Creatively Thinking

  Featured image:  Whispering Winds A poem by Fernando Pessoa Let me hear the silence that there is after your singing.

  Featured image:  Little Hummer Some Native American cultures believe that the hummingbird stands for intelligence, beauty, devotion, and love. They are respected by these cultures as fierce fighters and defenders of their territory. In addition, they believe that hummingbirds are a symbol of good luck.  ~ cedarhilllonghouse.ca

  Featured image:  Loving relationships – The Cardinal Cardinals represent  devotion, loving relationships, courtship, and monogamy  above everything else in the Native American lore. Other tribes, like the southeastern tribe, associated good fortune and sun with them. www.caring  cardinal.com -    spiritual symbolism

  Featured image:  Spirits from the Earth “The imagination is always drawn to the hidden form of things.    Through its patience it coaxes the form to emerge.”     John O’Donohue

   Featured image:   Loon Perceptions are based on how we see something. Perceptions are formed based on how perceptions are controlled.  How something is controlled is based on how we behave.  And,  all of this has a lot to do with our history. Our history is not something we can change because our history is in the past.  If we want to find our spirit, our souls and ourselves, we need to look no further than our perceptions of ourselves and our history.   If we want to honestly be an artist and create art, we must look at what our perception is of what we are creating. We need to look at how things really are. We must ask ourselves if they are really, really bad or really, really good. We frequently try to kid ourselves as to our perception of something and its actual reality. For example, I may perceive a work that I did as wonderful and I love it.  BUT and this is a big BUT, no one else likes it. While on the other hand,  someth...

  Featured image:   The Sky is Crying aesthetic of bird songs. tiny miniatures operas, choruses stitched together morning yellow wings flapping as the sky blues.

  Featured image:  The Whole World Before I left for our southwest trip I was researching the Celtic art. Especially their knots. The symbolism within the Celtic knot is that all things are interconnected, women together. That means the good as well as the bad are woven into the knot. I wonder, if all things are intertwined, what was the thing that held the know together? I came up with the conclusion that it was faith. Faith according to the online dictionary is: complete trust or confidence in someone or something. Faith is also, according to the online dictionary, a strong belief in God or in the doctrines of a religion, based on spiritual apprehension rather than proof. Faith isn’t really a visual. It is just something to believe in and this belief allows us to imagine and create work that illustrates it; like the Celtic know.