Sense of Place
Featured image: Mary's Necklace She has a sense of place – What is your sense of place?
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Ravens
Featured image: Ravens in the Backyard Ravens, startled, rise on wings of black fire Fox lunging over marbled snow The skies golden with light Avoiding the menacing dark cloud
Soaring
Featured image: Arizona Sun Watching two birds soar within the energy of an air current. Their movement is wonderful, delightful, so glorious. And the beauty of it all is that their movement leaves no trace .
I Became
I Became One of the most eventual and very memorable experiences for me in my life was when I recognized I was one-of-a-kind, and knew it, and that I was a work of art. I imagined, I created, I became. Featured image: And The Wheel Goes Round And Round https://christinealfery.com/products/and-the-wheels-go-round-and-round
Fetish
Featured image: Arizona Landscape I tell stories and I create stories for all the works I create. They are personal stories about my life. I believe that stories are our wealth. No money, diamonds, gold, silver or what have you but stories. Our history. Stories we create become our history. I love hearing stories from others about their lives, and the lives of others who are important to them. Recently I traveled to the southwest, Tubac, Phoenix, Santa Fe, Sedona and Taos. I hopped in the galleries of all those towns, asking about the stories the artists were telling in their work, both 3 dimensional and 2 dimensional. At first I tried to visually read the artists' stories but then I found that I needed to do some research so I started asking questions about the artists' visual languages. I researched and bought books on the visual symbolism in their works. I am still researching – their pictographs, their symbols that t...
Watching
Featured image: Tree, Tree, Tree watching the light move and change flooding the woods emerging day