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Elsewhere

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  Featured image: Elsewhere my heart is pierced once again a moment of golden light returns my sense of  wonder I am at rest  elsewhere

River Banks

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  Featured image: Winter River rivers edge frost-making  stillness along its banks dewy brown dark  before brightening grey,            silent world slowly, the sun, orange,           red erupts rivers banks streaming glistening under the flow of celestial light

If Only

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  Featured image: We Are What We Wonder But only if if we allow it to be self forever infinite time and space

Fill Up Your Senses

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  Featured image: Improv II- Discovery questions take endless journeys be surprised explore discover fill up your senses

Sweeping

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  Featured image: Whispering Winds winds of life heaven's breath sweeping

A Friend

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  Featured image: Friends a friend what is it that makes  you  call them friend? Exchanging sharing unconditional love unconditional trust forgiveness judgment. Caring for them when they are in danger. It is the space you give them to be  themselves  it is the enjoying every moment of who they are. It is the laughter you share together and the tears, It is the knowing  what they are going to say before they say it. It is these many things that make you call someone a friend. But most of all it is the sharing of each other’s lives and trusting caring.

“Zephyr Winds” Selected as Finalist

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 Featured image: Zephyr Winds “Zephyr Wind” 16x16 Various watercolors on 300# Arches paper Christine Alfery’s work “Zephyr Winds”  was selected as a finalist in the International Splash 25: Best of Watercolor, a ArtistNetwork publication.  Christine’s Statement for Splash 25. break of day a zephyr wind bringing morning light and early spring breezes. I feel its gentle caress I breathe deeply contently and say to myself, it is great to be alive. Watercolors are such a perfect match for me and who I am because watercolors are spontaneous and lend themselves very nicely to gestural brush strokes and instant gratification, like the prize in a McDonald's “Happy Meal.”  My artwork is all about the earth, and the stories the earth keeps. Stories about an individual's journey throughout time and the footprints they have left for us to discover and learn from. Stories about their lives, and how they figured things out, and then in turn, how we figure and learn things out an...