Creatively Thinking

  Featured image: Rocks Along the Ogami Shore Does a rock have a smell? Perhaps moss, earth; but really for the most part rocks, that is a rock all by itself – just washed, doesn’t have a smell.  Well, that is my take anyway.  The lack of smell in a rock illuminates smell in so many other things surrounding it.  For example the rocks in my garden, and their lack of smell don’t distract me from the wonderful smells of my flowers in the garden.  Smell and no smell need each other. They  are opposites. Life is the same way.  Opposites need each other, difference is extremely important, for it illuminates our otherness, like rocks and flowers.   Celebrate otherness.  Celebrate life.

  Featured image:  Rocks, Rocks and More Rocks rocks….. lake superior shore a striped one catches my eye …. I gather it and will journey with it.

   Featured image: Earth Sings I have found ….      my thoughts       my words       my actions are in balance with earths energy and vibrations.

  Featured image: Change II Change Is…. change is ….. happening north winds shifting rattle trees leaves quiver their scent in the wind announcing change is …. happening

  Featured image: Not All Who Wander Are Lost When who you are Can no longer be What you do And who you are Is simply Who you are ~ Zach Hivey

Featured image: Arizona Landscape this land…. the land of     wanderers dancers with the sun the wind the rain

Featured image: Snow Globe parallel worlds gardens surround her like a snow globe  blue sky above her in parallel worlds cell phones demand attention cars filled with folks going to work   … … yet … she is able to sit in a remote place of solace and beauty a sanctuary a sheltered  a snow globe

  Featured image:  The Sky Stone Jacket aka Turquoise Jacket I am absolutely thrilled and deeply honored to announce that my painting "Turquoise Jacket" has been accepted into the highly prestigious "Utterly Profound" exhibition, hosted by ISEA (International Society of Experimental Arts).  Being selected for this exhibition is a true testament to the power of artistic experimentation and innovation. It's an incredible opportunity to showcase my work alongside some of the most talented artists in the field.  The online exhibition can be viewed HERE !  I would like to express my heartfelt gratitude to the esteemed jury members and the ISEA organization for recognizing the value and uniqueness of my art. It is truly an honor to be a part of this exceptional exhibition. 

  Featured image: All Things Are Intertwined how can she speak of her love? for this ground the wild things the music of the wind a finch ….. water on the rocks its rhythm flowing her love is like a piece inside a kaleidoscope. changing colorful  patterns     ….  outside she turns this treasure  trove of gems changing … outside inside turning …. turning  her love ….   is the  yes, yes, yes, of life. how can she speak of this love ????? she is learning

  Featured image: Tumbled Rocks “ What strikes me is the fact that in our society, art has become something which is related only to objects and not to individuals, or to life. That art is something which is specialized or which is done by experts who are artists. But couldn’t everyone’s life become a work of art? Why should the lamp or the house be an art object, but not our life? ” — Michel Foucault

  Featured image: Sunrise in the Morning at the Lake “ Sweet sweet holy as the day begins ”  ~CEA

  Featured image: Dreamer …. they are dreamers seekers of truth seekers of freedom gathering stories as they journey on paths less traveled creating they are dreamers changing realities

  Featured image: River's Edge “You are a river reaching the depth of your spiritual seas.”   Carolyn Riker

  Featured image: Sky Land Water “ Art is grounded in the evolving, changing, formal, visual language that tries to define it. ”   ~ Christine Alfery

  Featured image: Crossroads “We dance around in a ring and suppose But the secret sits in the middle and knows.” Robert Frost

  Featured image: The Bridge bridge a dotted line porous difficult to cross finding, locating …..spirit ….soul ….self 

  Featured image: Talisman III I am truly humbled and grateful to have received first place in the prestigious Northwest Watercolor Society (NWWS) 83rd International Open Exhibition. It is an incredible honor to be recognized among such a talented group of watercolor artists.  The judge, Stan Kurth, carefully selected my artwork 'Talisman III' from over 300 entries to be showcased in this exclusive exhibition. To then be chosen as the recipient of the first place award is simply overwhelming. I am filled with joy and gratitude for this incredible recognition. Thank you, thank you so much.

  Featured image: Big Water Pacific Ocean Dusk Awe flow watching water rhythm  waves vastness awe

  Featured image: The Miracle of Life and Growth Live the life the Creator intended for you

 I began experimenting.  At the same time, I started seeing history not as a progressive linear line moving forward towards something better, but as carrying things forward from the past, mixing the past to the present. History became layered for me, I saw the concept of layering, not in my creative paintings in a different way, a different perspective. At the same time began a series of the earth and its layering, I was working on pieces for a solo exhibition in January 2024. If I bring layers of history forward, repeat the stories that are hidden in those layers, retell them, and create something from them, looking at them in a present light, history could then be seen as layering and not progressive. For example, I experimented with the concept of a layered history in a work I called “Turquoise Jacket,” The jacket is a story of a young person inheriting their grandmother's turquoise jacket.  The jacket smelled like the grandmother, and the jacket brought up memories ...

Featured image:  Yellow Trees on a Peninsula from soil to sky be still ….listen ….listen Beauties of the woods ….wisdom of the trees