Creatively Thinking

  Featured image:  Touch of Spring If you know my aesthetic, you may wonder why this abstract artist is suddenly painting flowers, flowers and more flowers. The simple answer? Because I can. When I say it is important for an artist to have freedom in creativity I mean it. And right now the colors and subject matter of flowers make me so happy – so I am going to continue to do them. It surprises me - I have never painted flowers for such an extended period of time. But I am learning so much in this process – and that is what being an artist is all about - discovering, exploring and doing what you love. So bear with me - yet another flower.  I recently wrote about the pandemic and creativity. I thought about the creative spirit and the freedom to be able to paint over something that isn't working for you as an artist. Creativity isn't about saying ‘well technically this is just fine’ rather it is about saying ‘I love it with all its flaws and imperfections’.  As an art...

  Featured image:   Charting Pathways When I walk this path Boots touching the earth There is such a  Reverence for where I am.

  Featured image:   Spring Dance When we stay too far  into chaos Fear,  the unknown pull us back. There should be no fear in  chaos is, the beauty of the earth and all things natural.

  Featured image:   Big Water Ocean Pacific Dusk Oceans waves Each one filled with such Power and energy. Each one fade into the sands Whiteness. The energy

  Featured image:   At Peace Take the time To look…. At the heart Of the earth… And… The place you are in It’s breath It’s life It’s a delightful Breathe it in Earths glory Never fails Peace

  Featured image:   Along the Edge Earth Golden new growth Shag bark spreads V branch reaching up Reaching, reaching Touching the sky

  Featured image:  Mirage The unknown invites possibilities.

  Featured image:   Circle of Life The circle of time permeates all histories and cultures. Birth, life, death. The circle of transcendence also permeates all histories and cultures, but it isn’t locked within like the circle of time. The circle of time is tightly woven, the circle of transcendence fibers is loosely woven and not bound to something like time. The weaving of one time into another time, the weaving of one concept of transcendence into another, interlocking the two, time and transcendence allows us to reflect through the history of time, and create through the history of transcendence. When the circle of transcendence can move beyond the tightly woven weave of time, creation and creating, happens.

  Featured image:   Sun, Tree, Water creating water, air earth sky earth moving moving together YET Separate

  Featured image:   Rocks, Rocks and More Rocks red rock rain creamy yellow sand spires earth sky

  Featured image:   Mary's Necklace She has a sense of place – What is your sense of place?

  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

  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 . 

  Featured image:   Arizona Landscape Spontaneity is how we link to the unknown.

  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

  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...

  Featured image:  Tree, Tree, Tree watching the light move and change flooding the woods emerging day