Guadalupe Meditation

These few comments provide context for the Guadalupe River Meditation combines. A river is a metaphor for the cycle of life. The waters of the Guadalupe, from its living springs in Texas Hill Country limestone down to its entry into the delta of San Antonio Bay, are on a journey. It is always the Guadalupe. From the spring waters of our youth until the still waters of our ending, we follow a path much like a river. The river has water, flora and fauna appropriate to each season and location along its course. A Guadalupe bass cannot live in the delta; and a redfish cannot live in the Hill Country streams of the South Fork. The cypress and salt grass both belong to the river, but have no choice as to place. Birds have free agency tied to the journey of the river, just as our free will is bound to our place and time. Detritus contained in windowed vitrines is used to document date and place, just as the art documents my experience of the river and life.