Open Your Eyes

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I am not in the most creative of moods. I am trying to fight off a cold...but I don't think I am winning.
I did manage to get to my art table last night -- feeling a bit spacey from some over-the-counter cold medication.
I was thinking of when I was a little kid and the amount of time I would spend outside. I was fascinated by grasshoppers. I could stare at them for hours it seemed. These days I rarely, if ever, see a grasshopper. Is it because they are no longer around here where I live on the coast...or is it because my eyes are no longer as 'open' as they were as when I was a kid...missing so much in a hurried world...?
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*the junk mail I used in this piece were the words "open your eyes"...the grasshopper is an image transfer I did onto unbleached muslin using clear caulking as the transfer medium.
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...And here is a little 'gift' for Marita, my new friend in the Netherlands...no words are needed...I know you will 'get it' Marita...these are growing outside the front door of our cottage...