tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22903321608211520862024-03-18T14:49:40.541-07:00Art PropelledArtPropelledhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15853722164314994360noreply@blogger.comBlogger307125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2290332160821152086.post-37910106615174189322016-10-22T05:21:00.001-07:002016-10-26T07:55:52.176-07:00A MINDFUL MODE OF STILLNESS<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<b><span style="color: #a2c4c9;"><i>"What amazes me about landscape, landscape recalls you into a mindful mode of stillness, solitude, and silence where you can truly receive time." - John O'Donohue</i></span></b><br />
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<span style="color: #f9cb9c;"><b>We have returned from the Drakensberg feeling soothed and replenished. The first thing I did once the car was unpacked and we had enjoyed a cup of tea was clean my work table. Now that's a first! Quiet time has done me a lot of good if I'm feeling the need to get back to work so soon. </b></span><br />
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<span style="color: #f9cb9c;"><b>....as were the baboons. The pastures and hillsides were alive with them. Eating, sun bathing, grooming, chasing. They were not happy having a camera pointed at them.</b></span><br />
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<b style="color: #f9cb9c;">We experienced every season in one day. Even snow which melted the moment the sun came up so that we thought we had imagined it. Many storms, day and night but short and cleansing. The beauty of the landscape sparkling after rain caught my breath every time I stepped outside and walked on squelching earth to look at the lush farmlands.</b><br />
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<span style="color: #a2c4c9;"><b><i>"there is a certain shimmering essence that nearly breaks the heart" - Dianne Crumbaker</i></b></span><br />
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<span style="color: #a2c4c9;"><b><i>"I would like to step out of my heart and go walking beneath the enormous sky" - Rainer Maria Rilke</i></b></span><br />
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<span style="color: #f9cb9c;"><b>My friend Dianne Crumbaker has written a beautiful poem which I have quoted a few times in this post. I would love to share the whole poem with you.</b></span><br />
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<span style="color: #a2c4c9;"><b><i>AXIS MUNDI</i></b></span><br />
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<span style="color: #a2c4c9;"><b><i>The point at which heaven and earth meet.</i></b></span><br />
<span style="color: #a2c4c9;"><b><i>There are other definitions. But think about this one. </i></b></span><br />
<span style="color: #a2c4c9;"><b><i>Better yet, think of it this way:</i></b></span><br />
<span style="color: #a2c4c9;"><b><i>"A" point at which heaven and earth meet.</i></b></span><br />
<span style="color: #a2c4c9;"><b><i>There is a point at the base of a baby's neck where heaven meets</i></b></span><br />
<span style="color: #a2c4c9;"><b><i>earth.</i></b></span><br />
<span style="color: #a2c4c9;"><b><i>And, certainly,</i></b></span><br />
<span style="color: #a2c4c9;"><b><i>when fall moves into winter,</i></b></span><br />
<span style="color: #a2c4c9;"><b><i>in the late afternoon light filtering through not-quite-bare</i></b></span><br />
<span style="color: #a2c4c9;"><b><i>branches,</i></b></span><br />
<span style="color: #a2c4c9;"><b><i>there is a certain shimmering essence that nearly breaks the </i></b></span><br />
<span style="color: #a2c4c9;"><b><i>heart.</i></b></span><br />
<span style="color: #a2c4c9;"><b><i>Consider the point at which,</i></b></span><br />
<span style="color: #a2c4c9;"><b><i>lying on your back,</i></b></span><br />
<span style="color: #a2c4c9;"><b><i>you look up into a blue sky and, in a moment of grace, imagine a</i></b></span><br />
<span style="color: #a2c4c9;"><b><i>worthwhile tomorrow.</i></b></span><br />
<span style="color: #a2c4c9;"><b><i>Or when an unexpected wind sweeps around a corner and brings</i></b></span><br />
<span style="color: #a2c4c9;"><b><i>with it a hint of some distant unknown sea</i></b></span><br />
<span style="color: #a2c4c9;"><b><i>Maroon and gray and gold strata on a rocky headland</i></b></span><br />
<span style="color: #a2c4c9;"><b><i>above a green-gray sea.</i></b></span><br />
<span style="color: #a2c4c9;"><b><i>Tea in a special cup.</i></b></span><br />
<span style="color: #a2c4c9;"><b><i>Points at which heaven and earth meet.</i></b></span><br />
<span style="color: #a2c4c9;"><b><i>A string of points, connected, make a line.</i></b></span><br />
<span style="color: #a2c4c9;"><b><i>A line can be followed, to a destination,</i></b></span><br />
<span style="color: #a2c4c9;"><b><i>can draw us in.</i></b></span><br />
<span style="color: #a2c4c9;"><b><i>Axis mundi.</i></b></span><br />
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<span style="color: #a2c4c9;"><b><i><a href="http://ten-minutetake.blogspot.co.za/2016/01/axis-mundi.html">- Dianne Crumbaker</a></i></b></span><br />
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<span style="color: #a2c4c9;"><b><br /></b></span>ArtPropelledhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15853722164314994360noreply@blogger.com16tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2290332160821152086.post-82457451217762156302016-09-15T00:55:00.001-07:002016-09-16T07:39:48.767-07:00I WILL KEEP BROKEN THINGS<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="color: #cccccc; font-size: x-small;"><b>These fragments of a tile were once part of a highly decorated floor at Chertsey Abbey, Surrey. Pavements of decorated ceramic tiles were a medieval innovation. They were used to add richness and splendour to great churches initially but they were subsequently used in secular contexts, including castles and royal residences. <a href="http://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O131675/tile-unknown/">Click</a></b></span><br />
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<span style="color: #f9cb9c;"><b>In the early years of my marriage I always threw broken china away because I wanted everything to be perfect. Over the years I've grown to love cracked and broken things. My marriage is in tact (in case you wondered:-) and I have drawers and bowls full of fragments from china, glass, wood, shells and other natural gatherings. </b></span><br />
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<b><span style="color: #cccccc; font-size: x-small;">Ancient Shards by Christina Wiese. See website <a href="http://www.christinawiese.at/">here</a></span></b><br />
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<b><span style="color: #f9cb9c;">I love this poem about broken things by Alice Walker.</span></b><br />
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<b><span style="color: #9fc5e8;"><i>I will keep broken</i></span></b><br />
<b><span style="color: #9fc5e8;"><i>things:</i></span></b><br />
<b><span style="color: #9fc5e8;"><i>the big clay pot</i></span></b><br />
<b><span style="color: #9fc5e8;"><i>with raised iguanas</i></span></b><br />
<b><span style="color: #9fc5e8;"><i>chasing their</i></span></b><br />
<b><span style="color: #9fc5e8;"><i>tails; two</i></span></b><br />
<b><span style="color: #9fc5e8;"><i>of their wise</i></span></b><br />
<b><span style="color: #9fc5e8;"><i>heads sheared off;</i></span></b><br />
<b><span style="color: #9fc5e8;"><i>I will keep broken things: </i></span></b><br />
<b><span style="color: #9fc5e8;"><i>the old slave market basket brought to </i></span></b><b><span style="color: #9fc5e8;"><i>my door by Mississippi a jagged</i></span></b><br />
<b><span style="color: #9fc5e8;"><i>hole gouged</i></span></b><br />
<b><span style="color: #9fc5e8;"><i>in it's sturdy dark</i></span></b><br />
<b><span style="color: #9fc5e8;"><i>oak side.</i></span></b><br />
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<b><span style="color: #9fc5e8;"><i>I will keep broken things:</i></span></b><br />
<b><span style="color: #9fc5e8;"><i>The memory of</i></span></b><br />
<b><span style="color: #9fc5e8;"><i>those long delicious night swims with you;</i></span></b><br />
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<b><span style="color: #9fc5e8;"><i>I will keep broken things:</i></span></b><br />
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<b><span style="color: #9fc5e8;"><i>In my house</i></span></b><br />
<b><span style="color: #9fc5e8;"><i>there remains an honored shelf</i></span></b><br />
<b><span style="color: #9fc5e8;"><i>on which i will keep broken things.</i></span></b><br />
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<b><span style="color: #9fc5e8;"><i>Their beauty is</i></span></b><br />
<b><span style="color: #9fc5e8;"><i>they need not ever be "fixed."</i></span></b><br />
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<b><span style="color: #9fc5e8;"><i>I will keep your wild</i></span></b><br />
<b><span style="color: #9fc5e8;"><i>free laughter though it is now missing its</i></span></b><br />
<b><span style="color: #9fc5e8;"><i>reassuring and</i></span></b><br />
<b><span style="color: #9fc5e8;"><i>graceful hinge.</i></span></b><br />
<b><span style="color: #9fc5e8;"><i>I will keep broken things:</i></span></b><br />
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<b><span style="color: #9fc5e8;"><i>Thank you</i></span></b><br />
<b><span style="color: #9fc5e8;"><i>So much!</i></span></b><br />
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<b><span style="color: #9fc5e8;"><i>I will keep broken things.</i></span></b><br />
<b><span style="color: #9fc5e8;"><i>I will keep you:</i></span></b><br />
<b><span style="color: #9fc5e8;"><i>pilgrim of sorrow.</i></span></b><br />
<b><span style="color: #9fc5e8;"><i>I will keep myself.</i></span></b><br />
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<b><span style="color: #9fc5e8;"><i>- Alice Walker, "I will keep broken things"</i></span></b><br />
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<b style="color: #cccccc; font-size: small;"><i>Newly completed Healing Goddess (next to Nigerian helmet mask) by Robyn Gordon</i></b><br />
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<span style="color: #9fc5e8;"><b><i>"Our work as artists is courageous and scary. There is no brief that comes along with it, no problem solving that's given as a task....An artist's work is almost entirely inquiry based and self-regulated. It is a fragile process of teaching oneself to work alone, and focusing on how to hone your quirky creative obsessions so that they eventually become so oddly specific that they can only be our own." - Teresita Fernandez</i></b></span><br />
