As a creative I listen for, look for and feel all the magic that surrounds me. I take...
Christine's Journal
Sometimes artists have muses, I am no exception. Muses are often their source of inspiration. Muses give the artist a sense of passion about something. My muses are words – and the concepts they conjure up for me. Words never cease to inspire me which is why I call myself a conceptual artist and why I write a blog and about beautiful moments in the day.
Aesthetic Moments: Balance II
Posted on July 02 2020
As a creative I listen for, look for and feel all the magic that surrounds me. I take...
Aesthetic Moments: Giving Balance to Our Culture
Posted on July 01 2020
Realize as a creative, you are giving balance to our culture. You are giving balance t...
Blog: Learning to Read
Posted on June 29 2020
I wonder if the ability to imagine is genetic or taught? Nature or nurture?
As a little girl my dad didn’t read me a book at bedtime but rather he would tell me a story, an imaginative story. Sometimes the story would go on for months – and sometimes he had me or my sister tell part of the story. These stories never followed a preplanned script – they were pure imagination.
Aesthetic Moments: Artists Dream
Posted on June 29 2020
How do artists dream and use our imagination? We create places for people to gather and...
Blog: Covid Positives
Posted on June 27 2020
Covid has changed the world. It has changed me. Has it changed you?
Covid has changed what I used to think was important. With this new perspective I find it remarkable what used to occupy my time and my mind. Now those things don’t seem so important anymore. The power and the time those things occupied are once again mine.
Aesthetic Moments: Saturday Sunrise
Posted on June 27 2020
Saturday Sunrise
sunrise serenely silentlymagnificent light shines through upwardVerid...
Aesthetic Moments: Lilies Blooming
Posted on June 26 2020
Lilies blooming
oranges, yellows
delicately intertwined
pinks blushing
jewels of purple...
Blog: Just Because
Posted on June 25 2020
I love giving flowers. I have always loved giving them and have always loved receiving them. Flowers represent something special. Flowers represent love.
Aesthetic Moments: Hummers
Posted on June 24 2020
Can’t miss them this morning – the
Hummers
are dive bombing my head.
As I listen ...
Aesthetic Moments: Balance
Posted on June 22 2020
Balance is always in flux and suited for change through imagination and creativity ...
Blog: Authenticity in Visual Art
Posted on June 22 2020
I remember taking an entire art history class on the murals created as a visual records of their times. These images can be moving, they can be popular, they can tell a story. But does that make them art?
Blog: Finding Love in Chaos aka Love is Enough
Posted on June 19 2020
It is hard to watch the news nowadays – there is so much happening, so much changing, so much upheaval. I heard a newscaster say “love is just not enough anymore”.
I did a whole series on love several years ago. Love has existed powerfully ever since Christ. I have always believed that love was enough. I have been challenged frequently with this belief – but in the end love always pulls me through.
Aesthetic Moments: Good morning
Posted on June 18 2020
Dappled light
Doves flirting
Woodland music
Sun rises
Good morning
Blog: Opening – aka Souls in a Can
Posted on June 18 2020
As many Wisconsinites often do, my family had beans and brats for dinner recently. I gazed at the can opener as the handle twisted round and round, opening the can, freeing the contents inside. A thought drifted into my mind about freedom – who has the power to open the... Essays
Aesthetic Moments: Music
Posted on June 17 2020
The music of nature
Is so different from
The music of an orchestra
The music o...
Blog: Natural vs Man Made
Posted on June 17 2020
Décor is usually associated with rugs, textiles, lighting fixtures – and includes wall décor. It is the things used to decorate a room. The goal of décor is harmony. The value of décor is appeal through manipulation and control of color and shape. Décor governs how we see things. Décor subordinates objects to congruous patterns. Décor uses easily recognizable representational images.
Wall décor is rarely creative.
Blog: What is your sense of life – aka How interconnections work naturally
Posted on June 16 2020
I am always pleased when a lover of the arts sees my work and describes my sense of life as playful and happy. When I hear these comments it tells me 1 – they recognize me in the work and, 2- they know what my sense of life is.
Blog: Capturing Movement
Posted on June 12 2020
“I saw the rainbows in my studio and I danced with them.”
Christine Alfery
When I paint I do not try to reconcile the conflict between chaos and order. I don’t seek to soften the hard edges of disorder and find a harmonious center. I don’t try to make things whole or monochromatic. Life is not that way - we become disillusioned when we try to make it something other than what it really is. Life is a bumpy, playful, and a marvelous ride if we don’t try to make it something it is not.