December

The blowing leaf

the darting squirrel

my thoughts

the difference?

Stories from the Recycling Center part 1

Sometimes I see what's in the bin before I dump my papers in.
This had been thrown away:

Dancing to the music

Boomer Visions#1

Art, Craft and Archetypes

I was on an Open Studio tour today and enjoyed seeing the work and homes and studios of people I have come to know over the past ten years...
Oh boy, This may be more a book than a blog
I was struck by the attention to technique, detail, control, breadth of knowledge of these painters. There was something Heroic, Apollo-like about the detail and care of these paintings. Indeed, they looked very much like the person, the place the thing.
I'm moved by Saturn, the brooding one; and Hermes, the speedy one who turns things upside down. I like the Trickster who does several things at one: making order and disorder...

Do different archetypes inspire different "art"? Is one really any "better"?

Things a bit slow? Maybe its just that season of you

"There are times to cultivate and create, when you nurture your world and give birth to new ideas and ventures.
There are times of flourishing and abundance, when life feels in full bloom, energized and expanding.
And there are times of fruition, when things come to an end. They have reached their climax and must be harvested before they begin to fade.
And finally of course, there are times that are cold and cutting and empty, times when the spring of new beginnings seems like a distant dream.
Those rhythms in life are natural events.
They weave into one another as day follows night, bringing, not messages of hope and fear, but messages of how things are."
-Chogyam Tungpa

Kurt Seligmann

January, 2012 will be the 50th anniversary of the death of Kurt Seligmann. Here is his 1954 work, Exotic Garden, currently available from The Art Institute of Chicago

His farm-retreat was here in Orange County and was willed to the "Citizens of Orange County" after his wife's death thirty years later. It is now a welcoming and accessible community organization with beautiful land and buildings.There is a growing group of regional people interested in exploring and marking the presence of Surrealism in this rural area.

For the moment(whatever else is there?), I'm willing to help gather these interested people into some discussions on how to manifest surrealism, again in this County; how to recognize the presence and legacy of Kurt and Arlette Seligmann.








Here are a few of his unfinished paintings still around

to close out 2009,
The Book I just finished --Bluebeard by Kurt Vonnegut--

The Movie I just saw
--Cherry Blossoms by Doris Dörrie--

Vonnegut has a character explain his notion of non-entity---those moments of joy, of Flow, when God is NOT controlling our lives.

Dörrie explores aging,
death and how memory lives on.