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<b style="color: #f9cb9c;">Since I've just completed carving my healing goddess I thought I would share with those interested about what initially inspired me to carve her. The new carving is a late addition to a series of Healing Goddesses I carved several years ago.</b><br />
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<span style="color: #cccccc; font-size: x-small;"><b><i>From an old series several years ago.</i></b></span><br />
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<span style="color: #f9cb9c;"><b>A primitive Songye figure or Nkisi (from the Democratic Republic of the Congo) started my thought process about doing a series.</b></span><br />
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<b style="color: #f9cb9c;">I think the vessel has a feel-good quality about it as opposed to the slightly uneasy feeling I get from the Nkisi. </b><br />
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<b><span style="color: #cccccc; font-size: x-small;"><i>Nestled amidst the wood shavings on my worktable .... a favourite place to photograph my carvings.</i></span></b><br />
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<span style="color: #f9cb9c;"><b>It was important to me that my Healing Goddesses exuded a feel good energy and I can only hope that I've achieved that. It was certainly therapeutic to carve them.</b></span><br />
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<span style="color: #cccccc; font-size: x-small;"><b><i>A collection of West African Islamic Teaching Tablets used by students in West Africa. <a href="https://www.aspireauctions.com/#!/catalog/313/1360/lot/47368/">Click</a></i></b></span><br />
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<span style="color: #9fc5e8;"><b><i>"I collect these objects to learn from them. In some moments these things are going to teach me something. For me, this is like a library. These are my books." - Jose Bedia, Art News</i></b></span><br />
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<b><span style="color: #f9cb9c;">Though I don't own these beautiful artifacts </span></b><br />
<b><span style="color: #f9cb9c;">I can gaze at the images, </span></b><br />
<b><span style="color: #f9cb9c;">feeling the history and stories within them</span></b><br />
<b><span style="color: #f9cb9c;">.... feeling some satisfaction that they exist somewhere </span></b><br />
<b><span style="color: #f9cb9c;">and hoping that they are being preserved </span></b><br />
<b><span style="color: #f9cb9c;">so that others can share in the wonder. </span></b><br />
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<i style="color: #cccccc; font-size: small; font-weight: bold;">This ancient book is part of a collection of 70 tiny books, their lead pages bound with wire. They could unlock some of the secrets of the earliest days of Christianity. Found in a cave in Jordan. Click <a href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-1371290/70-metal-books-Jordan-cave-change-view-Biblical-history.html">here</a></i><br />
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<span style="color: #cccccc; font-size: x-small;"><b><i>Arrowhead, Tanzania <a href="http://www.horniman.ac.uk/collections/browse-our-collections/object/103350/page/10">click</a></i></b></span><br />
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<span style="color: #cccccc; font-size: x-small;"><b><i>Antique Afghani bone Spindle Whorls. <a href="http://www.ebay.com/sch/sis.html?_nkw=Ancient+Bone+Stone+Spindle+Whorl+Collection+Afganistan">click</a></i></b></span><br />
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<span style="color: #cccccc; font-size: x-small;"><b><i>Bamana Granary Door, Mali <a href="https://new.liveauctioneers.com/item/24670904_bamana-wood-granary-door-ex-carlos-museum">Click</a></i></b></span><br />
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<b><span style="color: #9fc5e8;"><i>"Certain objects are difficult to tame yet it is their very strangeness that perpetuates my curiosity and their appeal in my eyes." - Unknown Collector in Tribal Art</i></span></b><br />
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<b><span style="color: #9fc5e8;"><i>"In age, variety and beauty, art from Africa is second to none. Africa had traditions of abstract art, performance art, installation art and conceptual art centuries before the West ever dreamed up the names." - Holland Cotter, The New York Times</i></span></b>ArtPropelledhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15853722164314994360noreply@blogger.com28tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2290332160821152086.post-74267752547715156092016-07-11T06:25:00.000-07:002016-07-12T00:02:15.203-07:00CREATING A CLEARING<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="color: #999999; font-size: x-small;"><b><i>Deena Haynes. <a href="https://www.facebook.com/deena.haynes.1?fref=ts">Click</a></i></b></span><br />
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<b><span style="color: #f9cb9c;">The sense of peace we achieved on holiday is already seeping away. My chiropractor who has to deal with my tense shoulders suggested I find something that instills peace closer to home since we can't go racing off to the Wild Coast (a 7 hours journey away), every time I feel tense. I'm taking the advise of Brene Brown and trying to create a clearing within the busyness of life.</span></b><br />
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<b><span style="color: #cccccc; font-size: x-small;"><i>Jessica Rimondi. <a href="http://www.saatchiart.com/account/artworks/635355">Click</a></i></span></b><br />
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<b style="color: #f9cb9c;">Recently I discovered the work of Mary Anne Aytoun-Ellis, an artist who is inspired by nature and the surrounding countryside of the Sussex Downs. </b><br />
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<b><i><span style="color: #9fc5e8;">"Every soul innately yearns for stillness, for space, a garden where we can till, sow, reap, and rest, and by doing so come to a deeper sense of self and our place in the universe. Silence is not an absence but a presence. Not an emptiness but repletion. A filling up." - Anne C LeClaire</span></i></b><br />
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<span style="color: #f9cb9c;"><b>I enjoyed Anne LeClaire's book, Listening Below The Noise: The Transformative Power of Silence. It "offers readers the possibility of finding grace and peace in the natural world". Find it on Amazon <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Listening-Below-Noise-Transformative-Silence/dp/0061353361/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1468242155&sr=1-1&keywords=Anne+D+LeClaire">here</a></b></span><br />
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<span style="color: #9fc5e8;"><b><i>"Silence is something more than just a pause; it is that enchanted place where space is cleared and time is stayed and the horizon itself expands. In silence, we often say, we can hear ourselves think; but what is truer to say is that in silence we can hear ourselves not think, and so sink below our selves into a place far deeper than mere thought allows..." - Pico Iyer</i></b></span><br />
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<span style="color: #f9cb9c;"><b>I have started reading The Art of Stillness: Adventures in Going Nowhere by Pico Iyer. Find it on Amazon <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Art-Stillness-Adventures-Going-Nowhere/dp/1476784728/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1468242440&sr=1-1&keywords=pico+iyer">here</a></b></span><br />
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<b><i><span style="color: #cccccc; font-size: x-small;">The imposing Mennesket ved Havet (Men at Sea), Denmark. Photo by Marco Franchino. <a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/little_frank/6893446973/in/photostream">Click</a></span></i></b><br />
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<span style="color: #a2c4c9;"><b><i>"Be secluded in your secret heart-house, that bowl of silence..." - Rumi</i></b></span>ArtPropelledhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15853722164314994360noreply@blogger.com37tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2290332160821152086.post-63443875673386256492016-07-01T06:49:00.001-07:002016-07-02T00:49:33.150-07:00THE SOFT UNFOLDING OF WAVES<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="color: #f9cb9c;"><b>We have returned from three glorious weeks at the Wild Coast, feeling replenished and at peace with the world. </b></span><br />
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<b style="color: #f9cb9c;">Most days were soft and meditative, filled with winter sunshine and the hushed unfolding of waves on the sand.</b><br />
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<b style="color: #f9cb9c;"><b>I learned a new word from <a href="https://itscrowtime.wordpress.com/">Mo</a> yesterday.</b></b><br />
<b><span style="color: #9fc5e8;"><i style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="http://unusedwords.com/2012/07/04/apricity/">Apricity:</a> </i><i>The word apricity represents a simple and familiar yet a very specific phenomenon - the sun's warmth on a cold winter's day. (Click on the word to read further)</i></span></b><br />
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<b><span style="color: #cccccc; font-size: x-small;"><i>I walked around this bull several times, clicking my camera and he remained unperturbed. Just a twitch of tail and ear.</i></span></b><br />
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<b><span style="color: #cccccc; font-size: x-small;"><i>I can't imagine our holidays without the resident dogs. They add much joy and tail wagging to our days. </i></span></b><br />
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<span style="color: #f9cb9c;"><b>The sea poems of Pablo Neruda also seem appropriate here. Follow the <a href="https://thevalueofsparrows.com/2014/04/02/poetry-poems-from-on-the-blue-shore-of-silence-by-pablo-neruda/">link</a> if you wish to read a few more.</b></span><br />
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<span style="color: #9fc5e8;"><b><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span style="font-size: large;">The Sea </span>by Pablo Neruda</b></span></b></span></div>
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<b><span style="color: #9fc5e8;"><i>I need the sea because it teaches me.</i></span></b><br />
