Making Our Way Home – 24×24 Thoughts on art… ART can decorate our homes. GOOD ART compliments our couches and our walls. We can live with good art…GREAT ART reflects our lives, our souls. It challenges us to think, makes us cry for joy or relief or compassion…Great art feeds us, without it our lives are […]
AND WHAT IS LOVE? There is possibly a gypsy living inside of me. And What is Love? – 36×30 – paper on board In the late 60’s and early 70’s, my 3-year old son Todd and I lived in our Volkswagen bus, which my carpenter friend remodeled for us. He built a storage box large enough
WHERE I WANT TO BE This is an image we used at a recent innovat8e conference in Franklin. There were 30+ participants, mostly professionals: Our exercise was to look at the painting for a few moments and write our impressions as if having fallen into the adventure of its imagery. Here are a few of the stories: —————————
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KISS THE CHEF Art is not about things. It is not even only about beauty, though of course art can be and often is beautiful. Art is about relationships. Everything I write, or paint, or listen to, or even taste for that matter finds it origin in human relationship. There would be no art without
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OUR SHARED MYSTERY – 12×12 Longing for more…more connection…..more Love…turning to Life….choosing to live….being thankful….sharing what we have been given….sharing what comfort we have. Knowing, beyond a shadow of a doubt that we are loved. Never deserving, only believing. This life is a mystery. We see through a glass darkly. Yes it is a mystery. It is our shared mystery.
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For a long time, now, I have had the idea of how cool it would be for artists to reflect one another in word and image and music. When we step out of competing with, and being intimidated by another’s work, we realize there is so much we can gain from working together. In that
KINDNESS (8×8/oil on canvas) The other day I left an upper cupboard open and ran right into it with my face. My eyelid was cut. The whole thing was a bit humbling and painful, not to mention the black eye which lingered awhile. All this brought back to me a memory from about age 4.
THANKFUL (8×8/oil on canvas) Sometimes there is no better word for life than ‘delicious’. This morning I have been listening to and dancing with Buddy Holly. I listened to Brené Brown’s Ted speech on vulnerability before the sun was up and before finishing my first cup of coffee. I had a laugh and a conversation
YES! AND YOUR NIGHTS TOO! (8×8/oil on canvas) While we are at this business of “living”, lets dance through our nights too. Let’s live in whatever understanding of joy we possess! Let’s dream large! Rest. Rejoice. Give. Believe it is true! Why not enjoy these moments? This is our life. Let’s live it well, being
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