The exhibit is still up for a couple months! Would make a great vacation...see the National Preserve and Parks plus Clyde Butcher's Gallery; Swamp Walks, boat outings, best weather of the year and almost no insects! Lots of wildlife including migratory birds congregating around easily accessible water...
Please check out the National Park Service site "Plan your Visit"
http://www.nps.gov/bicy/planyourvisit/art-exhibits.htm
Please check out the National Park Service site "Plan your Visit"
http://www.nps.gov/bicy/planyourvisit/art-exhibits.htm
Nov 1, 2013--January 31, 2014 Exhibit: Fletcher Sketches Big Cypress
On-location art and related works from the National Artist-in-Residence Program sponsored by Big Cypress National Preserve,Florida , USA.
On-location art and related works from the National Artist-in-Residence Program sponsored by Big Cypress National Preserve,
Below: a sample from the 52 paintings
selected for the exhibit from 83 artworks
paintings, sketches and poem-paintings
wildflowers and sun showers
Alligator (eyes) floating with trees and sky reflected
Mangroves meet the Prairie
Pairs of birds, gators and cypress trees
juvenile gator (still has stripes)
Big Cypress Gold
the large poem-painting composed
on-location in the kayak:
Big Cypress
The unnamed Roads of
waterworld create a wetlands maze
of winding mangrove tunnels
where wet prairies go for days
and days upon their grassy
swampy sunny sidewalk ways
until a Big cool Cypress
The bird and reptile
residents will tolerate a human guest.
A fish might jump into your
boat and you might see a nest.
But remember we are visitors
and they don’t bother us
“Observe, Experience,
Connect” and don’t betray their trust.
When leaving
water-wonder-world,
take memories--
all you can hold;
but leave behind
so all can find
Preserved, Big Cypress gold!
Poem & Image ã12/27/13 and 10/11/14 Mark Fletcher
Big Cypress
National Preserve