<b><span style="color: #9fc5e8;"><i>I don't know if I learn music or awareness,</i></span></b><br />
<b><span style="color: #9fc5e8;"><i>if it's a single wave or it's existence,</i></span></b><br />
<b><span style="color: #9fc5e8;"><i>or only it's harsh voice or it's shining</i></span></b><br />
<b><span style="color: #9fc5e8;"><i>suggestion of fishes and ships.</i></span></b><br />
<b><span style="color: #9fc5e8;"><i>The fact is that until I fall asleep,</i></span></b><br />
<b><span style="color: #9fc5e8;"><i>in some magnetic way I move in</i></span></b><br />
<b><span style="color: #9fc5e8;"><i>the university of the waves.</i></span></b><br />
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<b><span style="color: #9fc5e8;"><i>It's not simply the shells crunched</i></span></b><br />
<b><span style="color: #9fc5e8;"><i>as if some shivering planet</i></span></b><br />
<b><span style="color: #9fc5e8;"><i>were giving signs of it's gradual death;</i></span></b><br />
<b><span style="color: #9fc5e8;"><i>no, I reconstruct the day out of a fragment,</i></span></b><br />
<b><span style="color: #9fc5e8;"><i>the stalactite from the silver of salt,</i></span></b><br />
<b><span style="color: #9fc5e8;"><i>and the great god out of a spoonful.</i></span></b><br />
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<b><span style="color: #9fc5e8;"><i>What it taught me before, I keep. It's air</i></span></b><br />
<b><span style="color: #9fc5e8;"><i>ceaseless wind, water and sand.</i></span></b><br />
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<b><span style="color: #9fc5e8;"><i>It seems a small thing for a young man,</i></span></b><br />
<b><span style="color: #9fc5e8;"><i>to have come here to live with his own fire,</i></span></b><br />
<b><span style="color: #9fc5e8;"><i>nevertheless, the pulse that rose</i></span></b><br />
<b><span style="color: #9fc5e8;"><i>and fell in it's abyss,</i></span></b><br />
<b><span style="color: #9fc5e8;"><i>the crackling of the blue cold,</i></span></b><br />
<b><span style="color: #9fc5e8;"><i>the gradual wearing away of the star,</i></span></b><br />
<b><span style="color: #9fc5e8;"><i>the soft unfolding of the wave</i></span></b><br />
<b><span style="color: #9fc5e8;"><i>squandering snow with it's foam,</i></span></b><br />
<b><span style="color: #9fc5e8;"><i>the quiet power out there, sure</i></span></b><br />
<b><span style="color: #9fc5e8;"><i>as a stone shrine in the depths,</i></span></b><br />
<b><span style="color: #9fc5e8;"><i>replaced my world in which were growing</i></span></b><br />
<b><span style="color: #9fc5e8;"><i>stubborn sorrow, gathering oblivion,</i></span></b><br />
<b><span style="color: #9fc5e8;"><i>and my life changed suddenly:</i></span></b><br />
<b><span style="color: #9fc5e8;"><i>as I became part of it's movement.</i></span></b><br />
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<span style="color: #cccccc; font-size: x-small;"><b><i>Need I say, this weathered plank and broken shell returned home with me</i></b></span><br />
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<span style="color: #9fc5e8;"><b><i>"Among the things the sea throws up,</i></b></span><br />
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<span style="color: #9fc5e8;"><b><i>violet claws of crabs,</i></b></span><br />
<span style="color: #9fc5e8;"><b><i>little skulls of dead fish,</i></b></span><br />
<span style="color: #9fc5e8;"><b><i>smooth syllables of wood,</i></b></span><br />
<span style="color: #9fc5e8;"><b><i>small countries of mother-of-pearl;</i></b></span><br />
<span style="color: #9fc5e8;"><b><i>let us look for what the sea undid</i></b></span><br />
<span style="color: #9fc5e8;"><b><i>insistently, carelessly,</i></b></span><br />
<span style="color: #9fc5e8;"><b><i>what it broke up and abandoned,</i></b></span><br />
<span style="color: #9fc5e8;"><b><i>and left behind us."</i></b></span><br />
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<span style="color: #cccccc; font-size: x-small;"><b><i>A misty end to the day</i></b></span><br />
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<span style="color: #ffe599;"><b>The SILVER SUMMER show begins tomorrow at FILLINGDON FINE ART in PIDDINGTON, UK. Details <a href="http://fillingdon.com/">here</a>. I have a few pieces on the show, including the tall story panel below.</b></span><br />
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<span style="color: #9fc5e8;"><b><i>"Stop measuring days by degree of productivity and start experiencing them by degrees of presence." - Alan Watts</i></b></span><br />
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<b style="color: #f9cb9c;">Stephanie Dalton's new painting inspired me today. It reminds me of riverine krantzes, pebble beaches, driftwood and rock pools. </b><br />
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<b><span style="color: #cccccc; font-size: x-small;"><i><a href="http://www.daltonprojects.com/">Stephanie Dalton. Click to go to Stephanie's website</a></i></span></b><br />
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<b style="color: #f9cb9c;">I enjoyed Stephanie's artist statement ..... and wish I had written it myself.</b><br />
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<b><span style="color: #a2c4c9;"><i>"It is the quieter side of the world that inspires my abstract works, the feelings that arise through a connection with the natural world. Colorful patterns in stone, aged patinas on walls, and fragmented light on the horizon are some natural touchstones for me." - Stephanie Dalton</i></span></b><br />
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<b><i><span style="color: #cccccc; font-size: x-small;">Small wild basket by Robyn Gordon</span></i></b><br />
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<span style="color: #f9cb9c;"><b>My own work is often inspired by my connection with nature. Long walks and foraging on beaches set the mood for beginning new carvings. Once I was inspired by clumps of sea reeds that were washed up on the beach after heavy storms and decided there and then to sit down and create my first wild basket for the few small treasures I had found. It is a very rudimentary basket but for the time I spent creating it I was totally absorbed.</b></span><br />
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<span style="color: #cccccc; font-size: x-small;"><i><a href="http://robyngordon.weebly.com/"><b>"Beach </b><b>Walk" a work in progress by Robyn Gordon</b></a></i></span><br />
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<span style="color: #f9cb9c;"><b>Beach walks have inspired many of my carvings. </b></span><br />
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<span style="color: #cccccc; font-size: x-small;"><i><a href="http://hannahlamb.co.uk/"><b>A piece from the River to Wood series by</b> <b>Hannah Lamb</b></a></i></span><br />
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<b><span style="color: #f9cb9c;">Hannah Lamb's </span><i><span style="color: #a2c4c9;">" creative practice focuses on walking and making as methods of reconnecting with the world immediately around us. Personal, emotional responses to environment and surface are recorded through stitch, print, photography and construction, piecing together fragments of place and time."</span></i></b><br />
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<span style="color: #f9cb9c;"><b>Hannah's <a href="http://hannahlamb.co.uk/River_to_Wood.html#6">River to Wood series</a> explores the landscape of the River Aire. </b></span><br />
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<b><span style="color: #9fc5e8;"><i>"Short journeys, walking from home to Hirst Wood, collecting marks, prints and found materials." - Hannah Lamb</i></span></b><br />
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<span style="color: #f9cb9c;"><b>Talking about wild baskets and inspiration, I found some delightful images on <a href="https://www.instagram.com/mrandmrscharlie/">mrandmrscharlie's</a> Instagram blog.</b></span><br />
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<br />ArtPropelledhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15853722164314994360noreply@blogger.com48tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2290332160821152086.post-50823845760193822172016-05-28T07:23:00.000-07:002016-06-02T02:46:05.551-07:00A SMIDGEN OF MY SOUL<br />
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<span style="color: #a2c4c9;"><i>"<b>Creativity is the way I share my soul with the world" - Brene Brown</b></i></span><br />
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<span style="color: #f9cb9c;"><b>A lot has happened in the year I have taken off from my blog. The busier I became with commissions and life, the more I found I had less time to compile blog posts. As mentioned in a previous post I decided to simplify by posting on Face Book instead but I have missed Art Propelled! For years it was my little sanctuary where I have made wonderful friends, many of whom are not on Face Book. </b></span><br />
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<b style="color: #f9cb9c;"> I have decided to continue my compilations on Face Book but I would like to post here on Art Propelled a few times a month as well.</b><br />
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<span style="color: #f9cb9c;"><b>This piece, "Ancestral Voices" has revived my love for creating art. I began waking in the mornings feeling excited to get out to my work bench to start carving. I purchased a new work bench made of fragrant cedar wood. The moment I set up work for the day the scent of the cedar seems to trigger my creative flow. For years I have worked outside in the courtyard where the heat just about flattened me so I made another change and moved my work area onto the veranda. Though I still do the messy work out in the courtyard I do most of my carving in the shade of the veranda. It has made a huge difference!</b></span><br />
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<b><span style="color: #a2c4c9;"><i>"I am listening to a deeper way. Suddenly all my ancestors are behind me. Be still, they say. Watch and listen. You are the result of the love of thousands." - Linda Hogan</i></span></b><br />
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<span style="color: #f9cb9c;"><b>In 2014 Roxanne Evans Stout invited me to create a new sculpture for her book, <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Storytelling-Collage-Techniques-Layering-Texture/dp/1440340501/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1464443643&sr=1-1&keywords=Story+Telling+with+Collage">Storytelling with Collage</a> . The book is out! And what a beautiful book it is!</b></span><br />
