The Transforming Power of Art: Welding the Broken Pieces of Our Lives
Art-making has been a transforming power in my life, in my writing and poetry and paintings. Even in the artful …
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A Mayan Myth of Love, Self-Sacrifice & the Creative Process
I mentioned in my last post that I wrote a myth about the creation of the isthmus that now comprises …
Living in the Liminal—Permeable and Transparent
I’ve been reading (again) Jane Hirshfield’s Nine Gates: Entering the Mind of Poetry, a collection of essays on the art …
Poetry Making and the Art of Awe
I’ve been working on a poem I began here on this blog. It is a process, a gentle undoing and …
Field Notes From Within, Take Two
I’ve revised the poem I posted yesterday. I think this version better captures the heart of it. Let me know …
Landscapes of the Mind – Six Singular Experiences
It’s all about the mind, of course. All experience filters through it, the outward and inner, nature and the art …
On Photography – Researching My Sequel
I’m working on a sequel to my novel From the Far Ends of the Earth, mostly research and note-taking at …
New Paintings, Trees and More Trees
Three new paintings, part of my forest series, I suppose, but really just playing with styles and possibilities. All three …
More Feeling Than Memory: Flowing Leaves, A Swirl of Fish
Lately I’ve been leaning toward the abstract in my painting, but it’s hard to resist that representational pull. Especially when …
Bearing Witness – Art that Hurts, Art that Heals
So much of art-making is bearing witness–to things we love, to things that wound. And often they are the same …
