 Broken Hallelujah, 40x30, Encaustic/mixed media Beauty even in brokenness--I think that's what Cohen was writing about...
“...There’s a blaze of light In every word It doesn’t matter which you heard The holy or the broken hallelujah?” Leonard Cohen, composer “The wound is where the light enters you” Rumi, 15th century Sufi Mystic  Chasing the Sun: Daybreak, 12 x 36, Encaustic with photo bits Searching & Chasing the Sun — I’ve done some paintings with the idea of “Chasing the Sun.” These are a side trip along my Searching for Beauty in a Broken World journey. These paintings are visual metaphors which focus on bright bits of optimism with strong mid-day yellows, sunset oranges and reds, and occasional piercing metallics.
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ArtWorking...A journey through the creative process, working and traveling in the Northern Alleghenies of Pennsylvania.
AuthorI practice artworking in several different media: encaustic, collage, egg tempera, block printing, and digital Archives
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"Creativity makes a leap, then looks to see where it is." Mason Cooley
When we look at a particular work of northwest coast art and see the shape of it, we are only looking at its after-ife. Its real life is the movement by which it got to be that shape. Bill Reid, Haida carver "Creativity is not the finding of a thing, but the making of something after it is found" James Russell Lowell, American Poet "It is a widely accepted notion among painters that it does not matter what one paints as long as it is well painted. This is the essence of academicism. There is no such thing as good painting about nothing." Mark Rothko, artist |
