tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35250142354856624232024-03-13T00:45:19.722+01:00DAILY STRUGGLES OF AN EARTHMOVERUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger99125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3525014235485662423.post-35296528219845407672015-12-02T15:36:00.001+01:002015-12-02T15:36:21.800+01:00"No, the only tired I was, was tired of giving in." Rosa Parks describes the now historic moment of not giving up her seat to White Americans in a segregated bus. This quiet inner resolve of enough! is inspiring.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3525014235485662423.post-57118324479787936722015-10-09T16:08:00.004+02:002015-10-09T16:08:39.677+02:0015 years ago I read The Artist's Way and it completely altered the direction of my life. suddenly I was an artist? I hadn't even done art at high school! Today inspiration from that book's author, Julia Cameron: we must always bear in mind that each day's work is part of a body or work, and that body of work is the work of a lifetime.<br />
<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3525014235485662423.post-44780725042299641472015-09-23T17:33:00.000+02:002015-09-23T17:33:06.337+02:00Inspiration from from Eva Hesse in 1959<br />
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just stop thinking, worrying, looking over your shoulder wondering, doubting, fearing, hurting, hoping for some easy way out, struggling, grasping...stop it and just do.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3525014235485662423.post-47714976549994932522015-06-01T23:27:00.000+02:002015-06-01T23:27:09.345+02:00day 13 in Detroit. foreclosure as enforced by banks or local government is changing who lives in this city. a house here can be valued in so many different ways: tax revenue for a broke city, a home for a lifetime, a bargain at auction for an out of town investor.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3525014235485662423.post-60339959803105153472015-05-30T22:03:00.001+02:002015-05-30T22:03:11.110+02:00well into the second week in detroit. struck by the empty spaces in the urban streets. creating a rural/urban feeling. the spaces in the city could be someone else's memories of a glorious past, a place for pheasant to roam or maybe even an entrepreneurial dream to ride the real estate gold rush.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3525014235485662423.post-69007768534972209892015-05-21T23:54:00.002+02:002015-05-21T23:54:41.342+02:00day three in Detroit. we took a long drive to the bigger supermarket the other day. it meant leaving Detroit and entering Grosse Pointe. i don't think i've ever seen such a dramatic change between city borders; the houses seemed to triple in size, were the trees greener? Grosse Pointe is a suburban city with 93,2% white population.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3525014235485662423.post-6354329468698687562014-10-04T12:40:00.003+02:002014-10-04T12:40:52.610+02:00<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times, serif; font-size: x-small;"><i>wisdom from Alan watts</i></span><div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times, serif;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><i>We
get such a kick out of looking forward to pleasures and rushing ahead
to meet them that we can’t slow down enough to enjoy them when they
come. We are therefore a civilization which suffers from chronic
disappointment – a formidable swarm of spoiled children smashing
their toys.</i></span></span></span>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3525014235485662423.post-21273953385739372572014-04-16T12:33:00.002+02:002014-04-16T12:33:38.455+02:00inspiring words from matisse 'I cannot copy nature in a servile way; I am forced<br />
to interpret nature and submit it to the spirit of the picture.'Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3525014235485662423.post-45697227427885677842014-04-11T12:33:00.004+02:002014-04-11T12:33:43.178+02:00inspiration from Richard Diebenkorn " attempt what is not certain. certainty may or may not not come later. it may then be a valuable delusion."Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3525014235485662423.post-46921152635380681552014-04-11T11:02:00.001+02:002014-04-11T11:02:17.865+02:00Joan Didion inspires with " A hill is a transitional accommodation to stress, and ego may be a similar accommodation. A waterfall is a self-correcting maladjustment of stream to structure, and so, for all i know, is technique"Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3525014235485662423.post-69151508660994825862014-01-17T14:05:00.003+01:002014-01-17T14:05:30.177+01:00the tradition of building cathedrals of reason in an uncertain universeUnknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3525014235485662423.post-12684092042204490282014-01-15T19:38:00.001+01:002014-01-15T19:38:32.759+01:00surrendering to authenticity allows peace to flood inUnknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3525014235485662423.post-61890129781331923602013-12-23T13:16:00.002+01:002013-12-23T13:16:38.600+01:00a cloud elephant chases across the expansive blue skyUnknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3525014235485662423.post-52524530759079307062013-12-13T18:56:00.002+01:002013-12-13T18:57:56.204+01:00sitting in the studio. no music no wifi. sinking deep into the silence. it's both tender and fierce.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3525014235485662423.post-11414428248952916652013-12-05T10:08:00.002+01:002013-12-05T10:08:41.936+01:00the great thing that comes from embracing uncertainty... it reminds you that the past is really done and dustedUnknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3525014235485662423.post-80873715162502071462013-12-03T14:55:00.000+01:002013-12-03T14:55:01.806+01:00learning to feel supported within a universe of uncertainty.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3525014235485662423.post-81773492772978501972013-11-18T11:30:00.003+01:002013-11-18T11:30:39.749+01:00when the days feels like you are jumping up and down on a trampoline doing somersaults in the air.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3525014235485662423.post-12264591093800251392013-11-12T17:01:00.004+01:002013-11-12T17:01:53.359+01:00the lure of the avant garde for an artist. is it just a hook that starts a press release?Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3525014235485662423.post-40122405553553842082013-11-04T13:59:00.002+01:002013-11-04T13:59:50.662+01:00walking along a train platform , with a train arriving and departing on both sides. walking forward but my perception doesn't seem so sure.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3525014235485662423.post-29327204376197173662013-10-28T13:51:00.002+01:002013-10-28T13:51:11.520+01:00i step in an untried direction- invigorating!Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3525014235485662423.post-14486311891939775352013-10-22T13:12:00.001+02:002013-10-22T13:12:07.621+02:00i feel like my mind is blowing a gale! sudden change of pace, packing up after three week art residency.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3525014235485662423.post-5916533921035255902013-10-20T17:52:00.004+02:002013-10-20T17:52:59.287+02:00i gently lower myself into the depth of silence and collect the information from below.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3525014235485662423.post-67238071925851744822013-10-20T10:08:00.001+02:002013-10-20T10:08:45.224+02:00day eighteen of artist residency. eating walnuts from the tree. practising new fresco techniques.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3525014235485662423.post-77929666402690488422013-10-10T17:37:00.002+02:002013-10-10T17:37:22.925+02:00day eight of artist residency in chianti. learning fresco,eating porcini and walks amongst the vinyards and olive groves!Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3525014235485662423.post-27613769747523726422013-10-02T17:41:00.003+02:002013-10-02T17:41:30.598+02:00day one of artists retreat: chianti hills, butterflies, sun. work: noneUnknownnoreply@blogger.com0