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(Part 2 of 3) My garden's ancient spectrum, where all wildness is reassuringly remembered as common place color, spreads from the prism of the tiny jay's eye. Bouncing forever between states of threat, the blue-coated dancer and I wonder at what part of the world we might ever fit in to, then after the long silence we press ever ahead with only groundless faith in the larger unfolding beauty to carry us in what we call safety. #trailpaintings

(Part 1 of 3) My wolf's great great great great grandparents were expelled past the rusted and swollen curtain that is California's border a hundred years ago. Having been branded evil, she diminished in waiting for the human-people to see the power in patient wilderness, a settling into the responsible character we were always meant to become. The triumphant hunt is always celebrated by and necessarily after the long art of the watching wait - if only my boiling mind could understand this. #trailpaintings

Matt @deckro and I have been working together for ten years. I could not imagine a finer gentleman or a more genius soul to whittle away the hundreds of art-making hours with that we spend together, spinning magic. Follow our collective efforts at our new hub: @premiumartsltd and of course @premiumtattoooakland #heterohusband #getink

@deckro and I are showing as @premiumartsltd in a couple of weeks at @rawartists in #sanfrancisco - tickets are being sold for $22 at www.rawartists.org/premiumarts - for buying a ticket to this crazy big event, Matt and I will send you a print of his work and one of my own #trailpaintings - free shipping! A $125 value! Do it. come party with us. #cocktailattire

The First Summer Night - I love the nights when he stalks me: my summer ghost, my everything howl. Dark eyes in the dark mirror smile in the short night. We know that we will never catch each other unless we can follow orders quickly and find the midnight flowers before dawn. Running from and running to yield the same results, like a one-sided coin, like the happy merger of predator and prey. Tonight we dream of the bountiful hunt and we allow ourselves to enjoy that we can't tell if that jewel in the sky is the sun or the moon.

If I can better echo the deep song connecting whatever I think of as me to the forest, or to the natural force behind its living tapestry, how would my voice sound? Would it boom and crash with scientific pride, edging out uncertainty with sunlight and volume? Or might it only whisper to its maximized ends - a silver sliver of the moon, softly whistling secrets to the quiet birds and bugs at night? Conscious voice influences human truth and all of nature comes now to learn what exactly that is. #trailpaintings

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2016 Coastal Nat’l Monument Additions

CALIFORNIA; A Field Atlas

2016 Coastal Nat’l Monument Additions

What follows are the drafts I’ve been working on for the Bureau of Land Management, a series of commemorative, handpainted maps that describe the additions to the California Coastal National Monument, 2016. #fieldatlas #trailpaintings

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(Part 2 of 3) My garden's ancient spectrum, where all wildness is reassuringly remembered as common place color, spreads from the prism of the tiny jay's eye. Bouncing forever between states of threat, the blue-coated dancer and I wonder at what part of the world we might ever fit in to, then after the long silence we press ever ahead with only groundless faith in the larger unfolding beauty to carry us in what we call safety. #trailpaintings

(Part 1 of 3) My wolf's great great great great grandparents were expelled past the rusted and swollen curtain that is California's border a hundred years ago. Having been branded evil, she diminished in waiting for the human-people to see the power in patient wilderness, a settling into the responsible character we were always meant to become. The triumphant hunt is always celebrated by and necessarily after the long art of the watching wait - if only my boiling mind could understand this. #trailpaintings

Matt @deckro and I have been working together for ten years. I could not imagine a finer gentleman or a more genius soul to whittle away the hundreds of art-making hours with that we spend together, spinning magic. Follow our collective efforts at our new hub: @premiumartsltd and of course @premiumtattoooakland #heterohusband #getink

@deckro and I are showing as @premiumartsltd in a couple of weeks at @rawartists in #sanfrancisco - tickets are being sold for $22 at www.rawartists.org/premiumarts - for buying a ticket to this crazy big event, Matt and I will send you a print of his work and one of my own #trailpaintings - free shipping! A $125 value! Do it. come party with us. #cocktailattire

The First Summer Night - I love the nights when he stalks me: my summer ghost, my everything howl. Dark eyes in the dark mirror smile in the short night. We know that we will never catch each other unless we can follow orders quickly and find the midnight flowers before dawn. Running from and running to yield the same results, like a one-sided coin, like the happy merger of predator and prey. Tonight we dream of the bountiful hunt and we allow ourselves to enjoy that we can't tell if that jewel in the sky is the sun or the moon.

