The Earth Will Survive

 I am late this year with my Earth Day, ( April 21) tribute.

Each year I try to make a piece of art

that pays homage to Tierra de Madre.

The above is 24x18 on board, with vintage maps

and book pages, cardboard and acrylics.

I believe
the earth will survive
against all odds,
will accommodate plastic
and pollution,
every form of human hubris.


The earth will go on
and heal its rivers and fracked frissures,
its monumental wounds.
I believe

 that the earth will continue

to serve life

with or without us.

I am reposting this photo as the collage

remains one of my favorites. It is

20x16 on canvas, with crochet pieces, fabric,

photo transfers and acrylic paint.

from Oh Earth, Wait For Me
by Pablo Neruda


Return me, oh sun,
to my wild destiny,
rain of the ancient wood,
bring me back the aroma and the rays
that fall from the sky,
the solitary peace of pasture and rock,
the damp at the river-margins,
the smell of the larch tree,
the wind alive like a heart
beating in the crowded restlessness...