Category Archives: Other peoples words

Abstraction

Abstraction is often the most definite form for the intangible thing in myself that I can clarify in paint. . . I found I could say things with color and shapes that I couldn’t say any other way– things I … Continue reading →

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Make Your Maps as You Go

How to Discover Your Own New Worlds Step 1: Lose the Way The first step . . . shall be to lose the way.– Galway Kinnell It’s important to forget what you are doing–then a work of art may happen. … Continue reading →

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Trying to Avoid the Bubble Wrap

I hold a great deal against this system of organization, that is the separation of things that should not be separated. We categorize everyone. We send the old here: the young there. We ship adolescents off to war. We send … Continue reading →

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We Are Making History

“Quantum physics tells us that no matter how thorough our observation of the present, the (unobserved) past, like the future, is indefinite and exists only as a spectrum of possibilities. The universe according to quantum physics, has no single past, … Continue reading →

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An Inspired Life is Hard On the Nerves

Each moment is a place you’ve never been– Mark Strand (an idea taken from a conversation with a friend about a difficult situation that made us both stronger) It is difficult to get through an inspired life without making messes … Continue reading →

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