I refer to Julia Cameron and her spectacular, life-changing book, The Artist’s Way, all the time because she and it have had a profound effect on my life. I offer here a poem she wrote to close out that beautiful book: Words For It I wish I could take language And fold it like cool, […]
The Art of Anna Karin, Truchas, New Mexico
You all know Anna Karin from my posts about putting together our new gallery, The Anna Karin Gallery, here in Truchas, NM. Anna is, of course, my partner in that venture. While I’ve written a post about her before (The Old Adobe Church, the Wolf and Survival), I’ve never written specifically about her workâan oversight […]
Decadence At Evoke Contemporary Gallery, Santa Fe
I had mentioned the opening of “Decadence” at Evoke Contemporary Gallery in my post about Lee Price’s show “Full” (see previous post Lee Price’s Show “Full” at Evoke Contemporary Gallery, Santa Fe), but had not yet had a chance to see the show myself. Anna and I went to Santa Fe the other day, specifically, […]
Core Meanings of the Ugly Duckling
Many of you responded to last week’s excerpts from Clarissa Pinkola Estes’s version of The Ugly Duckling as told in her book, Women Who Run With the Wolves. I thought I would offer additional excerpts today, this time providing Estes’s analysis of the fairy tale: “The problem of the exiled one is primeval. Many fairy […]
The Art of Becoming
Like the painter, Beatrice Mandelman, the famous Taos Modernist, coming to New Mexico dramatically changed my art. Prior to arriving here my career had been spent as a realist painter, primarily figurative and genre work. When I first visited Truchas, I was in something of a transition with my work. I was abstracting the backgrounds […]
The Ugly Duckling
I have quoted from Clarissa Pinkola Estes’s wonderful book, Women Who Run With the Wolves, on facebook many times and I have also mentioned her telling of Hans Christian Andersen’s fairy tale, “The Ugly Duckling”, on the blog. I highly recommend reading it for yourselves, but, because several of you have been communicating with me […]
William deBuys: The Wild and Open Heart
Another quote from one of my favorite authors, William deBuys, again from his book, The Walk: And in this world beyond the gates of Eden, if time passes and things keep happening, eventually suffering must intrude; it cannot be otherwise. And when suffering intrudes, still more complexity arises because suffering complicates our response to the […]