Loading PictureOn my first visit to the Pepper Tree retreat I was immediately fascinated, and overwhelmed, by this felled, yet alive, ancient pepper tree. In this calm and nurturing place, a tree so central and spiritual, silently perseveres and thrives. It contains the continuity of existence, its crumbling and deeply reticulated old trunk is host to new trunks and a host of vigorous young sapling branches. I kept circling the tree for what seemed like hours, each step presenting a new braiding of sunlight and shadow, texture, movement, warmth and refreshing coolness. After numerous passes I felt compelled to take out my camera and recorded over two hundred images. I had to draw this tree. I immediately realized that the task would be impossible during my short stay, so the photographic images would serve as my fixed observation points, snippets of time as sources for hands’ work. I chose twenty. These images had to be the completing elements to my “Graffite” suite. In the year’s-time that it took to complete these drawings, I was guided by my initial inspiration, calmly letting my eyes see and my hands move. In drawing these works, pulling the intricacies’ of texture and evanescent light out of the black white sheets of paper, I used more than twenty various-shaded pencils and no eraser. Amazingly, the more each sheet was covered by pencil marks, rather than dimming the whiteness and overtaking the paper, the dark graphite allowed each sheet to glow with an increased radiance.


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PepperTree I - 18.25 X 12 - 2012 - Graphite on Bristol

PepperTree II - 18.25 X 12 - 2012 - Graphite on Bristol

PepperTree III - 18.25 X 12 - 2012 - Graphite on Bristol

PepperTree IV - 18.25 X 12 - 2012 - Graphite on Bristol

PepperTree - Three Suites after Images by Jerome Rothenberg and Arie Galles

PepperTree I

PepperTree II

PepperTree III

PepperTree IV


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PepperTree V - 18.25 X 12 - 2012 - Graphite on Bristol

PepperTree VI - 18.25 X 12 - 2012 - Graphite on Bristol

PepperTree VII - 18.25 X 12 - 2012 - Graphite on Bristol

PepperTree VIII - 18.25 X 12 - 2012 - Graphite on Bristol

PepperTree V

PepperTree VI

PepperTree VII

PepperTree VIII


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PepperTree IX - 18.25 X 12 - 2012 - Graphite on Bristol  

PepperTree X - 18.25 X 12 - 2012 - Graphite on Bristol

PepperTree XI - 18.25 X 12 - 2012 - Graphite on Bristol

PepperTree XII - 18.25 X 12 - 2012 - Graphite on Bristol

PepperTree IX

PepperTree X

PepperTree XI

PepperTree XII


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PepperTree XIII - 18.25 X 12 - 2012 - Graphite on Bristol

PepperTree XIV - 18.25 X 12 - 2012 - Graphite on Bristol

PepperTree XV - 18.25 X 12 - 2012 - Graphite on Bristol

PepperTree XVI - 18.25 X 12 - 2012 - Graphite on Bristol

PepperTree XIII

PepperTree XIV

PepperTree XV

PepperTree XVI


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PepperTree XV`II - 18.25 X 12 - 2012 - Graphite on Bristol

PepperTree XVIII - 18.25 X 12 - 2012 - Graphite on Bristol

PepperTree XIX - 18.25 X 12 - 2012 - Graphite on Bristol

PepperTree XX - 18.25 X 12 - 2012 - Graphite on Bristol

PepperTree XVII

PepperTree XVIII

PepperTree XIX

PepperTree XX

 

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