My Tinker Creek Wunderkammer (cabinet of wonders) a collection of seed pod and various other seed types, feathers, shells, insects, 2 skulls, and a dessicated bat, along with original artwork including watercolor, pen and ink with art marker, and relief woodcarving; all housed in an antique barnwood cabinet.
The cabinet is approximatelt 20′ x 30″ and is wired to be hung on the wall.

I love to walk, to look, and to collect interesting objects. Walking unlike other forms of transportation is a great contempletive practice in itself and allows for leisurely and meditative looking and collecting. The world is filled with fascinationg and fascinatingly mundane natural objects – the stuff that makes up this world we inhabit. This was my time to give attention to that stuff.

My Wunderkammer contains a collection of small detritus that of the natural world. Seeds that litter our paths are a wonderful example of difference all evolved for the samr function – to reproduce a new generation. Spiked, burred, rounded, hidden, and rowed like sardines in pods offer an incredible array of beauty. And seeds are just one example of the multiplicity of life and nature that doesn’t just surround us, but which we are part of.
I will continue walking, looking, and collecting these small examples of our natural world.

Annie Dillard’s sojourn on Tinker Creek is a delicious guide to immersing oneself in this world that surrounds us. She gives it attention and the attention blossoms into discovery and discovery and discovery. WOW! to follow her example opens the little patch of earth and water, flora and fauna that is Tinker Creek into the huge and ever expanding blossom of our world. Thank you, Annie!

I love to not only walk, look, and collect, but to draw – and to draw primarily animals animals often in unlikely but reflective human circumstances. These experience makes me want to draw!!!

I have loved this experience and the chance to take some of that love to translate into art. I learned that I am a creature steeped in ignorance but capable of learning from the inexhaustable well of nature that we are immersed in.