Quietly They Come

 Featured image: Little Red Bird - Rose Colored Finch

They came so quietly
Snow baffles sound
Tall pine sways
Taking deep breaths
Of life
Oh but wait ….
The chorus is here
Finches arrive
Softly they sing

Outline of Blue

 Featured image: Blue Jay II

Outline of blue
Surrounding a dirty
Grey
Birch white
Blue jay

Mindfulness

 

Featured image: Space The Last Frontier

mindfulness
looking at the
world, earth
mindfulness
treading softly
where others
have gone
wonder, histories
spirits
mindfulness
finding your way
softly

Invisible, Visible

 Featured image: The Creative

To make the invisible visible we only need to be creative.

Drip, Drip

 Featured image: Rain

Drip, Drip, drip, drip, drip
Drip, drip, drip, drip, drip, drip drip,
Rain water in my coffee.

Thick Opaque

 Featured image: Coffee in the Rain

Missing today
A breath of air
Thick opaque
Seeps through the woods
Raindrops fall.

Why Does a Conceptual Abstract Artist Paint Flowers

 

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 artist I may see imperfection, but I have found that others often don't see art that way. Rather they often see the beauty and creativity and appreciate and love something that I thought of as imperfect. That is one of the valuable lessons from art that I sincerely wish would be carried over into life - seeing the beauty and experiencing the artist in the work and relating to someone through art. Loving something that someone worries about is imperfect. Translated into life, seeing the beauty and appreciating or relating to the perspective and experience of someone else in a way that is different – that is true acceptance and that is wonderful.