Creatively Thinking

  Featured image:   Evening at the Feeder Tilted purple black neck they watch her as she watched them, Tilted heads purple- black necks stretch Beautiful  ravens, Beautiful ravens.

  Featured image:   Miracles of All Things Natural she comes sunlit silent grey stoic rock billions of years old moss covered boulders water breaks as she passes by fresh, clean fragrance tumbled rocks on the hillside stairways of stone chaos and order all in the same place nature

  Featured image:   Sunrise in the Morning at the Lake Sunday morning       God's day sun rises slowly over       the horizon still waters pink sky orange lines lime green accent

  Featured image:   Circle of Life The circle      Infinite Space       Infinite The circle      Universal    Divine      Scared No beginning No end      Balance       Unity

  Featured image:   Gifts from God If we allow  ourselves to think  others are lacking … lacking        essential …… whatever’s….        …truths…        aren’t we boxing ourselves in?

  Featured image:   White Feather I am always waiting for what gives me that deep deep interval breaths.  Today this surprise happened when I saw a beautiful white feather fall.  Moving --- through pink sky and finally becoming part of Whiteness.

  Featured image:  Feel'n Fortunate   I listen I think       She is saying      what she personally thinks. How she  thinks….       Is not what I think       I feel she is saying       listening personally       thinking personally

  Featured image:  As the Wind Blows drifting       southerly eagles wings        slowly        tilt currents of air       moving       invisible

  Featured image:  Seasons the gift of tears        frozen on skin sadness NO powerful joy       tears…       burdens released she weeps

  Featured image:  Raven's Spirit I tell and 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. The 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 gallery hopped in 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 really needed to do some research. 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, the symbols they put on their clothing, drums, shields, decorations. I was especially ...

  Featured image:   Ravens in the Backyard Imagine sitting near a snow drift that covers over your head. Blending with pearls falling from the sky. Two ravens at the end of the path.

  Featured image:  Forever 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 knot 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 is 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, that it is just something believed in and this belief allows us to imagine and create work that illustrates it; like the Celtic knot.

  Featured image:  Sun, Tree, Water Landscapes quietly absorb the tones, textures and rhythms of our living.

   Featured image:   Big Pine and Chickadee glistening       droplets….. frozen       sun……       pine….. covered in        beauty

Featured image:   Red Tailed Hawk My commitment in life is to be constantly creative and to encourage others to live creatively.  Think about it….. If we all live creatively and valued creativity, how different the world would be.   My commitment to my work is to always challenge myself and be creative. That means I want my work to be filled with the spirit of freedom, the spirit of individual freedom and that the spirit of the collective is freedom. Freedom of spirit and spirit’s vision. How does an artist create freedom in their work? It depends on how an artist defines freedom. Imagine how freedom would be if we all lived in spaces that are surrounded by our concept of freedom. Our spaces that are created by the creator, ourselves and not another.

  Featured image:  Wolf Is your space, the one that surrounds you all the time, filled with new insights, new perspectives, new examples, new options, new alternatives, and new doors to walk through?  If not, perhaps you have to think about your choices, the ones you make personally so that your space, the one that surrounds you, is filled all the time with new insights, new perspectives, new examples, new options, new alternatives and new doors to walk through.