 Chasing the Sun IV, 6.5 x 7.5, encaustic with collage elements My ancestors struggled in the cold grey of Scandinavia. They immigrated, worked hard, and made it easier for me to work for what I wanted along side what I needed. So I ask, am I making the best use of my place in the sun?
 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 |
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 "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 |
