November 18, 2021 Weekly Musings

Announcements:

The Ripples We Make Accepted Into ISEA's Online Exhibition

The Ripple's We Make has been selected for 2021 “Utterly Unfathomable and Powerfully Profound,” ISEA’s (International Society of Experimental Arts) second members-only online juried exhibition.

The exhibition can be viewed at: https://iseaart.smugmug.com/Annual-Exhibitions/Annual-Members-Only-Juried-Online-Exhibitions/UUPP2021/

Blogs:

Light Beam

Featured image: Butterscotch Light

While walking down the hallway this morning, I bent over to pick up a shiny something on the grey tile floor. It looked like a piece of clear tape. I realized that when I tried to pick it up that there was nothing there. It was a wonderful light beam! Our individual selves/souls/spirits are like that light beam, filled with wonderful white light, shiny, but illusive. Glorious light. Let your light shine today.

Interconnections

Featured image: Somehow We Are Connected

In my lifetime I have always been surrounded by woods, and waterways, plants and all things natural. Some have been wild and untamed and have challenged me, some have not. All of them have been reminders of my/our profound connection to all things natural, all things that I call the "yes, yes, yeses" of my experiences and wilderness adventures, and that connection to life. Each part of me has become a fluid connection to these things and my understanding of life and of my art.

There are "yes, yes, yeses" in my art. Sometimes they have been wild and untamed and have challenged me. All of them have been reminders of my profound connection to this earth and natural things. My art then, in turn, becomes the fluid connection between all things natural, me and another who connects to those relationships. What a blessing – this fluid interconnection!

Timelessness

Featured image: Rolling Stones

A feeling of timelessness happens to me when I sit on the shores of Lake Superior and look at the horizon where the big water and the big sky meet. It is a very comforting feeling of forever and of freedom.

Not Calculated

Featured image: Emerging

In many ways with my ever evolving journeys in life, I try to connect myself to all things “yes.” And, then I try to communicate these “yes-es” to others through my writing and art. Doing that is always wonderful and liberating. If I allowed my journeys to be solely in the service of productivity and efficiency where all my minutes of the day are calculated, then there would never be any time to waste and do things that aren’t worthwhile. So needless to say, my days and the days that make up my journeys in life are filled with both the calculated and the not so very worthwhile things.

I want to be able to look back at all of my journeys and find that I haven’t lost a precious moment or minute doing the "yes yes yes" things in my life. I want to be able to say about yesterday, and today and my tomorrows that I like living and being involved with the rhythms of rainfall, and thunderclaps and the tempos of the seasons. I want to be able to be involved with the moving sunrises, sunsets and the rhythm of the flicker, tap, tap, tapping as she looks for breakfast and calls to her mate. 

Alternative Environments

Featured image: Our Connections

My artwork depicts experiences into alternate environments. I play off organic and natural elements. Yet, at the same time I am abstracting these recognizable objects to help transport you into unique places of existence- unique places of existence that allow you to imagine and think differently about all things. I also try to evoke energy and self-recognition within each journey that is made by my work. I play off negative and positive spaces. At the same time, I maintain a balance between the two by using landscapes, horizons, boarders, trees, roots, tunnels, bridges or lines to help connect to the fantasy-like feeling of you imagination. My landscapes are meant to convey how we sometimes feel when we are connected, and disconnected, conflicted or caught in unusual situations that we need to push on to explore and find new meaning for our lives.

New Works:

Oak Leaves, 15x15

Pine Cones

Snow Globe, 16x16

Fall Bouquet