20 Castanets is taken from Barbara Guest’s poem Sleep is 20—a poem about counting sheep or moving from a half consciousness to full. When insignificant things take on significance. The sky wasn’t blue it was September blue.

Dorothea Lasky said “To be a maker is to be down in the muck of making and not always to fly so high above the muck.”

To be down in The Muck of Making.

Much of the work resembles symmetrical inkblots. Tests of perception that were then analyzed and interpreted for meaning…

from some dim unformed sense into significance—September blue

--AC