arrived on the scene just about the same time.

A red spider lily blossom.

Studying the shapes of the subject is not the most exciting phase of the dye project. Sluggishness sets in more often than I wish to admit. The insect scene outside shifting from my beloved cicadas to crickets doesn’t help neither.

A colored flower drawing.

But before I had a chance to zombify myself, spider lilies turned up, slightly earlier this year, in much like a bull fight fashion.
(Red works for me too!)

Resuscitated, now I’m back on a river-side path where I fell in love with those lilies a year ago. A lady with a dog greeted me back (“I was wondering whether you’d show up this year”). Nice to be remembered as a lily-fanatic with a camera.

Red spider lily blossoms.
Red spider lily blossoms.

Red. Unrest.


A spider lily petal drawing.
A spider lily petals drawing.

Listen
until you hear the Waves roaring in the petals.

Sea surface.
A spider lily petal drawing.

The drawing is of spider lily petals, colored pencil on paper, 38 x 54cm, a continuing study of the blossom for my upcoming dye piece.
Currently going through bouts of overwhelm at the sight of the bold red challenge. Too late though, I’ve already seen, and heeded, too much of what they have to unveil.

Small adjustment made on texts in the middle on 17Sep21

Lily sans Red.

Flower pencil sketches.
Flower pencil sketches.

Study on spider lilies continues on.

Flower pencil sketches.

Getting more detailed, developing a somewhat specific direction compared to the ones I did a bit ago.

すべて彼岸花。
子供の頃地獄花と呼んで怖がった、と昨秋満開の河原で撮影中に犬連れの女性が話してくれた。心に残る一期一会。2つ前の投稿の続編。

Spider Lily Red

Red spider lilies in Japanese farm.
Sun lit clouds.
A red spider lily blossom.

Spider Lily is the kind of flower that makes me feel like I am looking at something I should not.

Flower pencil sketches.
A red spider lily blossoms.

All, except for the drawing, the first study of the blossom, were photographed back in Autumn 2012.

abstract artwork with a lily and a shell.
2021.09.28 – Stir.