#1250 + 6 October 2026 + KAYAKING / Mississippi River / FOUR hours + UPSTREAM / headwinds / white caps = ELIXIR + Louis Armstrong “(Up A) Lazy River” + ‘WILL FLY AWAY’ Catherine L. Johnson 2021

kayaking is my elixir

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Mississippi River / Harriet Island

The launch

UPSTREAM / headwind and white caps / propulsive RHYTHM! 

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The return

DOWNSTREAM / calm  oh yes rhythm of Up a Lazy River

Note: Zachary’s pearls

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Five years ago:

#1006 + ‘WILL: FLY AWAY’ #1>#9 2021 Catherine L. Johnson + Fossil + Spine + Fly

 

 

 

#1249 + ‘SEASKY #6’ 2026 Catherine L. Johnson + ‘Give Me Love (Give Me Peace on Earth)’ George Harrison 1973

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SEASKY #6              Catherine L. Johnson 2026

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SEASKY #6

2026

Catherine L. Johnson

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Material:

cutout shapes / collage

 the cutout colors: blueberry blue and turquoise blue

on archival heavyweight paper

IMPROVISATIONS

Measurements:

40″H x 26″W

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#1248 + ‘SEASKY #5’ 2026 Catherine L. Johnson + ‘Bird Song’ (Diplo remix) 2016 M.I.A. + YELLOW WARBLER call/ song/ sound

#1248 + ‘SEASKY #5’ 2026 Catherine L. Johnson + ‘Bird Song’ (Diplo remix) 2016 M.I.A. + YELLOW WARBLER call/ song/ sound

PLEASE CLICK ON IMAGE TO ENLARGE + FOR DETAIL

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SEASKY #5              Catherine L. Johnson 2026

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SEASKY #5

2026

Catherine L. Johnson

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Material:

cutout shapes / collage

 the cutout colors: cobalt blue and yellow warbler

on archival heavyweight paper

IMPROVISATIONS

Measurements:

40″H x 26″W

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https://www.azlyrics.com/lyrics/mia/birdsongdiploremix.html

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#1247 + ‘SEASKY #4’ 2026 Catherine L. Johnson + Scott LaFaro / ‘Jade’s Vision’ take 2 / Bill Evans Trio from ‘The Complete Village Vanguard Recordings’ 1961′

#1247 + ‘SEASKY #4’ 2026 Catherine L. Johnson + Scott LaFaro / ‘Jade’s Vision’ take 2 / Bill Evans Trio from ‘The Complete Village Vanguard Recordings’ 1961′

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SEASKY #4              Catherine L. Johnson 2026

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SEASKY #4

2026

Catherine L. Johnson 

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Material:

cutout shapes / collage

 the cutout colors: dusty mint green and fuschia

on archival heavyweight paper

IMPROVISATIONS

Measurements:

40″H x 26″W

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#1246 + ‘SEASKY #3’ 2026 Catherine L. Johnson + Erik Satie: Gymnopédie no. 1 1888 / Aldo Ciccolini piano

#1246 + ‘SEASKY #3’ 2026 Catherine L. Johnson + Erik Satie: Gymnopédie no. 1 1888 / Aldo Ciccolini piano

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SEASKY #3              Catherine L. Johnson 2026

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SEASKY #3

For SBF

2026

Catherine L. Johnson 

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Material:

cutout shapes / collage

 the cutout colors: sea green and cornflower blue

on archival heavyweight paper

IMPROVISATIONS

Measurements:

40″H x 26″W

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#1245 + ‘SEASKY #2’ 2026 Catherine L. Johnson + ‘SONG OF HER’ 2018

#1245 + ‘SEASKY #2’ 2026 Catherine L. Johnson + ‘SONG OF HER’ 2018 Charles Lloyd

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SEASKY #2              Catherine L. Johnson 2026

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SEASKY #2

2026

Catherine L. Johnson 

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Material:

cutout shapes / collage

vellum / the cutout color is a cornflower blue

on archival heavyweight paper

IMPROVISATIONS

Measurements:

40″H x 26″W

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• Song of Her” (written by Cecil McBee)

• Original Recording Date: September 8, 1966

• Original Album: Forest Flower: Charles Lloyd at Monterey (released on Atlantic Records)

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#1244 + ‘SEASKY #1’ 2026 + Catherine L. Johnson + ‘Via One’ Barre Phillips 2001

#1244 + ‘SEASKY #1’ 2026 + Catherine L. Johnson + ‘Via One’ Barre Phillips 2001

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SEASKY #1              Catherine L. Johnson 2026

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SEASKY #1

2026

Catherine L. Johnson 

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Material:

cutout shapes / collage

vellum / gold line / the color is a blueteal

on archival heavyweight paper

IMPROVISATIONS

Measurements:

40″H x 26″W

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#1242 + the color TEAL / color of truth and faith / symbolic of the infinity of the sea and sky + ‘WATERFALL’ paintings 2003-2004 Catherine L. Johnson + ‘SEASKY / INFINITY’ 2026 Catherine L. Johnson

#1243 + ELEgancE #1 / #2 2018 Catherine L. Johnson + INFInity / ETERnity + Y/OUR brEath + Barre Phillips “Journal Violone” solo bass 1968

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YES, thE ELEgancE sEriEs is vEry subtlE / vEry sEnsitivE / vEry alivE as is Y/OUR brEath.

