I am very excited to announce the launch of Weather-Eye!
Weather-Eye is a book of poems, drawings and paintings by two brothers from Long Island. James (the artist) and Peter (the poet) grew up on the south shore, spending their summers working at the family business and exploring the waters and beaches of the Great South Bay.
After many travels, education and varied pursuits, we have both returned to our native shores with renewed interest in this place and the personal resonance it holds for us.
This book is the result of our collaborative efforts to document, through our respective arts, the practice of a deepening awareness of the physical and metaphysical environments we grew up in.
This book will release in early summer and you can be apart of the project by pledging a donation to our Kickstarter page: Weather-Eye
Below is an excerpt from the book of Peter Vanderberg's poem Splice:
Splice
Father & three sons in a sailboat,
minds’ eyes in four directions
until drawn in to a rope turned line
by his word & the bay beneath us.
Difference between a knot & tangle
is the knot will hold & easily untie. Tangles
can't be trusted or undone. He began
to work the line. You should know
the bowline. I watched, waiting
my turn, his son turned father turned son.
One gesture looped & threaded
the free-end, like a card trick.
We all test the knot, eager to learn something
useful, something that proves itself, that lasts.
