WHEN I ARRIVED IN OLYMPIA I found I had received the gift of a haiku from a friend. The poem was from Roger, along with a small fragment of sandstone and my long-surviving shop teacup. Roger is now living amidst the wild cacao trees of Tranquilidad in Bolivia, but the poem and the stone perfectly reflect (or imperfectly don’t reflect?) a shared life at one of the strangest most eclectic chocolate shops that has probably existed.
In one of life’s typical inescapable coincidences, they also imperfectly don’t reflect my personal shift toward the use of natural colorants in my art. The shift from visions of metal and glass to a settled sense of earth and growth seems right to me. Thank you for confirming my thoughts, Roger.
I cast Rainforest Emergence in Bolivia Tranquilidad 68% Heirloom dark chocolate and painted it with achiote, matcha. wasabi, and rum.
Sandstone, rough yet soft
No perfection, glass, or shine
That is not its way
Original sculpture by Teresa Morehouse
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