Erin K. Schmidt

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  • books
    • all books
    • birds of a feather >
      • As The Crow Flies
      • Dumped for a Stripper
      • fight or flight
      • Icare
      • sanctuary
      • the birds and the bees
      • the dovecote
      • wrecked
    • body language >
      • anamnesis
      • covfefe
      • hem/o
      • hoax
      • long blonde hair
      • THE END OF THE WASP SEASON
      • The Unfinished Blanket
      • tiny maps >
        • little canopies
    • forest through the trees >
      • day/night
      • house in the wood
      • remember me with affection
    • sheep's clothing >
      • 1954
      • buried in my memory
      • I remember how we met
      • winter stayed late
    • troubled water >
      • life is but a dream
      • loon lake >
        • about >
          • veiled muse
      • not this year
      • tea and water pipe >
        • hushed we met
      • Telling Time
      • waves
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not this year

The scroll book is housed inside a broken coconut.  Each side of the tapered scroll holds images of San José del Cabo and Cabo San Lucas, Mexico.  The photographs were taken during vacations there from years past.  The outside shows a brightly colored collage of precious memories, the inside reveals the sunrise over the Sea of Cortez overlain with text written in elegy lamenting the vacation that was planned, but will not happen this year.  This is the year that the novel coronavirus Covid-19 brought the world to a halt. 

This year we will wait for the world to heal.

Mexican coconut, inkjet printed Stratmore 130 gsm, coconut beads, leather twine.  2020