September and October in the small community of Volcano on the Big Island of Hawaii is one of my favorite times of year. The sunlight is crisp, the trade winds coming through have bounced off of our gigantic mountain-volcanoes of Mauna Loa and Mauna Kea offering brisk delightful breezes. And, it is the perfect time to finalize projects before winter. Getting cuttings into pots, setting up two small greenhouses for winter rooting, raking up leaves and cutting back older fronds of our giant Hapu'u ferns and turning them into mulch. All that to say, my studio has essentially looked the same for nearly two months. There are ideas afloat -- numerous collections of color/texture/subject --- but no new collage to share. The fallow-time is as important as the weeks where scissors and glue dominate.
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