keri marion

a life in the making

Author: Keri

  • The Prodigal Landscape

    The Prodigal Landscape

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    I. Tight Spaces  Lately I’ve been thinking obsessively about the variant landscapes of our lives: cultural landscapes, political landscapes, social landscapes, and of course, the physical earthen landscape. Each restrictive in its own way; all these partitioned spaces in which to squeeze these enormous American ideals, like forcing an oversized square peg into an unwavering…

  • Old Bones and Reliquaries

    Old Bones and Reliquaries

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    I. Structures & Impermanence As we approach the midpoint of the year and the passages project (which I’m now calling a year-long study), I want to touch on some of my discoveries through this process. I’ve always been fascinated with the lore of ghosts towns, lonesome cowboys, tropes of abandonment and resilience; the overwhelming silence…

  • passages

    passages

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    I. I have been thinking a lot about what I might call this series for at least two months, and I think I’ve arrived at the word, “passages.” It is straightforward, direct, and uncomplicated, but also layered and interpretive. I asked a Guatemalan girlfriend what word she used for cloudscapes and she said “paisaje del…

  • In Tension

    In Tension

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    I. The situation. As I approach the first quarter of this project, I have uncovered new insight around my practice and about myself, accordingly; I thought I would share. I was approached by a curious neighbor who had seen me around the neighborhood taking photographs. She asked me why I was taking pictures of her…

  • In The Way

    In The Way

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    Well, here it is a bit more than a month into this year-long commitment I have made to myself. I suppose it’s as good a time as ever to reflect on what has come of it so far. I. I have decided to organize the paintings into the 8 seasons of the pagan calendar, each…

  • Purslane and baby beet greens

    Purslane and baby beet greens

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    I thinned our baby beets and cleared much of the purslane, but grabbed some choice clusters to pack into our tacos later.

  • The Feels of Springtime

    The Feels of Springtime

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    There’s, like, eight feet of snow outside. We can’t even open the back door. I’ve been digging out the back door by harvesting snow to feed my carnivorous plants (they are fickle and don’t like city water). Meanwhile, INSIDE the apartment, it’s like some kind of freakshow blooming parade! An orchid that bloomed a couple weeks…

  • Ash Wednesday & pancakes

    Ash Wednesday & pancakes

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    Scallion Pancakes for Ash Wednesday?  Awww YEAH. What more a perfect way to bring in the season than allium? They are the quintessential representative of spring.  And I happened to have some sitting in a jar that needed to be used up. Do you know what else I had to use up? That’s right: sourdough…

  • It’s still snowing, but we’ve got sourdough, so we don’t care.

    It’s still snowing, but we’ve got sourdough, so we don’t care.

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    The past few weeks have been trying, to put it kindly.  I’ve decided to stop complaining about the weather, as there’s nothing about it that can be done.  So, fine.  We’ll just do a little bit of indoor stuff, like MAKE THE MOST AWESOME FOODS. I’ve been trying to perfect my sourdough. I’ve now baked…

  • All Signs Point

    All Signs Point

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    Oh. My. Stars. My friend, Petra, invited me to go with her, her husband and her sister to Niantic for their annual pilgrimage to the 30% off book sale at the Book Barn.  So first of all: The Book Barn. My first visit to The Book Barn was with my dear friend Eggie a few…

  • The Storm Has Passed

    The Storm Has Passed

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    Well, it is January, and we had a storm. It is New England, after all, and we’ve been pretty lucky with a reasonably warm winter thus far.  I heard the total accumulation was only 18″ or something, but some of our drifts are waist-high, as you can see here: Really, it’s so pretty, that I’m…

  • Cayenne Pepper Sauce

    Cayenne Pepper Sauce

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    A couple weeks ago I made a good batch of pepper sauce, which we’re still working on consuming. That batch was made out from peppers we found in the reduced-price produce aisle at the grocery store. They’re tasty, but not my absolute favorite flavor. I think Justin would agree that our favorite flavor is cayenne. It’s…

  • Milk Kefir Photo Op…

    Milk Kefir Photo Op…

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    A friend of mine posted a photo of her water kefir grains that she’s brewing in a swing-top wire bale Le Parfait jar. I keep my brewed kefir in a Le Parfait jar, and it’s so meta-perfect, that I thought I’d give it an opportunity to be as sexy as storing milk kefir can be:…

  • Ginger Ale

    Ginger Ale

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    We’ve poured our first batch of ginger ale, and it’s pretty exciting.  We made the wort out of ginger & sugar, then added lemon, vanilla and ginger bug when everything cooled. Because we keep our apartment cold by American standards (60F), we kept the ale on top of the stove so it could capture a little extra…

  • Fire Cider Experiment

    Fire Cider Experiment

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      So a few months ago – or maybe even a year – there was some kind of scuffle going around the interwebz about this Fire Cider business. My favorite local herbalist was in a twist over some company trying to copyright the name “Fire Cider,” which is an herbal remedy spanning way before copyrights…