Intensely in the Moment

Intensely In the Moment

"Intensely in the Moment" - acrylic on gallery wrapped canvas, 16 x 20 x 1.5.  Ready to hang (Sides are painted; no need to frame - hanging wire is attached).  Available here and at Artfinder.


While we must hold onto our memories because they serve as guide maps to our futures, a truly meaningful life is lived intensely in the moment.
-David Stoner, The Dream

It is one of those weeks where I feel porous.  

Like all the things outside are felt deeply on the inside.  

Could it be the full moon?  Fall? The swirling, whirling world of all the things going on out there?  It seems synchronistic timing to discover this book of stories by David Stoner.  Each one leaves me deeply moved, reaching for the box of tissues and also grateful for the beauty of words expertly wielded and stories of vulnerability and pain gently told.

And, of course, it was week two of the Expressive Portraits course with Pauline Agnew, so feelings and paint became fodder for faces.  In this particular piece, don't adjust your glasses or your computer settings - it is intentionally blurred.  The requisite 80 million layers of paint, with several of the wet layers pulled left to right, up and down with a squeegee and a rubber wedge to draaaaaaaaaag the image into a slightly blurred perspective.   Which has kind of been my perspective all week!  So life imitating art imitating life.  Whoa!

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Another exciting auction weekend coming up with Artistic Souls Gallery!  October 4-5.  Here's a sneak peek at some of my offerings. 

The Voice That Speaks Inside

Notorious

Anything Can Be

I'd Rather Play