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Voices
The cliffs and canyons are alive. Ask anyone who lives around them. They are the home of living spirits who emit not just light, but sound. Voices. You…
Sep 14
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August 2023
Flames
We use fire as a metaphor for many things—love, faith, energy... That astonishing force of nature has been an indispensable part of human life from the…
Aug 26
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Child Care
You don’t see many children depicted in art, except maybe those cute quasi-erotic cupids and cherubs. They tend to be on the naughty side and I suspect…
Aug 5
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July 2023
Silly Dreamers
We seem to be emerging from a bizzaro time. A tiny life form attacked the mightiest life form and we crumbled—falling into pieces of quivering fear…
Jul 13
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June 2023
What's Real?
The Art of the Message
Jun 28
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Art and Soul
In dark times, art is my visual expression of hope. Hope is a wondrous thing. It ignores the odds. It dances on the head of rational despair and does…
Jun 8
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May 2023
A Flash of Light
Life is not a continuum. It is not one big sweeping expanse of time and experience. Life is a collection of moments held in trust somewhere inside your…
May 21
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Quick Note--PTSD and Art
Thank you so much for joining me on this voyage into the spirits of art. It is the beauty and the vision of art that makes us truly human and allows us…
May 10
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Drawing on Air
You were there when it happened. You were that first ancient ancestor who took a finger and drew something in the sand. Deliberately. I was there too…
May 3
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April 2023
Space Made Solid
Sculpture is space made solid. It holds sacred a place in the air around it—a place born of vision and occupied by art. A statue not only commands…
Apr 1
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March 2023
The Life of Silence
There can be silence without sadness and contemplation without loss. Silence is not empty. It's not even quiet. It can be intensely alive with thoughts…
Mar 18
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The Transforming
All art is about transition. Landscapes are ever changing, even without people. Time flows and human life streams with it. It’s a steady, almost…
Mar 4
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