Bend

Bend

Bend down to touch

To make a closer observation

To make connection

To grow in relationship

With everything

Bend

Change your approach

To make things work

Let go of your need

To maintain control

of everything

Bend

It is a chance you take

True you might break

Hold on to love

Give yourself away

In everything

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Somehow I lost half of a

year of posting.

Oh well!

Starting again to try.

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Pictures in Trees

 I believe that the natural world has a consciousness

Sometimes it says hello

And then sometimes I take it farther

This is an image created on my phone

Looking out the

window I snapped

this picture

Thought I saw

a face

so I drew a face

My Camera has all

these filters

so I add some to my

Picture

up top is what I got

I think my Phone 

has a

consciousness

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Across the Line

Across the Line

 

There is no line
but the one I create in my mind
This universe is your universe
This universe is my universe
And yet there is truly no you and I
No your and my 
for we are one
We are together the consciousness of this universe
I am working at realizing this
it is a life long work

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More Connection Image

There are lines

we don't always see.

They connect us

to each other

and our many planes

of existence.

These are the lines

I have made visible

as they move between

the planes.

I do not see them

I only feel them, 

then imagine them.

We are connected.

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Comfortable Being Lost?

In Process

 I came to the realization the

other day that it seem like if you 

create or want to own abstract art 

you have to be comfortable with 

being lost. The image to the right

is being worked on at the writing 

of this blog post. It is in process, 

that is not its title. I keep adding 

elements and I am never sure 

where it will go next. I tend 

to spend long moments just staring 

at it and then all of a sudden adding something. 

It is as if I was lost in the woods with several directions I could

go in and then I just choose and go. With so many choices of

directions I could go in I think that is what keeps me making

art. Once I finish one piece with all its directional choices I start

over saying well let's take a different path.

So the next time you are looking at an abstract piece of art 

ask yourself am I comfortable with being lost or do I need the 

way to be clear. The art is not just about the artist, it is also 

about you.

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Summer Project

 I spent my summer on a different art form. The art of crafting built-in bookshelves, radiator covers and Built-in Benches. This is actually what I do to make a living and it is truly an art form. I still prefer more colorful and abstract forms of creativity, but people rarely want that in a bookshelf.

The Bookshelf is like an alter in the home. It is often the place that defines you. It tells visitor, "this is who I am." Besides holding books that interest you or have shaped your life, it holds momentous of travels, pictures of loved ones or art that inspires you.

In the long process of a job this size I often have to remind myself I am making a place for a family to be and be comfortable. As an artist I find it difficult to make box after box, which is what cabinet making is, and not get board. Remembering I am making a home more comfortable for others is often what I use to keep me going.

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Cloudy Waters

Cloudy Waters

 

This is a Photo taken with a cell phone. Clouds reflecting in the water enhanced by a filter that Out lined the ripples on the water. The straight lines at the bottom are vibrations from my kayak. I really enjoy the reflected world.

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