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<span style="color: #f9cb9c;"><b>This is the piece I created for the book. It is made of fragments from my early totems, previously banished to the back of a dark cupboard. There were parts of the old totems that I loved, so I cut these parts off to use in the assemblage.</b></span><br />
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<span style="color: #f9cb9c;"><b>"Spirit House" was inspired by the Sepik spirit houses in Papua New Guinea, as well as the "house of the hogan" in Mali. A hogan is a Dogon spiritual leader whose house serves as a conduit for spirits to drift through while communicating with him. I was amused by the idea of a mobile spirit house that could fly or sail.... or drive over a bumpy road in Africa.</b></span><br />
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<br />ArtPropelledhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15853722164314994360noreply@blogger.com45tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2290332160821152086.post-59610549197469091722016-03-08T20:20:00.001-08:002016-06-02T03:21:09.630-07:00ART PROPELLED REINVENTED<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="color: #f9cb9c;"><b>THANK YOU to all my faithful followers who have supported me here over the years and for all the inquiring emails and messages wondering if all is well. All is well! Life has got busier however and I've tried to find an easier way to blog that doesn't take up quite so much of time. For that reason, I've decided to reinvent Art Propelled on Face Book (<a href="http://www.facebook.com/Art-Propelled-447409348789494/">here</a>). I will post my art compilations as well as my own work there if you are interested. Some people don't like Face Book but for the time being it is all I can manage. I do hope I will meet up with you there because I do miss you all.</b></span><br />
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<span style="color: #cccccc; font-size: x-small;"><b><i>Art Compilation including work by <a href="http://www.tereningallery.com/terenin/">Alexey Terenin</a>, <a href="http://www.paulbalmer.com/">Paul Balmer</a>, <a href="http://www.overbergstudio.co.za/">Cathy Brennon</a>, <a href="http://deborahbell.everard-read.co.za/johannesburg/?m=1">Deborah Bell</a> and <a href="http://anniecoesstudio.weebly.com/">Annie Coe</a></i></b></span><br />
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<span style="color: #a2c4c9;"><b><span style="font-size: x-small;">"Strandloper III" by Robyn Gordon</span></b></span><br />
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<span style="color: #f9cb9c;"><b>The daffodils are out just in time for the opening of the "Primary Palette"exhibition at <a href="http://fillingdon.com/">Fillingdon Fine Art</a>. I'm delighted to have 3 pieces in this exhibition including the piece, Strandloper III, above.</b></span><br />
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<b><span style="color: #a2c4c9;"><i>The meaning of strandloper ....</i></span></b><br />
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<b><span style="color: #a2c4c9;"><i>1. a member of a Koisan people who lived on the southern shores of southern Africa from prehistoric times until the second millennium AD.</i></span></b><br />
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<span style="color: #f9cb9c;"><b>Wishing you all a </b></span><br />
<span style="color: #f9cb9c;"><b>MERRY CHRISTMAS!</b></span><br />
<span style="color: #f9cb9c;"><b>and to those who don't celebrate Christmas</b></span><br />
<span style="color: #f9cb9c;"><b>HAPPY HOLIDAYS!</b></span><br />
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<b><i><span style="color: #fce5cd;">Paintings by <a href="http://markelfinearts.com/artist/Josette_Urso/works/list/">Josette Urso</a></span></i></b><br />
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<span style="color: #d0e0e3;">"It came without ribbons. It came without tags. It came without packages, boxes or bags. And he puzzled and puzzled 'til his puzzler was sore. Then the Grinch thought of something, doesn't come from a store. What if Christmas, perhaps, means a little something more." - Dr Seuss, How the Grinch Stole Christmas!</span>ArtPropelledhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15853722164314994360noreply@blogger.com51tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2290332160821152086.post-66239252302333487962014-11-07T04:43:00.000-08:002014-12-03T04:04:36.035-08:00EXHIBITION AT FILLINGDON<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="color: #f6b26b;"><b>The "Richly Wrapped" exhibition is on at Fillingdon Art Gallery, High Wycombe, UK until the 13th December. I received an email from Debs Digby to say that Oshun, the last of my totems sold this week.</b></span><br />
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<span style="color: #f6b26b;"><b>"Oshun" is a Yoruban Goddess, who encompasses a great variety of things, including love, sensuality, sexuality, fertility, abundance and diplomacy. She is widely loved as she heals the sick and has an amazing strength within her to bring people together as one. Oshun has a warrior aspect especially when protecting women and children. She is also known as 'Laketi', 'she who has ears', because of how quickly and effectively she answers prayers.</b></span><br />
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<b style="color: #f6b26b;">To read the rest of the article follow <a href="http://fillingdon.com/gordon-sells/">this link</a></b><br />
<br />ArtPropelledhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15853722164314994360noreply@blogger.com23tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2290332160821152086.post-39932651674376829152014-10-20T04:53:00.000-07:002014-10-24T00:58:47.302-07:00WALKING<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="color: #f9cb9c;"><b>I love to walk in nature and I especially love to walk alone. In South Africa .... or where I live anyway .... there are not many places one can do so safely. At the wild coast I walk alone for miles and as long as I keep the fishermen in sight (even just a dot on the horizon), I feel safe. It's a time that I unwind completely with not a worry in the world. </b></span><br />
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<b><span style="color: #9fc5e8;"><i>"It's when I'm walking that I come closest to an affection for myself." - Shawna Lemay</i></span></b><br />
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<b style="color: #f9cb9c;">During the build up to my daughter's wedding we promised ourselves a healthy walking holiday at the wild coast once everything quietened down. Unfortunately that never happened because our fox terrier was badly savaged by our bull terrier. Her pelt was almost ripped right off her body resulting in an air pocket between flesh and fur. It's been over a month that her little body has been battling against the infection she developed under her skin but today I can finally say she has turned a corner in her recovery.</b><br />
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<span style="color: #f9cb9c;"><b>During this time of watching over her, whilst she fought for her life, my thoughts have taken me to our favourite beach walks for solace. </b></span><br />
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<span style="color: #f9cb9c;"><b>I found a few quotes on Shawna Lemay's blog that sum up why I find these walks such a balm to my spirit ......</b></span><br />
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<b><span style="color: #9fc5e8;"><i>"There is an element of repetition in the act of walking where you can forget. And there is a tiredness. A peacefulness. I think that when you are really alone you have a fragility. The feelings are more intense. You have more of a feeling of the eternity of things." - Frederic Gros</i></span></b><br />
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<b><span style="color: #f9cb9c;">I loved <a href="http://calmthings.blogspot.com/2014/07/an-affection-for-yourself.html"> this post</a> on Shawna's blog. </span></b><br />
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<b><span style="color: #f9cb9c;">One can walk for days on a wild coast beach and never see a soul other than cattle and goats and perhaps the occasional herdsman with his dog.</span></b><br />
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<b><span style="color: #f9cb9c;">For me, it's a walking meditation</span></b><br />
<b><span style="color: #f9cb9c;">kicking up water in the shallows for miles</span></b><br />
<b><span style="color: #f9cb9c;">dreaming of the totems I will carve</span></b><br />
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<b><span style="color: #f9cb9c;"> Catching fish for lunch every day makes one feel healthier</span></b><br />
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<b><span style="color: #9fc5e8;"><i>"To find the universal elements enough; to find the air and the water exhilarating; to be refreshed by a morning walk or an evening saunter.... to be thrilled by the stars at night; to be elated over a bird's nest or a wildflower in spring - these are some of the rewards of the simple life." - John Burroughs</i></span></b><br />
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<span style="color: #9fc5e8;"><i><b>"The kind of dog you have will change the perfume of your walking. The degree to which your dog stops to sniff and mark territory, the pace you keep ...... " - Shawna Lemay</b></i></span><br />
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<span style="color: #9fc5e8;"><i><b>"Walking is important to my practice, a way to begin. It opens the route between the external world and the inner world of the studio. On my ritual paths, I take notice of changes that occur -- daily and seasonally -- recording what attracts my attention, 'navigating' my way through time." - Kim Kopp</b></i></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><b><i><a href="http://pallant.org.uk/exhibitions1/past-exhibitions1/2012/main-galleries/david-dawson-working-with-lucian-freud">Lucian Freud with fox cub. Photograph by David Dawson, Freud's studio assistant. See more here.</a></i></b></span><br />
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<span style="color: #f9cb9c;"><b>Having just celebrated our 39th wedding anniversary I decided to dedicate a post to my dear husband who I fondly referred to as M.A. Fox, throughout our courting days. There is a story behind his nickname.... of course.</b></span><br />
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<b style="color: #f9cb9c; font-size: small;"><i><a href="http://www.etsy.com/ca/shop/krokoart?section_id=12474863">Fox Hunt by Ken Roko. See Etsy Shop, here.</a></i></b><br />
