shared seeds

Many of our gardens are grown from shared seeds, planting memories of time and place. 

When I make these seed packet paintings I feel connected with my Mother. This one in particular, as she always had something red growing by her window or in her garden.

 Garden corner 4, encaustic, copper, seed packet, seeds on panels, 4x13in, copyright Jan Yates, 2014. 
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GMO

-still enjoying the assemblage of small odd shaped panels, embedding them with seeds and  their packets, and then layering with encaustic, oil, and cold wax.

I think it would be interesting to include Non-GMO seeds-the challenge would be in the finding.

Garden corner 3, encaustic, cold wax  on panels, 4x12in, copyright Jan Yates,  2014 

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a time to sew

Another from my annual Spring seed packet series.

 This time of year the garden shops display tantalizing racks of optimism-waxy packages of bright promise.

 Garden Corner 2, encaustic on panels, diptych, 4x16in, 2014   copyright Jan Yates

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