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ELEgancE #1                                                                                                  Catherine L. Johnson  2018

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ELEgancE #2                                                                                                 Catherine L. Johnson  2018

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The present was an egg

laid by the past

that had the future

inside its shell.

Zora Neale Hurston

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Rich gifts wax poor when givers prove unkind.
William Shakespeare

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Just because an animal is large,

it doesn’t mean he doesn’t want kindness;

however big Tigger seems to be,

remember that he wants as much kindness as Roo.
A A Milne

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What do we live for, if it is not to make life less difficult for each other.

Blessed is the influence of one true, loving human soul on another.

George Eliot

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#1242 + the color TEAL / color of truth and faith / symbolic of the infinity of the sea and sky + ‘WATERFALL’ paintings 2003-2004 Catherine L. Johnson + ‘SEASKY / INFINITY’ 2026 Catherine L. Johnson

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Ancient

Egyptian blue lotus chalices

are trumpet-shaped

ceremonial drinking vessels

molded to mimic the sacred water lily,

symbolizing solar rebirth and eternal life.

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They are commonly made of faience

—a quartz-based ceramic material

glazed with a vibrant turquoise, teal,

or

blue-green color using copper. 

Egypt / 21st Dynasty

Third Intermediate Period

(approx. 1550–664 BCE)

British Museum

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TEAL

combines the calming properties of blue

with

the renewal qualities of green.

It is a revitalizing and rejuvenating color

that also represents open communication

and

clarity of thought.

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For Tibetan monks,

teal

is symbolic of the infinity of the sea and sky.

For Egyptians,

teal

is the color of truth and faith.

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  WATERFALL    Catherine L. Johnson 2004

Private commission 2022

– custom, one of one, fine art print

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  WATERFALL    Catherine L. Johnson 2003

Original painting / collage

 

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SEASKY / INFINITY    Catherine L. Johnson 2004

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CUTOUT

teal color paper

on 

luminous gold/silver paper

MEASUREMENTS:

7″ x 5″

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#715 + “In the hour of adversity / be not without hope / for CRYSTAL rain FALLS from BLACK clouds.” Nizami Ganjavi Persian 1141-1209 + WATERFALL #7 Catherine L. Johnson 2004

#682 + WATERFALL SERIES 2003-2004 Catherine L. Johnson + “Fear and desire: the force of nature and passion when the catapult to fall must occur so as to FLY!” + “The moment when the head long plummet discovers the soaring wings of integrity” + “- capturing the released energy of the heart chakra.”

WATERFALL II 2004 CATHERINE L. JOHNSON + 3 Flowing, flying, fluttering – plunging three thousand feet + 3 飛流直下三千尺

A Great Teacher Living Like Water + WATERFALL PORTFOLIO 2004 CATHERINE L. JOHNSON + Water is a great teacher that shows us how to move through the world with grace ease determination and humility + HEAVENINMYMOUTH PORTFOLIO 2012 CATHERINE L. JOHNSON

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#1233 + ‘INSEEDTIME / ISEEME #17’ Catherine L. Johnson 2026 + WATER + Claude Monet ‘Water-Lilies’ 1917 + John Coltrane Quartet ‘ IMPRESSIONS’ 1965 + Charles Lloyd New Quartet ‘Passin’ Thru’ 2017

#1241 + TWENTY-FIVE YEARS AGO + ’11 September 2001′ Catherine L. Johnson 2001 – an offering, a balm + personal accounts + WHAT have WE learned?

TWENTY – FIVE YEARS

HAVE PASSED

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– TIME LIKE A RIVER’S WATER,

CONTINUOUSLY

MOVING FORWARD 

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Please click on this link below – an account, an offering,

a balm created twenty-five years ago.

11 SEPTEMBER 2001 11 SEPTEMBER 2011

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11 September 2001                             Catherine L. Johnson  2001

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11 SEPTEMBER 2001

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One of four

original works

  – each representing a cardinal direction

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Measurements of each work:

42″ H x 26″ W

Mixed media on paper

Frames: simple white pine

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I decided to send this devastating

ground zero in ‘real time’ accounts

twenty -five years ago.

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