Monthly Archive for September, 2008

Imagination and Creatively Living on Purpose

Imagination is key to creating an artful and purposeful life.

We spend most of our days imagining all manner of things withStillnessout a purpose, yet these pictures, images and thoughts eventually guide our direction in life. Therefore it is important that we purposefully guide our images and pictures and thoughts. Take hold of our imagination and direct it on purpose. I make it a daily practice to take care of what I imagine so that it is congruent with my values and on purpose.

Purpose is a process, as alive as we are, It lives through us and along-side us. My purpose is to be an Artist in all aspects of my life,  actively working for inner peace and a society-world that reflects that. To inspire and coach others to be creative and celebrate life, to be compassionate, generous, and participate in what ever ways they can in creating a better world for the generations to come.

Here is how I worked my imagination today. I imagine a newborn baby opening its eyes for the first time, the shimmer of a dragonfly’s wings in the early morning light on Mount Fuji, the sun setting in the South of France over fields of sunflowers as far as the eye can see, biting into a crisp apple just picked, the smell of jasmine at night, the final note written on Beethoven’s fifth symphony, the final stroke of the brush in the Mona Lisa’s smile, seeing the fourth primary color, and what a world with an economy based on peace would look like.

It is a necessary thing for us to spend some part of our day to stretch the imaginative muscles with intention and direction.

This drawing is titled ‘Stillness.’ Be still, listen, see, observe and feel in the vast space of that stillness, and all that is possible emerges.

How Paintings Change My Life

Yes, paintings have changed my life, painting them and looking at paintings.

Fine Art Print for Sale

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Did you ever have a dream that you knew was a dream, yet lives with you in your waking hours as if it wasn’t a dream at at all ? It was such a short, simple dream, powerful and timeless, and lives in my body, as memory, retrievable and real.

I was this white, luminous, long legged spider, suspended from my own silken thread, in the midst of vast dark space, completely at home, free from fear.

This dream inspired a series of images that I produced for a solo exhibit at the Infusion Gallery in downtown Los Angeles, in Sept. of 2006 titled “Backbone.”

I replaced the spider with a woman and the silken thread with a rope, and began to explore my comfort zone with this image. This work was all dry media and I am currently reworking the theme in oil on canvas. This time I am including the original dream image of the spider, in this new series of paintings.