Sketchbook Project 2018-2019
This sketchbook, “Crows”, is my fifth submission to the Brooklyn Sketchbook Project. It is such an amazing community art project. If you don’t know about it, check it out for sure! Meadow and I have each made a different sketchbook to send in, every year, for the past five years. We work on our submissions for months! People from all over the world submit sketchbooks full of all kinds of different mediums and themes, some books go on a road trip in a big bus full of traveling sketchbooks, then they all return to the library where people can visit and view the books for free! It really is amazing! If you are in the NYC area and are visiting Brooklyn, this is a great place to go! Stop in for an hour or a few hours to pour over shelves and shelves and SHELVES full of amazing little self…
Liberty~Winter Earth Mama
“Nature does not ask permission. Blossom and birth whenever you feel like it.” ― Clarissa Pinkola Estés Liberty, a fierce earth mama, is about to birth her fifth baby! The cold did not stop her from braving this maternity shoot! She’s barefoot and fancy free, despite the snow. She showed off her amazing mama body with some nude shots inside, and then outside. The cold did not hold her back at all, she was amazing! Liberty was a super warrior Goddess as she posed nude and barefoot in the snow. Some of the images below contain nudity and show off the amazing strength of the female body. (but if that is not your thing, just kindly don’t scroll all the way down as they are at the bottom of this post) I have known Liberty for years, our kids all went to Two Coyotes together, running barefoot though the land, in all…
Monstera deliciosa Lumen Cyanotypes
I have a serious love affair with plants. Whenever Meadow or I are feeling down we either head over the the Smith Botanical Garden, into the woods, or to any number of amazing plant nurseries. Plants make people happy, that is a fact! With all the trips to the plant nursery, our plant family has grown and grown and has taken over our house! I love love love the look of the Monstera deliciosa plant leaves! They are called Swiss Cheese Plants for a reason! Some of their other common names are Fruit Salad Plant, Fruit Salad Plant and Monster Fruit because when grown in their natural habitat they produce edible fruit. But here in New England we are just lucky enough to be able to keep small versions of this interesting plant alive, but no fruit! Last weekend I took some of the leaves that had previously been pressing…
Wish You Were Here, 2018
The Wish You Were Here Project (virtual postcards from around the world) has completed it’s fifth year! I love this project so much, a group of woman photographers from all over our globe each contribute one photo a week showcasing their lives. The images are then curated and blogged once a week. The images all flow from one to another, little connections being made between each image. Each image it’s own postcard representing each photographer’s reality that week. Seasons change, moves are made, babies born, kids growing up and graduating from High School…. From Caleb’s birthday right down through a rainy New Years Eve, these are my 52 postcards representing my 2018! Binary Birthday Cake, Massachusetts. Week 1 Finding Warmth in the Greenhouse, Massachusetts. Week 2 Snowy Dog Walk, Massachusetts. Week 3 Me and Caleb at Mass MOCA, Massachusetts. Week 4 Dancer, Connecticut. Week 5 Snow Day Baking, Massachusetts. Week…
‘Tis The Season for cozy baking
‘Tis the season for baking! I love holiday traditions and Meadow loves making cookies! What are some of your families holiday traditions? What I love the most about any holiday is how we come together to do cozy things like craft and bake and sing, just generally be together in the same room doing similar cozy things. These cookies were made and wrapped and taken to a holiday party at one of Meadow’s friends homes. It was fun to then sit inside around a hearth fire with the other adults while the teenagers were outside around their own bonfire. We all chatted and laughed and talked while the kids jumped on a trampoline and played games and had a great time. I am not sure if we would pass inspection, but Totoro, the newest addition to our family, sure does love to help out, no matter the project. Photo shoot?…
The New England Peace Pagoda, Leverett MA
“Just as cucumbers grow from cucumber seeds and eggplants from eggplant seeds, the outcome and the cause is preached to be of the same nature according to the law of causation. Consequently (for a nation to renounce war thus) choosing to avert evil and do good will bring the desired result of protecting the true security of the land and the people. “ ~Most Venerable Nichidatsu Fujii Guruji The New England Peace Pagoda in Leverette MA is a special place. The first time I visited this beautiful site was when Meadow was a baby. We hiked up with Meadow in the backpack, toddler Caleb walking up the pine tree lined dirt path beside me. I loved it so much, that I then organized a weekly homeschool hike to the Peace Pagoda. We would meet other families in the parking lot and hike up the earthen path to the beautiful golden sculptures.…
Arts and Crafts and all that good stuff
I love photography, but if you know me, then you know that I am always busy with other crafts and fine art projects as well! I love to keep my hands busy creating, actually it’s a bit of a compulsion from when I was a tiny child, and I just can’t stop. If I am not making one thing, I am making another, I keep my Etsy Shop stocked with all of my other, ever changing, crafts! Painting rocks is a serious passion of mine! When it was first suggested to me by my mother I just couldn’t get my head around the concept. I LOVE rocks, we have rocks all over our house from various adventures and outings, and I had no idea why anyone would want to paint on them. They are already so beautiful! When we were moving from Eugene OR to the east coast, at our…
Return again to the river
What can I say? I love the rivers… but truly, I love this river the most. We found this little spot totally by accident about 7 or 8 years ago. We were looking to hike to a waterfall in Jamaica Vermont, but we got lost, and then the hike was too long, my kids were too little and too hot. Somehow we ended up driving down a long dirt road in search of a deep swimming hole the locals whispered about. We stopped here truly by accident, in need of a lunch break. And now it is one of my favorite places. It is always changing, the flow different with each visit. But it is also always the same, with the same rush of water, the same pounding in my chest, the same total cleansing of the soul, the body, the mind. This is not my first shoot here, and…
the cooperative project Seven Rainbows… Third and Fourth Trip Through The Rainbow
Lili Love and I have been working on cooperative photography projects for quite some time! We started our first project titled Feathered in February 2016! We have been working on Seven Rainbows for some time now. I hope you enjoy our paired images, we create our images from many many miles apart, but our images sit side by side. This project is really a labor of love, I found it so easy to photograph a feather over and over and over in different ways all year long, but finding colors can be tricky for me. I find our images much stronger when I see them together. I hope you do too! Below each diptych I have typed which image belongs to Phyllis Meredith Photography and which belongs to Lili Love Photography. Thank you for looking, and happy rainbow filled days to you all! (Trips 3 and 4 presented below) Seven Rainbow’s….…
Lilac Sunday at the Arnold Arboretum
Back in my days at Mass Art in Boston I lived in Jamaica Plain. I worked at Arborway Market, singing and dancing, behind the check out counter, while painting and photographing and creating Performance Art as a SIM major. The Arnold Arboretum of Harvard University was my heaven! I would go to walk around and see the trees, sit in the grass to read and draw. One big huge tree, at the top of the hill on the JP side, was my favorite, I would visit it at least weekly, summer through winter! We moved back to Boston and lived in Roslindale when I was pregnant. Caleb Julius was born in Boston. Again the Arboretum was my sanctuary. Before he was born, I would walk my big pregnant self, all the way from the Roslindale side through to Jamaica Plain for my midwife appointments. Once Caleb was born, we…