I just wanted to call your attention for a few moments to my Tumblog, which I am fairly good at forgetting about. It’s probably a really handy thing when you know what to do with it, and so it’s currently my new bright idea to start using Tumblr to “curate” (or round up, I suppose) works by other artists based on a theme. And since I’m getting ready to go camping this weekend, I thought I’d start there. I’ve put together a small collection of camping-inspired artwork — all by Etsy artists, incidentally — and you can find it right here, baby!
Northern Family Camp by David Hayward (Hayward Fine Art Prints)
The smells of the earth: the clean air, a crisp breeze, the early morning dew. The hypnotic dance of the campfire. The farther we go from civilization, it seems, the tighter we become with our camp company: clustered in a circle around a warm fire, telling stories, cooking food, making music, playing games, or simply sitting in silent contemplation. Why do we yearn for such primitive socialization, such rustic existence? Perhaps we’re drawn by an ancestral memory. And if we could read it, perhaps it would say that being submissive to the Earth is as much a part of the human spirit as discovering how to control it. That without knowing the most basic elements of community, we can never possibly be whole. That we must occasionally escape from life in order to survive it.