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Delilah

2/24/2019

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"​Delilah" - mixed media on paper, 18" x 24".  Unframed.  Available here and at Artfinder.

Mercury retrograde slammed into the Walls's house like a two-ton toddler on roller skates this week.  Technology snafus!  Paint disasters!  Miscommunication and a two-steps-foward and three-steps-back line dance among the clumsiest of humans.  Oy vey!   But this was not our first retrograde rodeo, so the weekend landed without injury or computers set on fire.

Maybe it was just the humbling prelude needed before I saw a local shaman in Multnomah Village, which turned out to be likely the most awe-inspiring, soul-sprouting and transformative experience I've had yet.  

Bob White is a gentle bear of a man and a practicer of Tibetan shamanism.  After some hours in his sacred space, surrounded by primordial sounds and energetic healing and a host of things I lack words to adequately describe, I feel like my life here in the PNW has been sanctified and the path illuminated.  I wonder what will happen next???
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Delilah - mixed media on paper

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Ogling Ornulf - acrylic on paper
Week three of Expressive Seascapes was tough!  My mojo was whimpering in a puddle as board after board was painted and then scrapped.  Sometimes we have days like that.  Especially during the retrograde.

So my recovery plan included a big piece of 300 lb arches watercolor paper and a mess of acrylics, squeegees, water bottles and chopsticks.  Another Ireland-inspired piece to heal my bruised ego.   That and a bit of ogling Norwegian painter Ornulf Opdahl, whose glacier paintings leave me weak in the knees.
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Dotty Seiter link
2/25/2019 07:17:09 am

You test me sorely, Jen! Here I am, in my gym clothes, needing to get streetable so I can arrive at an ultrasound appt. on time but what am I doing? Exploring brushstrokes and biological landscapes in your Delilah painting, aligning my spine and listening for drums and humming from gentle bear Bob, and adjusting my crampons mid-climb as I ascend an Ornulf iceberg!

Your post is awe-inspiring and soul-sprouting. Indeed, where WILL you go next???

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jen
2/25/2019 11:22:29 am

Dotty! You made me smile. Perhaps this was a "kitchen sink" post with a bit too much content, but I could not resist. And ORNULF! WHAT? Too much. What a painter. I am still ogling his work.

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Patti Bryan
2/25/2019 09:42:05 am

I'm thinking that the move was mostly so you could find Bob White. I am very excited. I work with a Shaman here and have received miracles at times, but always, healing.

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jen
2/25/2019 11:23:15 am

Patti, OMG! I am amazed by what he accomplished in a short time. You may be right...this connection feels pivotal to me!

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Carol Edan link
2/26/2019 09:48:55 am

Hope things calm down in the Wall household. Now I know what to blame when things aren't going the way I think they should. Great to have that choice!
From Delilah and the seascape looks like things have picked up!

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jen
2/26/2019 11:11:18 am

Carol, that darn retrograde is the perfect fall guy for most tech issues. :) I am so happy that the paint began to move properly after all!!!

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