beautiful
…………………………………………….(night time) When I take this piece to DC – once it’s finished – do I want people to tell me, “It’s beautiful”? When I was in art school, way back when, the ultimate (unspoken) insult was to call someone’s work “beautiful”. It stood in for “nice” (i.e. boring), and meant it was trite, not […]
edges
I made the smallest adjustment to this area and it delighted me: I shifted the edges. Before I took the scissors to it, there was a straight line along the bottom. Straight. The message was of the edge of a piece of paper or drawing. But this hangs freely. I still echo that straight line […]
body
Do I ever notice this encasement I live inside? This thing that can produce ideas and get me from one place to another. My body. Yes, I exercise. And yes, Tai Chi and sometimes yoga. But yesterday I had the luxury of taking a class with Caryn McHose, this reknowned movement teacher that offers classes […]
with
I’m dog sitting little Otis. Here he is with my pooch, Rumi. They get along very well. In fact, when I have to leave for an hour or so, I know Otis will be fine. He’s with Rumi. And that’s my word of the day. With. I was reading a review of something that went […]
color
A close up. I now am not sure about my idea that was so thrilling yesterday. When I was “close up” to it, I was just pumped. And so full of why this was such a great idea, why hadn’t I thought of it/remembered it? I was working with my needle and thread, working right […]
impatient
Art can change the world… Additionally, the experience of art distracts from daily hardships and inspires people to imagine other ways of living that are less painful…Its experience proposes a more fulfilling life. After all, joy is an inalienable human right, and we in art believe in joy and life… – Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev, Istanbul, 2015 Yes. […]
3D
This is not working – I mean, my new idea is not working yet. But I want to share it anyway because I’m so excited about it. I realized that I was seeing my piece in 2D. What about the mountains behind the mountains? I’m getting started but these colors are not right: they are […]
silence
Silence when we let it exist it feeds our soul.~ Gordon Hempton In this piece of art that I am slowly creating, I use this method of working first on the areas where the color is moving, flowing from one area or intensity to another. My plan is to come back and later fill in […]
faith
This is another of my embroideries from years ago. Unfinished. But somehow that suits my message today. I feel like these people are all waiting with expectation that they will get somewhere. They will get there – they have faith. The opposite of faith is not doubt. The opposite is certainty. That’s a quote from […]
who’s in there with us?
From when I was a child, growing up riding horses, the only thing I wanted to draw was a horse. I’d work on a drawing and then show it to my father. He would look at it, explain the anatomy – how the hip bone was connected (information that was way over my head) and […]
