Showing posts with label David Mas Masumoto. Show all posts
Showing posts with label David Mas Masumoto. Show all posts

Friday, December 6, 2013

Late Afternoon December Field and Managed Chaos
















A 9x12 oil on panel.

I've been reading a book called Epitaph for a Peach by David Mas Masumoto, which I found fittingly at the dump.  It's a book filled with wisdom acquired through Masumoto living the life of a farmer dependent upon nature, and other things out of one's control.  The writer mentions a farmer friend who paints, who uses a variety of greens to depict plants,  and who also likes to depict piles of discarded fruit trees assembled by the bulldozer.  I might paint a picture of the discarded barn, another pile of wood.  Masumoto wrtes:  "This past year I have learned that productivity is little more than managed chaos, wildness the source of fertility."