LOST AND FOUND ( Winter 2015) When your heart has been on a journey- with crashing waves, fiery heat, drenching rain, and shaking of the earth- and you survive- do you find the days following to move in slow motion- to carry with them a meaning not felt before? Do you find each moment to […]
(winter 2015) Nothing worth having Ever comes with a fight Gotta kick at the darkness Til it bleeds daylight Bruce Cockburn Sitting in the darkness might not be the most comfortable place to take residence. Yet, it has become a place I have become all too familiar with. It took being frightened to death that […]
“Suddenly you’re ripped into being alive. And life is pain, And life is suffering, And life is horror, But my god you’re alive And it’s spectacular.” Joseph Campbell Painter, Alice Neel, says “All experience is great, providing you live through it. If it kills you, you’ve gone too far.” You should keep on painting no […]
Photo by: Anthony Scarlati Anthony Scarlati walked out to the tree I call Grandmother to grab some photos of her broken, beautiful body .He asked me to sit with her so I could have an image to cherish once I’ve moved from this farm. She’s a grand tree who refuses to relinquish an ounce […]
When someone quotes the old poetic image about clouds gradually uncovering the moon, slowly loosen knot by knot the strings of your robe. Like this. RUMI Living as a woman in this magnificent physical expression, unique to me, yet universally symbolic of nurturance, sensuality, and sexuality, is made even more mysterious as I grow older […]
Sky Within Us Oh, not to be separated, Shut off from the starry dimensions By so thin a wall. What is within us If not intensified sky Traversed with birds And deep With winds of homecoming? – Rilke Night magic is real for me. It’s no secret to anyone who knows me that I’ll drop […]
August 13 ,2015 I was fervently urged to stop painting. With this one…to add no other stroke. I listened, then sat with it. Sometimes, there is no more to say. Then, it became provocative. Personal. Nima said it reminded her of this poem, The Return, and when I read it, I had nothing more to […]
August 13, 2015 The mind creates the abyss, the heart crosses it. –Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj At every moment of our lives, we all have one foot in a fairy tale and the other in the abyss. Paulo Coelho Emerging and Abyss were painted in tandem. I often paint two canvases simultaneously as they have a […]
I beg you, To have patience with everything Unresolved in your heart And try to love the questions themselves As if they were locked rooms Or books written in a very foreign language. Don’t search for the answers, Which could not be given to you now, Because you would not be able to live them. […]