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<span style="color: #f9cb9c;"><b>One of the poems we learned by heart at school was John Masefield's, Reynard's Last Run, a poem about fox hunting which I found quite upsetting. When M, a complete stranger, sat down next to my desk during the first week of my first job (I was 18 and he was 28) he was not to know that I disliked the poem. He proceeded to recite one of the many verses of Reynard the Fox to me. If it hadn't been for his spectacular heart-fluttering grin and the fact that I was intrigued by this stranger's unusual pick-up line I would have turned away in embarrassment. The office secretary had warned me that a "playboy" had seen me waiting for my interview a month earlier and that he would be back to meet me when I started work. I worked in Town Planning on the 12th floor and he worked in Staff Resources on the 3rd. He waited a few days for me to settle in before introducing himself and returned daily to recite a few more lines from the poem as a prelude to conversation. </b></span><br />
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<b><span style="color: #f9cb9c; font-size: x-small;"><i><a href="http://www.artandinfluence.com/2013/03/rien-poortvliet.html">Rien Poortvliet</a> <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Gnomes-Wil-Nuygen/dp/B000O2RSBS/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1404630835&sr=8-2&keywords=gnomes+book">(Remember the book Gnomes?)</a></i></span></b><br />
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<b><span style="color: #f9cb9c;">Many of these quotes have become part of our lives. What I didn't realize then was the poem had 339 verses. At school we had studied a portion of the poem which ended on a question mark. Had the fox reached safety? It was highly unlikely but I was relieved to discover that the fox had in fact survived and as the years have gone by we have read and re-read all 339 verses and many of the lines have become my favourites too.</span></b><br />
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<span style="color: #a2c4c9;"><b><i>The air blew rank with the taint of fox:</i></b></span><br />
<span style="color: #a2c4c9;"><b><i>The yews gave way to a greener space</i></b></span><br />
<span style="color: #a2c4c9;"><b><i>Of great stones strewn in a grassy place.</i></b></span><br />
<span style="color: #a2c4c9;"><b><i>And there was his earth at a great grey shoulder</i></b></span><br />
<span style="color: #a2c4c9;"><b><i>Sunk in the ground, of a granite boulder</i></b></span><br />
<span style="color: #a2c4c9;"><b><i>A dry deep burrow with rocky roof,</i></b></span><br />
<span style="color: #a2c4c9;"><b><i>Proof against crowbars, terrier-proof, </i></b></span><br />
<span style="color: #a2c4c9;"><b><i>Life to the dying, rest for bones.</i></b></span><br />
<span style="color: #a2c4c9;"><b><i>The earth was stopped; it was filled with stones.</i></b></span><br />
<span style="color: #a2c4c9;"><b><i>Then, for a moment, his courage failed.</i></b></span><br />
<span style="color: #a2c4c9;"><b><i>His eyes looked up as his body quailed,</i></b></span><br />
<span style="color: #a2c4c9;"><b><i>Then the coming of death, which all things dread,</i></b></span><br />
<span style="color: #a2c4c9;"><b><i>Made him run for the wood ahead.</i></b></span><br />
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<span style="color: #a2c4c9; font-size: x-small;"><b><i>- Reynard the Fox by John Masefield. </i></b></span><br />
<span style="color: #a2c4c9; font-size: x-small;"><b><i>See whole poem and info </i></b></span><b style="color: #a2c4c9; font-size: small;"><i><a href="http://archive.org/stream/reynardfox00mase/reynardfox00mase_djvu.txt">here</a></i></b><br />
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<b style="color: #a2c4c9; font-size: small;"><i><a href="http://elisabethhigginsoconnor.net/home.html">Textile sculpture by Elisabeth Higgens O'Connor . Click here for website</a></i></b><br />
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<span style="color: #f9cb9c; font-size: x-small;"><b><i><a href="http://www.woodwardgallery.net/exhibitions/ex-street_up.html">Robert Janz. See more here</a></i></b></span><br />
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<b style="color: #a2c4c9; font-size: small;"><i><a href="http://www.ericasalcedo.com/">Erica Salcedo. Website here</a> <a href="http://ericasalcedoillustration.blogspot.com/">and blog here</a></i></b><br />
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<span style="color: #f9cb9c;"><b>The name STRANDLOPER is an Afrikaans word meaning "beach walker". It is a term for San-derived people who lived by hunting and gathering along the sea shores of Southern Africa from prehistoric times until the second millennium AD. The term has been extended to refer to present day beach combers.</b></span><br />
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<span style="color: #f9cb9c;"><b>While we were on holiday in the eastern cape we came across many middens. One of them was particularly old and high. It formed a bank covered with grass but a landslide had ripped the bank open to reveal layer upon layer of shells at eye level. </b></span><b style="color: #f9cb9c;">I did a little research and came across <a href="http://www.southafrica.net/za/en/articles/entry/article-southafrica.net-strandloper-middens-port-elizabeth">this</a> post about Strandloper middens.</b><br />
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<b><span style="color: #9fc5e8;"><i>"... these piles of shells are often thousands of years old, and represent the last signs left by the Strandloper people, who belonged to the larger communities of either San or the Khoikhoi.... "</i></span></b><br />
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<b><span style="color: #9fc5e8;"><i>"The women would find some place in the dunes that was protected from the wind, and transform it into the family kitchen. They would shuck the shells and often prepare the food here as well. Pottery shards found at the midden sites indicate items of Stone Age crockery." - Chris Marais</i></span></b><br />
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<b><span style="color: #9fc5e8;"><i><br /></i></span></b><b style="color: #f9cb9c;">After our holiday I was inspired to carve a Strandloper to remind me of the blissful days spent gathering pebbles and driftwood on wild beaches.</b><br />
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<b><span style="color: #f9cb9c;">Having been inspired by Billy Collins and an artist who loves hats I couldn't resist blogging about the two of them. The artist is John Caple. </span></b><br />
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<b><span style="color: #f9cb9c;">I'm captivated by his mysterious paintings. There's a stillness about them that appeals to me.</span></b><br />
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<b><span style="color: #f9cb9c;">Mary Miers wrote a charming article about him <a href="http://www.jmlondon.com/wp-content/uploads/country-life.pdf">here</a>. She interviewed him in his sitting room, darkened by half-pulled curtains and lit by candles. This and the fact that he paints at night in the lamplight made me think of the Billy Collins poem about Goya who fashioned a hat with candles around the brim to wear when painting at night.</span></b><br />
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<span style="color: #cccccc; font-size: x-small;"><b><i>Photo from the 1999 film Goya en Burdeos</i></b></span><br />
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<b><span style="color: #9fc5e8;">CANDLE HAT by Billy Collins</span></b><br />
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<b><span style="color: #9fc5e8;">In most self-portraits it is the face that dominates:</span></b><br />
<b><span style="color: #9fc5e8;">Cezanne is a pair of eyes swimming in brushstrokes,</span></b><br />
<b><span style="color: #9fc5e8;">Van Gogh stares out of a halo of swirling darkness,</span></b><br />
<b><span style="color: #9fc5e8;">Rembrant looks relieved as if he were taking a breather</span></b><br />
<b><span style="color: #9fc5e8;">from painting The Blinding of Sampson.</span></b><br />
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<b><span style="color: #9fc5e8;">But in this one Goya stands well back from the mirror</span></b><br />
<b><span style="color: #9fc5e8;">and is seen posed in the clutter of his studio</span></b><br />
<b><span style="color: #9fc5e8;">addressing a canvas tilted back on a tall easel.</span></b><br />
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<b><span style="color: #9fc5e8;">He appears to be smiling out at us as if he knew</span></b><br />
<b><span style="color: #9fc5e8;">we would be amused by the extraordinary hat on his head</span></b><br />
<b><span style="color: #9fc5e8;">which is fitted around the brim with candle holders,</span></b><br />
<b><span style="color: #9fc5e8;">a device that allowed him to work at night.</span></b><br />
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<b><span style="color: #9fc5e8;">You can only wonder what it would be like</span></b><br />
<b><span style="color: #9fc5e8;">to be wearing such a chandelier on your head</span></b><br />
<b><span style="color: #9fc5e8;">as if you were a walking dining room or concert hall.</span></b><br />
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<b><span style="color: #9fc5e8;">But once you see this hat there is no need to read</span></b><br />
<b><span style="color: #9fc5e8;">any biography of Goya or to memorize his dates.</span></b><br />
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<b><span style="color: #9fc5e8;">To understand Goya you only have to imagine him</span></b><br />
<b><span style="color: #9fc5e8;">lighting the candles one by one, then placing</span></b><br />
<b><span style="color: #9fc5e8;">the hat on his head, ready for a night of work.</span></b><br />
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<b><span style="color: #9fc5e8;">Imagine him surprising his wife with his new invention,</span></b><br />
<b><span style="color: #9fc5e8;">he laughing like a birthday cake when she saw the glow.</span></b><br />
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<b><span style="color: #9fc5e8;">Imagine him flickering through the rooms of his house</span></b><br />
<b><span style="color: #9fc5e8;">with all the shadows flying across the walls.</span></b><br />
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<b><span style="color: #9fc5e8;">Imagine a lost traveler knocking on his door</span></b><br />
