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Daily Cluck

By Teresa Jordan on October 30, 2021 in Birds, Chickens, Monotype 0

Chickens are both so quotidian and so mysterious…

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Blue Bird of Bewilderment

By Teresa Jordan on October 29, 2021 in Birds, Chickens, Monotype 0

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Laying in the Dark

By Teresa Jordan on October 28, 2021 in Chickens, Monotype 0

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The Chicken that Laid the Golden Eggs…

By Teresa Jordan on October 27, 2021 in Chickens, Monotype 0

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Cloissoné Chicken II

By Teresa Jordan on October 26, 2021 in Chickens, Monotype 0

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Big Chicken

By Teresa Jordan on October 25, 2021 in Chickens, Monotype 0

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Red Chicken on the Run

By Teresa Jordan on October 24, 2021 in Chickens, Monotype, Uncategorized 0

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Why Did the Chicken Lay the Easter Egg?

By Teresa Jordan on October 23, 2021 in Chickens, Monotype 0

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Cloissoné Chicken

By Teresa Jordan on October 22, 2021 in Chickens, Monotype 0

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Wise Guys Redux

By Teresa Jordan on October 21, 2021 in Chickens, Monotype 0

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All Marie ever wanted in life was to work outside with horses and cattle and dogs. As a girl, she worked alongside her father and brother; when she married, she and her husband John Bell bought a neighboring ranch. Teresa wrote about Marie in both Cowgirls and Riding the White Horse Home. One of her stories–about women who rode through the country when she was a girl, breaking horses for pay–intrigued the novelist Molly Gloss, and served as the inspiration for her wonderful book, The Hearts of Horses.

The signature stamp Teresa uses on her prints is a Japanese hanko, or chop. For Westerners, a hanko is often designed with kanji – idiographic symbols – that represent the sounds of the syllables in the person’s last name. Because many words sound the same, the particular characters chosen have significance. When Teresa and her husband, Hal Cannon, visited Japan many years ago, they had the gift of staying with Kimono artists who generously selected kanji for “Jordan.” The top kanji translates as “clarity” or “purification,” and the bottom one represents “dawn” or “morning.” These kanji turned out to be auspicious, for more than a decade later Teresa began a daily painting practice with the hope of starting each day anew. Now she uses this beautiful hanko on her prints.