If I can better echo the deep song connecting whatever I think of as me to the forest, or to the natural force behind its living tapestry, how would my voice sound? Would it boom and crash with scientific pride, edging out uncertainty with sunlight and volume? Or might it only whisper to its maximized ends - a silver sliver of the moon, softly whistling secrets to the quiet birds and bugs at night? Conscious voice influences human truth and all of nature comes now to learn what exactly that is. #trailpaintings

Nesting season for three of the Redwood Coast's robin-sized, precious and endangered seabirds. #marbeledmurrelet #snowyplover #cassinsauklet #trailpaintings

The word forest had begun to climb in my
mind, out from its classical definition as a simple wooded region with a closed canopy. In the Anthropocene, the forest is becoming any expansive yet bordered region where the poetry of the natural world still holds its ancient covenant to the unity of all wild things. In the Anthropocene, the forest is characterized by its adolescence as the venerable trees and so many of their neighborly relations have been so recently spent by the humans that would steward only to exploit. In the Anthropocene, the forest is not any singular entity, but defined now everywhere by humanity and its sequestration from it. All the primeval world has retreated to the forest and yet it remains open - open and welcoming for your wonder; an original source for you to freely tap.

California Trail Painter summer pack, ready. Not that different than the spring pack, just that I get to ditch the sleeping bag and throw in some shorts. @indigoferajeans

The #trailpaintings I've been offering to clients who come in for my $200 promo @premiumtattoooakland have been growing in size - I like to offer options, and it feels like a true, substantive work of art the client gets to take home, as well as the tattoo of course. This one is for Casey @wandererstarot. Email me for appointments couoteandthunder@gmail.com

The birds gave me wilderness. I sat there quietly, saw that they were intrinsically made from the original, dancing fire and they opened me up to the broadest of all natural visions. My fingers, my wrists now imbued, work only to translate to the best of their clumsy ability, to again communicate the wonder of all-form in this true place. I crawl on my hands and knees back to the diamond perch where in perfect submission, I knew the great love. #trailpaintings

The rollout of #trailpaintings as tattoos is off to a huge start. I'm going to continue the promotion of $200 for both the tattoo and the original painting. Are you in the Bay Area? Email me with your idea and let's set up an appointment. Coyoteandthunder@gmail.com.

Art and science are similar in that they both, through their own devices, attempt to marry exacting descriptors with nor abstract, often distant connections, or meaning. Only by analyzing nature's large patterns are we led by metaphoric vehicles capable of transmitting the deepest truths, which always indicate interdependence and the unity of all networks. #trailpaintings

I am putting together the impressively difficult task of my super-ambitious book tour for the California Field Atlas, this autumn. I've reached out to some of my favorites already and still have many other to reach out to. I've been invited to present the work at a number of new locations and for that attention I am very thankful. Do you know where I should be? Please email me at coyoteandthunder@gmail.com and I look forward to seeing you on tour.

I just posted my recent #trailpaintings at www.coyoteandthunder.com. They are offered at discount with free domestic shipping, so if you find one that speaks to you, snatch it up. I'll be taking the show down next week. Thank you, Obi

The #trailpaintings pile and churn and I keep in front. I tackle the beast with something that feels like aggression while it is going on (tear it out, uncover it, it's mine!) A running hunt where at the end there is no injury, maybe only even a lonely sigh. When the air is right, the next exercise demands me to go at it immediately again and as before, I'm out of control and crushed in the waves - exactly where I was born and will always be.

