Daily Archives: February 12, 2014

I believe the buck stops here: Falmouth.

Eliminating the original (2004) Greenup collage series (often skipped over in My Second Lyfe galleries), we continue to progress through the Art 10×10 at Rose Hill (2005), then Yale (2006) and Newton (also 2006) to Oblong (2007), which is also just outside of Jasper County like Greenup and not shown on this map. Then we finish out the 10×10 with Hidalgo (2008), Wheeler (2009), and Jasper (also 2009), with the Newton County seat subbing for Jasper County as a whole in this case. I thought the Jasper County collage resonance was over and done with. But last year I decided to name a new collage series Gila, continuing the process once more after a 4 year pause. This is not part of the 10×10, but an extension. I show this extension with the purple lines on the above map. From Gila quickly followed Latona and then Lis, part of the same 2012 flow. Then the 4 part Falmouth collage seemed to act as a capstone to what I started called the Gilatona Lis series, but seemed to not be an official series of its own. I still believe, now, the buck stops with Falmouth, then, and will not extend into other Jasper County, Illinois names like Bogota or Sam Parr (State Park) or Island Grove. Falmouth lies directly beneath Rose Hill, so it’s like the proverbial snake swallowing its own tail.

What will the new and brewing collage series be named, then? Otoe is an early choice, but that may change.

Another option is *Embarras*, named after the Embarras River which cuts through the *center* of the above highlighted towns and villages in Jasper County. Interesting.

blushing Embarras in relation to its river family.

Embarras, with midpoint in or very near northern Jasper County, connects that county and its collage systems to the outside. To Greenup. To Oblong and beyond. Perhaps the whole 10×10, the whole 10×10 extension in Gilatona-Lis, is part of Embarras.