Order does not indicate rank, these are all excellent.
Time to settle, reorient, reboot … time to RESOLVE ...
Diving in, don’t expect to be “good” anytime soon, and don’t worry about it, just get wet. Experiment, muck around, explore, and get better each year without worrying about the months between. The good news is that immature and technically poor works can still be enormously gratifying ...
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An Art Missionary is anyone with a burning desire to foster interest and participation in the arts. I am an Art Missionary …
… Today’s youngsters desperately need a more genuine, authentic way of experiencing the world, and art practice is an avenue toward that personal center …
… Imagination is the root of art, so I want to share a letter I wrote this past March to my grandchildren, with the objective of cultivating poetic and artistic imagination …
… and in that instant of recognition, perception is reduced to symbolic awareness, and we look no farther into the details as our gaze shifts elsewhere. It is what I called in a June 17 post, that “cursory glance as life slips by” [CGALSB] ... and yet these overlooked details have the potential to transform mundane experience into elevated awareness and being ...
… These paintings embody personal meditations on and explorations of a vast, complex, and ever-changing feminine psycho/socio/sexual/emotional landscape for which we have no vocabulary. There simply is no grammar or lexicon for expressing personal mood and feeling of this sort: even the words “mood” and “feeling” become inadequate as the meditation/exploration deepens …
… What I admire most about her art is how it respects and commemorates the veterans without glorifying the wars ... how fully she reflects the solemn gravity of war and its sacrifice … It is not War Art, but War Veteran Art – a profound distinction that will not be lost upon the veterans it commemorates.
… Visualize some vacant storefronts (not hard to do): gaping black sores in the downtown cityscape, declining values, public aversion, downward spiral … But wait! That window, what is that in there today? Is that … could it be … ? Yes! There are paintings supported by easels … and whoa! Focused lighting at twilight, must be a timer-switch. How very cool, utter simplicity at practically no cost. And spectators …
