Click on it to increase the size. A history of a painting... where it's been before it got to where it is. There are other histories, like 'where,' 'who,' 'why,' oh and perhaps most important, 'what'- :)
Sheath of feeling. Words groping to touch air.
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Woman with Flowers 7.1
(7th sketch in series, first iteration of this one) Woman with Flowers Flowers, props upholding the woman. The flowers, fragrant, imaginar...
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The Buddha says: “ You cannot travel the path until you have become the path itself .” The path is uncertain. Uncertainty is the guiding for...
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direct link: Tones of Noir music: Alex Bailey, ' Piano Improvisation No 7 .' Do poems wait to be born? A poem whittled out of t... -
What if relationships are the primary ordering principle? What if the way relationships are ordered clarify, explain, and instruct us on th...
I hope you'll keep doing this from time to time! I love it and the blog form is perfect for it.
ReplyDeleteI agree with Jean
ReplyDeletethat the blog is the ideal (currently) form
for posting a work in progress
especially visual ones
the essential instrument though
is the digital camera
which makes the recording
spontaneous and gives
instant feedback
awhile back
when I started sketching
I did the same
and it is SOOOOO
instructive
and the second one
remains
my favorite
there is so much
beauty present
in the unfinished
(perhaps part of it stems
from that very state)!
(I used to tell my sons
they were the best of my unfinished projects!)
Jean, the main reason I started blogging was to deal with a writer's block, and soon realized it was equally good for my painterly block. I post everything in progress; it's really helped.
ReplyDeleteSuzanne, thank you so much- I agree with you, and am glad I have a record of the watery transitions. More philosophically, our lives really are our true art, aren't they? And our children, oh they go on to create themselves, hopefully with a good foundation of love that we've given them...
I love the transformations here. I see layers of emotion, tumult and resolution.
ReplyDeleteMelissa, you're creating poetry all through my posts today! Seven comments in a row! And everything you've said arising from a deep wisdom, like an underground spring of pure, fresh water, where creativity flows... thank you.
ReplyDelete"emotion, tumult and resolution," yes, especially the burying of the light under the turquoise blue so that it becomes 'enfolded,' what's inside beaming out...