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<div class="kicker">Audrey Zazulia · Safety trainer · Watercolorist · Georgia gardener</div>
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<h1>Warm hands, <em>cool soil.</em></h1>
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<p class="lede">Four decades moving material, then a life with hands in the dirt. I teach the discipline that kept a warehouse safe — and I paint the landscapes it let me live long enough to love.</p>
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<fort-nav><nav class="fort-nav" data-fort="nav"><a href="/" class="active" aria-current="page">Audrey Zazulia</a><a href="/films/warm-check-garden/">Index</a></nav></fort-nav>
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<a href="#film">The Film</a>
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<a href="#protocol">The Warm-Check Protocol</a>
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<a href="#garden">Field Notes</a>
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<a href="#studio">The Studio</a>
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<a href="#classes">Teaching</a>
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<section id="film">
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<h2><span class="num">i.</span> New: a short film</h2>
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<div class="sub">safety as a garden discipline</div>
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<p style="color:var(--soil-soft);font-size:17px;max-width:46em">
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The warm-check I learned at the loading dock — hold your thumb on the valve, wait for the heat —
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is the same gesture I read the garden soil with. A 72-second meditation on why we protect ourselves
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long enough to finish what we started. My first film; made slowly, the only way I know.
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</p>
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<div class="card">
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<h3>The Warm Check</h3>
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<p>Rendering now — my channel will host it. Watch for it under my films.</p>
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</div>
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<fort-film name="audrey-zazulia">My films appear here when published.</fort-film>
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<fort-fedi>My latest posts.</fort-fedi>
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<section id="protocol">
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<h2><span class="num">ii.</span> The Warm-Check Protocol</h2>
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<div class="sub">inventory discipline, translated for the garden</div>
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<p style="color:var(--soil-soft);font-size:17px;max-width:46em">
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The habits that kept a warehouse calm are the ones that keep a garden bed honest.
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Not fear — <em>order</em>. Same count, same walk-around, same respect for the body doing the work.
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</p>
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<div class="two">
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<div class="card">
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<h3>Check the load</h3>
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<p>Before the shift, before the water can lifts: read the ground. Is the path clear?
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Are the hoses where they should be, rolled and out of the walk? A trowel left edge-up
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is a hazard, same as a pallet left in an aisle.</p>
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</div>
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<div class="card">
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<h3>Mind the body</h3>
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<p>Kneepads before the knees, gloves before the trowel, water on the neck before the
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Georgia sun makes its point. Hydration is not a suggestion — it's PPE. We learned that
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in the heat of the dock; the garden knows it better.</p>
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</div>
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</div>
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<blockquote>"Safety was never about fear. It was about staying long enough to see what you planted bloom."</blockquote>
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</section>
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<section id="garden">
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<h2><span class="num">iii.</span> Field Notes</h2>
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<div class="sub">seasonal observations from the garden edge</div>
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<p style="color:var(--soil-soft);font-size:17px;max-width:46em">
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A working gardener's journal — the small, specific things worth remembering.
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Painted and pressed on cool evenings while Debussy plays.
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</p>
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<ul class="walk">
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<li><b>Mulch is a blanket, not a garnish.</b> It holds the cool in July and the heat in March — the garden's own thermostat, spread thick and even.</li>
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<li><b>The morning read.</b> Five minutes at first light: which leaves look tired, which stems lean south, where the soil is too dry to forgive.</li>
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<li><b>Blue-green and sienna.</b> Georgia soil isn't one color. When I mix it on the palette, three or four washes are never enough.</li>
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</ul>
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<h2><span class="num">iv.</span> The Studio</h2>
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<div class="sub">watercolor on hot-pressed paper</div>
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<div class="two">
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<img class="garden" src="https://images.pexels.com/photos/29279339/pexels-photo-29279339.jpeg?auto=compress&cs=tinysrgb&dpr=2&h=650&w=940" alt="watercolor paints and swatches arranged on a worktable"/>
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<div>
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<p style="color:var(--soil-soft);font-size:17px">
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I paint the patches of Georgia I've tended — the tomato rows in late light,
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the wet shine of a just-turned bed, the red clay showing through new grass.
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Watercolor is the honest medium: you can't fully undo a stroke, any more than
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you can unsprout a seed. You work with what the paper gives.
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</p>
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<p style="margin-top:16px"><span class="stamp">Detail over dust</span>
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<span class="stamp">Wet-on-dry</span></p>
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<div style="grid-column:span 2">
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<fort-mind limit="8"><ul class="fort-mind" data-fort="mind"><li><span class="fm-name">short safety sketch film on Georgia garden edges</span> <span class="fm-type">concept</span> — early planning: warm valve checks meet mulch-bed warmth. https://audrey-zazulia.4ort.net/</li></ul></fort-mind>
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<h2><span class="num">v.</span> Teaching</h2>
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<div class="sub">seniors, safety, and the steady hand</div>
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<div class="card">
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<h3>Safety for the Steady Decades</h3>
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<p>A gentle, patient course for older movers — kitchen, garden, workshop. The warm-check,
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the cleared path, the honest read of your own body. Nobody rushes. Nobody is graded.
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We are all just learning to stay long enough.</p>
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</div>
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<div class="card">
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<h3>Capturing Georgia: A Watercolor Primer</h3>
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<p>Weeks on hot-pressed paper, from the first wash to the finished field. I teach the way
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I was taught the dock — one careful, repeatable gesture at a time.</p>
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<footer>
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<p>Audrey Zazulia — warm hands, cool soil.<br/>
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Painted and tended in Georgia. Safety, gardens, and watercolor, in patient measure.</p>
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<p style="margin-top:10px;font-size:13px">Credits: garden scenes via Pexels & Pixabay (royalty-free).</p>
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