“how we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives”

-annie dillard

KOEN LYBAERT: ALMOST BLUE VIII.  See Restoration Hardware

Been ages since I have blogged saw this on a Louise Fletcher  Artist site. Thank you.

I have been re-reading Letters to a Young Poet by Rainer Marie Rilke, which has always been one of my favourite books. René Karl Wilhelm Johann Josef Maria Rilke (4 December 1875 – 29 December 1926), better known as Rainer Maria Rilke (German: [ˈʁaɪnɐ maˈʁiːa ˈʁɪlkə]), was a Bohemian-Austrian poet and novelist. He is "widely recognized as one of the most lyrically intense German-language poets".

Rilke was a poet who had achieved some success and he was approached for advice by an aspiring writer. Over the years he sent letters to the young man, each one filled with incredibly wise advice about the creative process. After Rilke's death, the letters were published as a book and each time I read it, I find something new. This time, it was this quote:

I know no advice for you save this: to go into yourself and test the deeps in which your life takes rise; at its source you will find the answer to the question whether you must create. Accept it, just as it sounds, without inquiring into it. Perhaps it will turn out that you are called to be an artist. Then take that destiny upon yourself and bear it, its burden and its greatness, without ever asking what recompense might come from outside. For the creator must be a world for himself and find everything in himself and in Nature to whom he has attached himself.

I am inspired and amazed by her work and vitality.  She paints what she knows and feels. I must learn to do the same. Thank you Luchita

Look to this day,

for it is life, the very breath of life.

In its brief course lie

all the realities of your existence;

the bliss of growth,

the glory of action,

the splendor of beauty.

For yesterday is only a dream,

and tomorrow is but a vision.

But today, well lived,

makes every yesterday a dream of happiness,

and every tomorrow

a vision of hope.

Look well, therefore, to this day.

March 28-2019

THOUGHTS

"visible", "invisible"

hollow space

empty glass

full glass

pour me another McCallan's

LOUD Silence

You need to be loved

You need to be recognized

You matter

People value what you are doing

You need to hear public praise twice

I did not listen the first time

Tell me again

Someone to say

You spent your life well.

Easy does it

Not really

Life is hard

Really

Work

Work made

Work made by

Work made by the hand

My hand

Really

Heavy

Headed

Light 

hearted

I am an Eternal optimist. I keep going. Keep Painting. Flying.

Kaua'i -based artist, photographer and Imagineer. I paint emotions, people, places and things. I am an American Abstract Expressionist Painter and Photographer.

As Ansel Adams says... “When words become unclear, I shall focus with photographs. When images become inadequate, I shall be content with silence.” And to quote my favorite painter, Joan Mitchell. "Feeling is something more; it’s feeling your existence. It’s not just survival. Painting is a means of feeling ”living”… .Painting is the only art form except still photography which is without time. Music takes time to listen to and ends, writing takes time and ends, movies ends, ideas and even sculpture take time. Painting does not. It never ends, it is the only thing that is both continuous and still, Then I can be very happy. It’s a still place. It’s like one word, one image." I agree...I want my work to exude joy, celebration, measured clarity and a sense of self. Creating art is more about communicating what I’m feeling than what I’m seeing.  About me.

Lost in the Finding

time moves

days are explored

life is lived

memories are erased

feelings are declared

on anxiety's edge i balance precariously between pause and flow...

amble, stumble, 

regain

guffaw, chortle

mindless prattle

cleavor; perhaps dull.

white thoughts,

black days

fear to halt.

sounds of yes 

hearing

no no no no no

soaring, flying, finding, 

unwinding, unyielding

unfolding, unbinding

delighted in resting

THIS PLACE

tired of trying

wanting

 longing for

yes yes yes yes yes

whenever, whatever

perhaps today

hopeful tomorrow

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