<b><span style="color: #9fc5e8;">one dark night in the hill country of Spain.</span></b><br />
<b><span style="color: #9fc5e8;">"Come in," he would say, "I was painting myself",</span></b><br />
<b><span style="color: #9fc5e8;">as he stood in the doorway holding up the wand of a brush,</span></b><br />
<b><span style="color: #9fc5e8;">illuminated in the blaze of his famous candle hat.</span></b><br />
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<b style="color: #9fc5e8;"><i>Oh my hat ~ An expression of extreme emotion, used by those who retain the presence of mind to avoid causing offence by saying "Oh my God". - <a href="http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Oh+my+hat!">Urban Dictionary</a></i></b>ArtPropelledhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15853722164314994360noreply@blogger.com34tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2290332160821152086.post-62259591149649749462014-06-05T06:06:00.000-07:002015-11-09T05:35:40.244-08:00FILLINGDON FINE ART<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<b><span style="color: #f9cb9c;">The present exhibition @</span></b><br />
<b><span style="color: #f9cb9c;">FILLINGDON FINE ART</span></b><br />
<b><span style="color: #f9cb9c;">Fillingdon Farm, Piddington, High Wicombe</span></b><br />
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<b><span style="color: #f9cb9c;">SUMMER SELECTION 2014</span></b><br />
<b><span style="color: #f9cb9c;">opened on 31st May</span></b><br />
<b><span style="color: #f9cb9c;">and continues through to</span></b><br />
<b><span style="color: #f9cb9c;">28th June</span></b><br />
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<b><span style="color: #f9cb9c;">The 300 year old beamed barn provides a modern yet historical setting for paintings and ceramics, whilst the sculptures look striking against the backdrop of the rolling Chiltern Hills of Buckinghamshire.</span></b><br />
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<b><span style="color: #f9cb9c;">Meet Debs Digby, charming owner of Fillingdon Fine Art. I was lucky enough to meet Debs this year during her annual visit to Africa. She breezed in to our home like a breath of fresh air and by the time she breezed out again I was totally under her spell. Debs takes great pride in personally meeting all the artists to discuss their art and what inspires them. </span></b><br />
<b><span style="color: #f9cb9c;"><i><a href="http://fillingdon.com/">Click for website here</a></i></span></b><br />
<b><span style="color: #f9cb9c;"><br /></span></b>ArtPropelledhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15853722164314994360noreply@blogger.com37tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2290332160821152086.post-28292486708963709262014-05-24T07:12:00.000-07:002017-07-09T23:11:20.621-07:00EVERYTHING SHINES IN THE MORNING LIGHT<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="color: #f9cb9c;"><b>An idyllic week at the wild coast</b></span><br />
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<span style="color: #f9cb9c;"><b>We had Long Beach to our selves every day</b></span><br />
<span style="color: #f9cb9c;"><b>Not another soul to be seen</b></span><br />
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<span style="color: #f9cb9c;"><b>Hours of walking, fishing and foraging</b></span><br />
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<span style="color: #f9cb9c;"><b>I'm drawn to the broken shells</b></span><br />
<span style="color: #f9cb9c;"><b>especially the black turbans </b></span><br />
<span style="color: #f9cb9c;"><b>which peel back to reveal spirals of rust</b></span><br />
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<span style="color: #9fc5e8;"><b>BREAKAGE by Mary Oliver</b></span><br />
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<span style="color: #9fc5e8;"><b>I go down to the edge of the sea.</b></span><br />
<span style="color: #9fc5e8;"><b>How everything shines in the morning light!</b></span><br />
<span style="color: #9fc5e8;"><b>The cusp of the whelk,</b></span><br />
<span style="color: #9fc5e8;"><b>the broken cupboard of clam,</b></span><br />
<span style="color: #9fc5e8;"><b>the opened, blue mussels,</b></span><br />
<span style="color: #9fc5e8;"><b>moon snails, pale pink and scarred --</b></span><br />
<span style="color: #9fc5e8;"><b>and nothing at all whole or shut, but battered, split,</b></span><br />
<span style="color: #9fc5e8;"><b>dropped by the gulls onto the gray rocks and all the moisture</b></span><br />
<span style="color: #9fc5e8;"><b>gone.</b></span><br />
<span style="color: #9fc5e8;"><b>It's like a schoolhouse</b></span><br />
<span style="color: #9fc5e8;"><b>of little words,</b></span><br />
<span style="color: #9fc5e8;"><b>thousands of words.</b></span><br />
<span style="color: #9fc5e8;"><b>First you figure out what each one means by itself,</b></span><br />
<span style="color: #9fc5e8;"><b>the jingle, the periwinkle, the scallop</b></span><br />
<span style="color: #9fc5e8;"><b>full of moonlight.</b></span><br />
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<span style="color: #9fc5e8;"><b>Then you begin, slowly, to read the whole story.</b></span><br />
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<b style="color: #f9cb9c;">Our room had a little garret above it</b><br />
<span style="color: #f9cb9c;"><b>which we named the eagle's aerie</b></span><br />
<span style="color: #f9cb9c;"><b>We did a lot of holiday reading there</b></span><br />
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<b style="color: #f9cb9c;">I savoured Donna Watson's exquisite book</b><br />
<span style="color: #f9cb9c;"><b><a href="http://www.blurb.com/b/4564642-the-beauty-of-nothingness">The Beauty of Nothingness</a></b></span><br />
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<span style="color: #9fc5e8;"><b>MY GRANDMOTHER'S LOVE LETTERS by Hart Crane</b></span><br />
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<span style="color: #9fc5e8;"><b>There are no stars tonight</b></span><br />
<span style="color: #9fc5e8;"><b>But those of memory.</b></span><br />
<span style="color: #9fc5e8;"><b>Yet how much room for memory there is</b></span><br />
<span style="color: #9fc5e8;"><b>In the loose girdle of soft rain.</b></span><br />
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<span style="color: #9fc5e8;"><b>There is even room enough</b></span><br />
<span style="color: #9fc5e8;"><b>For the letters of my mother's mother,</b></span><br />
<span style="color: #9fc5e8;"><b>Elizabeth,</b></span><br />
<span style="color: #9fc5e8;"><b>That have been pressed so long</b></span><br />
<span style="color: #9fc5e8;"><b>Into a corner of the roof</b></span><br />
<span style="color: #9fc5e8;"><b>That they are brown and soft,</b></span><br />
<span style="color: #9fc5e8;"><b>And liable to melt as snow.</b></span><br />
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<span style="color: #9fc5e8;"><b>Over the greatness of such space</b></span><br />
<span style="color: #9fc5e8;"><b>Steps must be gentle.</b></span><br />
<span style="color: #9fc5e8;"><b>It is all hung by an invisible white hair.</b></span><br />
<span style="color: #9fc5e8;"><b>It trembles as birch limbs webbing the air.</b></span><br />
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<span style="color: #9fc5e8;"><b>And I ask myself:</b></span><br />
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<span style="color: #9fc5e8;"><b>"Are your fingers long enough to play</b></span><br />
<span style="color: #9fc5e8;"><b>Old keys that are but echoes:</b></span><br />
<span style="color: #9fc5e8;"><b>Is the silence strong enough</b></span><br />
<span style="color: #9fc5e8;"><b>To carry back the music to its source</b></span><br />
<span style="color: #9fc5e8;"><b>And back to you again</b></span><br />
<span style="color: #9fc5e8;"><b>As though to her?"</b></span><br />
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<span style="color: #9fc5e8;"><b>Yet I would lead my grandmother by the hand</b></span><br />
<span style="color: #9fc5e8;"><b>Through much of what she would not understand;</b></span><br />
<span style="color: #9fc5e8;"><b>And so I stumble. And the rain continues on the roof</b></span><br />
<span style="color: #9fc5e8;"><b>With such a sound of gently pitying laughter.</b></span><br />
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<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/markpowellart/sets/72157629599486798/"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b><i>See more portraits on Mark Powell's Flickr photo stream here.</i></b></span></a><br />
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<b><span style="color: #f9cb9c; font-size: x-small;"><i><a href="http://michaeldouglasjones.blogspot.com/">Michael Douglas Jones</a></i></span></b><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><b><i><a href="http://www.rachelphillipsphotography.com/">Rachel Phillips</a></i></b></span></div>
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<b><span style="color: #9fc5e8;">"In her series <i>Field Notes, photographs blend the domesticity of home with the joy of wilderness, the natural world. The paper houses are built from letters, postcards and envelopes saved through the decades in old shoeboxes by her grandparents and discovered in their attic a few years ago. The images are printed on old envelopes collected from around the world; artifacts from the last centuries." - Penopticon Gallery</i></span></b><br />
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<a href="http://www.panopticongallery.com/artist/rachel_phillips/#Rachel-Phillips-01.jpg"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b><i>Rachel Phillips unique wet transfer pigment prints on vintage envelopes. </i></b></span></a><br />
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<a href="http://www.teasdaleart.com/"> <span style="font-size: x-small;"><b><i>Joanne Teasdale (images fused on glass, steel wire, steel plate). See website here</i></b></span></a><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><b><i><a href="http://www.teasdaleart.com/">Joanne Teasdale</a></i></b></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><b><i><span style="color: #cccccc;">Letter from Eugene Delacroix to his paint dealer.</span></i></b></span><br />
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<b style="color: #f9cb9c;">....and the piece de resistance </b><br />
<span style="color: #f9cb9c;"><b>the illustrated love letters of Henry Moore to his mistress</b></span><br />
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<span style="color: #f9cb9c; font-size: x-small;"><i><b><a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b006mj2y/profiles/clive-farahar"> Love letters from Henry Moore to his mistress. </a></b></i></span><br />
