The wedding took place on the top of Mount As- pen in Colorado. We took a gondola to get up there and I fogot to bring snow boots. The area was lined with heaters only one was working. We weren’t near it. The weather was perfect for a ski resort as sunset approached. The top of a moun- tain can get cold quickly, and it did. We had blan- kets and warm clothing, it was brisk. You could see the vista for miles in every direction. A curious
large bird flew overhead.The flowers were beyond anything I have ever seen, the hoopah was com- pletely covered in white flowers. I started to draw as the ceromony started. I drew the hoopah and it morphed into a scroll, a torah. I drew the bride and groom and thier immediate family, then the audience. I used a technique similar to soft focus where I made the bride and groom sharp and the audience gradually taper to abstraction. The idea
was to use the transition from abstraction to for- mality as if all the possibilities of life are refined into marriage. I tried to tease out some kind of mythology, some kind of spirt from the location. I choose The North Wind blowing hearts and I added a flying horse.
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