Three ravens sing of us all in the new day, from the archaic visions (of nature as the old enemy and the kingdom of low animals) to the new welcoming. How the song surrounds and permeates us! Tentative inclusion to the storied processes of all non-sorrowful nature, that we may recognize the fight not as a combat, but a ritual dance. #trailpaintings

All the filtered prisms of the forest's million color wheels, through my dark pinholes, reveal more dancing shadows than they do objective reality: the silver sky bleeds down through the yellow and blue leaves, across hot shadows and gold water. All pure. All true. Conglomerated living systems, composed over a visually perceived array, exchange colors as if they were a currency with which to do so. The nature of the so-called object apprehended is defined aesthetically by its juxtaposition and its orientation.

What has always been, has always been inside an eternal loop or recurrence - all nature, all life. It is threatening to think of all existence as being not only non-miraculous but non-mysterious. Given time and order, as two functioning structures in this universe, the Darwinian process of self-replicating macros, accompanied by self-replicating clay crystals gradually honing their skills over billions of years logically and eloquently follows to how, created from next to nothing, the world we know and love came into existence. I have yet to find anything more compellingly beautiful. #trailpaintings

Deep blue song keeping me awake through the night; one long note carried up from the ocean to my mountain top. Magic soundings mapping the whole frenetic globe, this furious ball wrapped in potential, this dynamic world forever alive. Although extinction is the end of every species, the dreaming forms of a million other species to come into being over as many years, is the other end of the bitter and beautiful balance. #trailpaintings

Obi Kaufmann Art Archive

In Defense of the Western Wilderness…

Conservation Alliance
Ventana Wilderness Alliance
Condor Trail
Yuba River League
Los Padres Forest Watch
Pacific Crest Trail Assoc.
Klamath Siskiyou Wild
Yuba Salmon Now
Friends of the Inyo
Western Rivers
Wilderness Land Trust
Los Padres Forest Assoc.
Friends of the River
California Wilderness Project
The Wilderness Society

The Storytelling Sponsors…

The Storytelling Retailers…

The Storytelling Artists…

Jered Nelson, Pottery
Nathaniel Parsons, Carving
Claudio Martonffy, Architecture
Peter St. Lawrence, Ceramics
Crystal Morey, Sculpture
Alison Tharp, New Media
Derek Weisberg, Sculpture
Steelee Faltis, Illustration
Dave Higgins, Illustration
Julie Harleman, Proprietor
Kate Williams, Director
Chris Sewell, Proprietor
Chris Adamiak, Maker
Greg Hennes, Snake Oil Salesman
Mikael Kennedy, Photography
Jeff Thrope, Consultant
Alana Douvros, Designer/jewelry
Marisa Haskell, Designer/Jewelry
Josh Chen, Designer/Branding
Ali Golden, Designer/Clothing
August Varlack, Acupuncturist
David Polka, Graphic Design/Art
David Lyle, Paintings
Ciel Bergman, Paintings
Gus Elg, Audio Mastering
Rachel Craven, Textiles
Lauren Wolf, Designer/Jewelry
Eric Bowley, Studio Arts
Tom Bonamici, Ecological Arts
Merrick Rhodes, Photography
Skyler Greene, Producer
Nirav Patel, Photographer
Patrick Dunaway, Illustration
Matthew Decker, Tattoo
Kirby Stenger, Photography
Rod Hipskind, Art Director
Cory Jarman, Road Paintings
Drew Heffron, Art Director
John Casey, Illustration/Painting
Brody Leven, Adventure/Storytelling
Gale Straub, Storytelling/Photography
Yumiko Sakuma, Journalist
Kelly Ishikawa, Photography
Eric Kvatek, Photography
Frederick A. Bouchardy, Perfumer
Nicholas Weinstein, Herbalist
Brian Caraway, Paintings
Catherine Meng, Poetry
Lena & Matt Reynoso, Gallery Owners

The Storytelling Media…

MAKERS WORKSHOP
RAWRDENIM
A CONTINUOUS LEAN
MONOCLE
GRIST
CAMPTREND
HUCKBERRY
MOHAWK
RACKED
JACKTHREADS
ANCESTRY QUARTERLY
SELVEDGE RUN
DESERT & DENIM
CAPSULE SHOW
ECOCOLO JAPAN
ITS MY DARLIN’
SOLIFLORE NOTES
WILDERNESS COLLECTIVE
THE ATLAS MAGAZINE
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