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<span style="color: #9fc5e8;"><b><i>"I also delight in the way a shy restrained </i></b></span><br />
<span style="color: #9fc5e8;"><b><i>letter can reveal the writer's feelings thanks</i></b></span><br />
<span style="color: #9fc5e8;"><b><i>to one word he or she couldn't hold back, </i></b></span><br />
<span style="color: #9fc5e8;"><b><i>flying off like a reckless butterfly, landing -- </i></b></span><br />
<span style="color: #9fc5e8;"><b><i>it knows the exact spot -- in the corner of </i></b></span><br />
<span style="color: #9fc5e8;"><b><i>the reader's mouth, as a quivering smile, </i></b></span><br />
<span style="color: #9fc5e8;"><b><i>trembling at the premonition of a secret </i></b></span><br />
<span style="color: #9fc5e8;"><b><i>love that has in fact been avowed." </i></b></span><br />
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<span style="color: #9fc5e8;"><b><i>-- Agnes Desarthe, from Chez Moi</i></b></span><br />
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<span style="color: #9fc5e8; font-size: x-small;"><b><i>In this short life</i></b></span><br />
<span style="color: #9fc5e8; font-size: x-small;"><b><i>that only lasts an hour</i></b></span><br />
<span style="color: #9fc5e8; font-size: x-small;"><b><i>merely</i></b></span><br />
<span style="color: #9fc5e8; font-size: x-small;"><b><i>How much -- How</i></b></span><br />
<span style="color: #9fc5e8; font-size: x-small;"><b><i>little -- is </i></b></span><br />
<span style="color: #9fc5e8; font-size: x-small;"><b><i>within our</i></b></span><br />
<span style="color: #9fc5e8; font-size: x-small;"><b><i>power.</i></b></span><br />
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<span style="color: #9fc5e8; font-size: x-small;"><b><i>- Emily Dickinson</i></b></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><b><i><a href="http://www.stephenstrom.com/">Beautiful photography by Stephen Strom. Website here</a></i></b></span><br />
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<span style="color: #f9cb9c;"><b>There is something enchanting about walking near water and I've realized that I'm happiest near the sea or a mountain stream.... or at any waters edge, for that matter. My husband loves to tell the story (and it's becoming a bit tiresome) about how whenever I'm walking in the mountains and hear a stream burbling nearby I disappear into the bracken in search of it and he knows he will find me kneeling at the waters edge to taste the water.</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><b><i><a href="http://www.davidsongalleries.com/artists/gumpper/gumpper.php">Marsh (Reduction woodcut) by Jean Gumpper. See more of Jean's work here</a></i></b></span><br />
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<b style="color: #9fc5e8;">AT BLACKWATER POND by Mary Oliver</b><br />
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<span style="color: #9fc5e8;"><b>At Blackwater Pond the tossed waters have</b></span><br />
<span style="color: #9fc5e8;"><b> settled</b></span><br />
<span style="color: #9fc5e8;"><b>after a night of rain.</b></span><br />
<span style="color: #9fc5e8;"><b>I dip my cupped hands. I drink</b></span><br />
<span style="color: #9fc5e8;"><b>a long time. It tastes</b></span><br />
<span style="color: #9fc5e8;"><b>like stone, leaves, fire. It falls cold</b></span><br />
<span style="color: #9fc5e8;"><b>into my body, waking the bones. I hear them</b></span><br />
<span style="color: #9fc5e8;"><b>deep inside me, whispering</b></span><br />
<span style="color: #9fc5e8;"><b>oh what is that beautiful thing</b></span><br />
<span style="color: #9fc5e8;"><b>that just happened?</b></span><br />
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<a href="http://waterearthwindfire.com/"> <span style="font-size: x-small;"><b><i>Maureen Shaughnessy</i></b></span></a><br />
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<span style="color: #f9cb9c;"><b>While searching for an image to go with Mary Oliver's poem I stumbled across <a href="http://waterearthwindfire.com/">Maureen Shaughnessy's blog</a>. Maureen is an artist/photographer/poet who illustrated Mary's poem, In Blackwater Woods with the artwork (above). I think Maureens's images are perfect for Mary Oliver's poetry. Read her blog post <a href="http://maureensphotoblog.blogspot.com/2006/08/poetry-thursday-when-time-comes-to-let.html"> here.</a></b></span><br />
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<span style="color: #9fc5e8;"><b><i>"In our spiritual tradition, we give away whatever is holding us back -- whatever is troubling us -- by sitting beside running water and letting the negative feelings, thoughts, or obstacles go. We imagine the obstacles flowing away with the current, like a leaf or a twig". Maureen Shaughnessy</i></b></span><br />
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<b><span style="color: #f9cb9c;">I love this idea. Go<a href="http://waterearthwindfire.com/photography/let-go-of-what-holds-you-back/"> here</a> to read more.</span></b><br />
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<b><span style="color: #9fc5e8; font-size: x-small;"><i><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/tobchasinglight/with/12136817514/">Ripples by Paul Mitchell. See more of Paul's photos on Flickr, here</a>.</i></span></b><br />
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<b><span style="color: #9fc5e8; font-size: x-small;"><i><a href="http://ollikekalainen.wordpress.com/">Olli Kekalainen. See Olli's blog here</a></i></span></b><br />
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<b><span style="color: #9fc5e8;"><i>"Here is the fringey edge where elements meet and realms mingle, where time and eternity spatter each other with foam. The salt sea and the islands, molding and molding, row upon rolling row, don't quit, nor do winds end nor skies cease from spreading in curves". - Annie Dillard from Holy The Firm</i></span></b><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><b><i><a href="http://www.vervegallery.com/?p=artist_biography&a=SS&photographer=Stephen%20Strom">Stephen Strom. See more here</a></i></b></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><b><i><a href="http://www.thisiscolossal.com/2013/06/the-american-dream-a-sandcastle-suburb-consumed-by-the-ocean/">Suburban sand castles by Chad Wright. Photography by Lynn Kloythanomsup. See more photos of Chad's installation, Masterplan, here</a> <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/42211468@N00/sets/72157633200283710">and Lynn's photo stream at Flickr here.</a></i></b></span><br />
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<b style="font-size: small;"><i><a href="http://www.studiochadwright.com/">Masterplan by Chad Wright. Photography by Lynn Kloythanomsup. See Chad's website here</a></i></b><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><b><i><a href="http://www.samlock.com/">Arc by Sam Lock. See website here</a></i></b></span><br />
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<b><span style="color: #9fc5e8;">"Life, death, creation and destruction, this is the world I find myself in. </span></b><b><span style="color: #9fc5e8;">I want my art to echo these thoughts, everything in a state of flux, changing and reforming. A sense of decay along with life. Nothing is permanent and nothing stays the same." - Mark Chatterley</span></b><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><b><a href="http://franwilliams1310.com/section/150401.html">Did you ever find out what your dreams were about? by Fran Williams. See website here.</a></b></span><br />
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<span style="color: #9fc5e8;"><b><i>of love around you,</i></b></span><br />
<span style="color: #9fc5e8;"><b><i>an invisible cloak</i></b></span><br />
<span style="color: #9fc5e8;"><b><i>to mind your life."</i></b></span><br />
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<span style="color: #f9cb9c;"><b>While preparing for this post I kept coming back to Barry Smith's metal leaf forms. Barry is a generous soul who creates his metal artworks with love. He teaches his craft to <a href="http://rustnstuff.blogspot.com/2012/11/hands-of-maker.html">others </a>and sends his leaves into the world like little ambassadors, spreading peace and goodwill wherever they land.</b></span><br />
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<b><span style="color: #9fc5e8;"><i>"Please keep demonstrating the courage that it takes to swim upstream in a world that prefers putting away for retirement to putting pen to paper, that chooses practicality over poetry, that values you more for going to the gym than going to the deepest places in your soul. Please keep making your art for people like me, people who need the magic and imagination and honesty of great art to make the day-to day world a little more bearable". - Shauna Niequist</i></span></b><br />
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<span style="color: #f9cb9c; font-size: x-small;"><b><i><a href="http://donnawatsonart.blogspot.com/">History by Donna Watson. See more from this series, here.</a></i></b></span><br />
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<b style="color: #f9cb9c;">When Donna was struggling with a creative block I kept thinking ..... when she returns she will create art that will catapult her to another level ..... and I wasn't mistaken! Her new pieces incorporating cold wax, oils and collage are beautiful. </b><br />
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<b style="color: #f9cb9c;">A lot of research goes into Mary Ann's art. I enjoy tracking the ideas and thoughts that gently meander through her blog, culminating in beautiful artworks. </b>
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<span style="color: #f9cb9c; font-size: x-small;"><b><i><a href="http://gabriellalonde.blogspot.com/2014_03_01_archive.html">Gabriel Lalonde. See blog, here.</a></i></b></span><br />
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<span style="color: #9fc5e8;"><b><i>"And what is it to work with love?</i></b></span><br />
<span style="color: #9fc5e8;"><b><i>It is to charge all things you fashion with </i></b></span><br />
<span style="color: #9fc5e8;"><b><i>a breath of your own spirit." </i></b></span><br />
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<b style="color: #f9cb9c;"><br /></b><b style="color: #f9cb9c;">I felt a deep connection to this piece. The person who commissioned it shared just enough of her story for me to recognize similarities in my own life. I could relate to her story and was able to create the totem for the both of us.</b><br />
