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Monday 9 April 2018

Fossils and prints.


 I've been making some prints, using colographs and plants, layering up the colours to see what happens; they remind me of fossils. Something to do with the hidden showing through.   I just love fossils, they are always fascinating.   I can't comprehend the billions of years that life has continued for and how I am looking at an ancient life form.  I have a few fossils, collected over the years, at Robin Hood's bay, mainly.  Awe.... really doesn't do it justice!   This is a rock I found on a beach in Cleveland.  There were loads like this, just full of fossils.  That North East coast is great and everyone goes to Dorset. Long may it continue!!


I found a poem by Lindley Williams Hubbell.  I hope it's ok to post an excerpt of it here.  Rather a lovely poem about fossils.  Captures the wonder.

.............. But these
Exquisite fern-like forms
Printed on the rock,
these fragile plants that have 
survived the storms
Of some odd billion years
Move me almost to tears

So I come here often 
to see these delicate stems
Breathed on rock like frost
crystals on a window,
But permanently
But forever.
This rock is my favourite book,
my favourite picture,
my dependable scripture,
My sense of wholeness, a 
billion years at my elbow.










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