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<b><span style="color: #f9cb9c; font-size: x-small;"><i><a href="http://www.dorotheum.com/en/auction-detail/auction-9938-tribal-art/lot-1474496-mixed-lot-3-items-ethiopia-highlands-amhara-galla-et-al.html?no_cache=1&cHash=6e7dcbe7d4980d7b47f60f3b51cbbdbb">A very old bible of the Ethiopian Christian church, carefully inscribed on parchment in the sacred language 'Geez'.</a></i></span></b><br />
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<b style="color: #9fc5e8;"><span style="font-size: large;">Secrecy </span>by Margaret Atwood</b><br />
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<span style="color: #9fc5e8;"><b>Secrecy flows through you,</b></span><br />
<span style="color: #9fc5e8;"><b>a different kind of blood.</b></span><br />
<span style="color: #9fc5e8;"><b>It's as if you've eaten it </b></span><br />
<span style="color: #9fc5e8;"><b>like a bad candy,</b></span><br />
<span style="color: #9fc5e8;"><b>taken it into your mouth,</b></span><br />
<span style="color: #9fc5e8;"><b>let it melt sweetly on your tongue,</b></span><br />
<span style="color: #9fc5e8;"><b>then allowed it to slide down your throat</b></span><br />
<span style="color: #9fc5e8;"><b>like the reverse of uttering,</b></span><br />
<span style="color: #9fc5e8;"><b>a word dissolved</b></span><br />
<span style="color: #9fc5e8;"><b>into its glottals and sibilants,</b></span><br />
<span style="color: #9fc5e8;"><b>a slow intake of breath --</b></span><br />
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<span style="color: #9fc5e8;"><b>And now it's in you, secrecy.</b></span><br />
<span style="color: #9fc5e8;"><b>Ancient and vicious, luscious</b></span><br />
<span style="color: #9fc5e8;"><b>as dark velvet.</b></span><br />
<span style="color: #9fc5e8;"><b>It blooms in you,</b></span><br />
<span style="color: #9fc5e8;"><b>a poppy made of ink.</b></span><br />
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<span style="color: #9fc5e8;"><b>You can think of nothing else.</b></span><br />
<span style="color: #9fc5e8;"><b>Once you have it, you want more.</b></span><br />
<span style="color: #9fc5e8;"><b>What power it give's you!</b></span><br />
<span style="color: #9fc5e8;"><b>Power of knowing without being known,</b></span><br />
<span style="color: #9fc5e8;"><b>power of the stone door,</b></span><br />
<span style="color: #9fc5e8;"><b>power of the iron veil,</b></span><br />
<span style="color: #9fc5e8;"><b>power of the crushed fingers,</b></span><br />
<span style="color: #9fc5e8;"><b>power of the drowned bones</b></span><br />
<span style="color: #9fc5e8;"><b>crying out from the bottom of the well.</b></span><br />
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<b><span style="color: #f9cb9c; font-size: x-small;"><i><a href="http://sharmond.blogspot.com/2014/01/time-to-push.html">Sharmon Davidson shares details from Book of Secrets, a work in progress. Read more on Sharmon's blog, here.</a></i></span></b><br />
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<b><span style="color: #f9cb9c; font-size: x-small;"><i>Book of Shadows, a movie prop from Practical Magic.</i></span></b><br />
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<a href="http://www.indonesiainquiry.com/academia/research-resources/materials-for-a-literature-review-part-ii/attachment/800px-book_of_wizards_batak_indonesia/"> <span style="color: #f9cb9c; font-size: x-small;"><b><i>Batak Book of Wizards, Indonesia. See more here</i></b></span></a><br />
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<b style="color: #f9cb9c;">If you've read the comments you will be as curious as I am about Priya Sebastian's illustrations for the poem Secrecy by Margaret Atwood. See Priya's blog post, <a href="http://theplumtree2.blogspot.com/2014/03/secrecy.html">here</a>.</b><br />
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<b style="color: #f9cb9c;">It's been a busy few weeks amidst a long heat wave </b><br />
<b style="color: #f9cb9c;">Today seems to be a little cooler </b><br />
<b style="color: #f9cb9c;">but I won't hold my breath </b><br />
<b style="color: #f9cb9c;">since every day has turned into a scorcher</b><br />
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<span style="color: #f9cb9c;"><b>Bella and Digby are relishing a cooler morning</b></span><br />
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<span style="color: #f9cb9c;"><b><br /></b></span><b style="color: #f9cb9c;">This week, I worked hard getting commissions ready </b><br />
<b style="color: #f9cb9c;">for fumigation </b><b style="color: #f9cb9c;">before </b><b style="color: #f9cb9c;">shipping them out </b><br />
<b style="color: #f9cb9c;">across the world to two different continents</b><br />
<b style="color: #f9cb9c;">It's a good feeling knowing </b><b style="color: #f9cb9c;">my totems </b><br />
<b style="color: #f9cb9c;">are travelling to countries I long to visit. </b><br />
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<b style="color: #f9cb9c;">... a little journaling </b><br />
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<span style="color: #9fc5e8; font-size: x-small;"><b><i>Wedding chapel at iNsingizi</i></b></span><br />
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<span style="color: #f9cb9c;"><b>It's a relief that we've booked the venue</b></span><br />
<span style="color: #f9cb9c;"><b>the photographers</b></span><br />
<span style="color: #f9cb9c;"><b>the cake</b></span><br />
<span style="color: #f9cb9c;"><b>the dj</b></span><br />
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<span style="color: #f9cb9c;"><b>..... and that's as far as we've got</b></span><br />
<span style="color: #f9cb9c;"><b>but it's a start</b></span><br />
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<span style="color: #a2c4c9; font-size: x-small;"><b><i>A beautiful setting for a wedding</i></b></span><br />
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<b style="color: #f9cb9c;">It's going to be a busy year!</b>ArtPropelledhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15853722164314994360noreply@blogger.com74tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2290332160821152086.post-43025258689136299582014-02-08T18:13:00.002-08:002014-02-10T13:16:17.099-08:00EARLY MORNINGS<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="color: #f9cb9c; font-size: x-small;"><i><b><a href="http://amandaboe.com/What-I-Hold-Dear-1">Amanda Boe. See more of Amanda's photography on her website, here.</a></b></i></span><br />
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<span style="color: #9fc5e8;"><b>Hello, sun in my face.</b></span><br />
<span style="color: #9fc5e8;"><b>Hello you who made</b></span><br />
<span style="color: #9fc5e8;"><b>the morning and spread</b></span><br />
<span style="color: #9fc5e8;"><b>it over fields...</b></span><br />
<span style="color: #9fc5e8;"><b>Watch now, how I</b></span><br />
<span style="color: #9fc5e8;"><b>spread the day in</b></span><br />
<span style="color: #9fc5e8;"><b>happiness, in kindness.</b></span><br />
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<b style="color: #9fc5e8;">-Mary Oliver</b><br />
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<b><span style="color: #f9cb9c;">I love early mornings</span></b><br />
<b><span style="color: #f9cb9c;">before the world awakes</span></b><br />
<b><span style="color: #f9cb9c;">Everything is quiet and fresh</span></b><br />
<b><span style="color: #f9cb9c;">and then slowly</span></b><br />
<b><span style="color: #f9cb9c;">creatures begin to stretch and sing</span></b><br />
<b><span style="color: #f9cb9c;">greetings to the new day</span></b><br />
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<b style="color: #9fc5e8;"><span style="font-size: large;">Mornings </span>by Billy Collins</b><br />
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<b style="color: #9fc5e8;">Why do we bother with the rest of the day,</b><br />
<b style="color: #9fc5e8;">the swale of the afternoon,</b><br />
<b style="color: #9fc5e8;">the sudden dip into evening,</b><br />
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<b style="color: #9fc5e8;">then night with his notorious perfumes,</b><br />
<b style="color: #9fc5e8;">his many-pointed stars?</b><br />
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<b style="color: #9fc5e8;">This is the best --</b><br />
<b style="color: #9fc5e8;">throwing off the light covers,</b><br />
<b style="color: #9fc5e8;">feet on the cold floor,</b><br />
<b style="color: #9fc5e8;">and buzzing around the house on espresso--</b><br />
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<b style="color: #9fc5e8;">maybe a splash of water on the face,</b><br />
<b style="color: #9fc5e8;">a palmful of vitamins--</b><br />
<b style="color: #9fc5e8;">but mostly buzzing around the house on espresso,</b><br />
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<b style="color: #9fc5e8;">dictionary and atlas open on the rug,</b><br />
<b style="color: #9fc5e8;">the typewriter waiting for the key of the head,</b><br />
<span style="color: #9fc5e8;"><b>a cello on the radio,</b></span><br />
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<span style="color: #9fc5e8;"><b>and, if necessary, the windows--</b></span><br />
<span style="color: #9fc5e8;"><b>trees fifty, a hundred years old</b></span><br />
<span style="color: #9fc5e8;"><b>out there,</b></span><br />
<span style="color: #9fc5e8;"><b>heavy clouds on the way</b></span><br />
<span style="color: #9fc5e8;"><b>and the lawn steaming like a horse</b></span><br />
<span style="color: #9fc5e8;"><b>in the early morning.</b></span><br />
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<span style="color: #f9cb9c;"><b>for some reason I imagine Billy Collins tapping out poems on an old typewriter</b></span><br />
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<b style="color: #9fc5e8;">"Is there anything I can do to make myself enlightened?"</b><br />
<b style="color: #9fc5e8;">"As little as you can do to make the sun rise in the morning."</b><br />
<b style="color: #9fc5e8;">"Then of what use are the spiritual exercises you prescribe?"</b><br />
<b style="color: #9fc5e8;">"To make sure you are not asleep when the sun begins to rise."</b><br />
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<b style="color: #9fc5e8;">- One minute wisdom</b><br />
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<b><span style="color: #f9cb9c;"><i>(Images without links are from pinterest. If anyone knows the name of the photographer please let me know)</i></span></b>ArtPropelledhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15853722164314994360noreply@blogger.com62