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Our Walls Crumble When No One is Looking

1/5/2023

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"Our Walls Crumble When No One is Looking" - oil on paper, 12.5 x 16.5.  Available here and at Artfinder.

Consider how the sun washes the Earth with its heat and then clouds dissipate, and grasses grow, and stones crumble when no one is looking to reveal a smoother, deeper face. It is the same with us. In a moment of realness, the clouds in our mind clear and our passion is restored, and our walls crumble when no one is looking. It all continues and refreshes, if we let it.  MARK NEPO, The Book of Awakening
And a new year begins.

Already I am wondering, how will I be different at the end of this year?  How will my heart feel?  What will the art look (and feel) like?  Where will my feet have walked in those 365 days?

​I have SO MANY IDEAS.  It's a bit overwhelming.
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Our Wall Crumble When No One is Looking
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Despite all the wondering, one thing is for sure:  I will continue to wander.

More than that, I will EMBRACE the wandering.

Now wait a minute, whoa, hold on there lady.  As artists, we're suppose to find our voice and STICK WITH IT, right?  Or at least, that's what "they" tell you.

Um, nope and nope.  I plan to let the art wander EVEN MORE than it has in the past, dropping all the inner critic voices and the anticipated judgment of others and just make the dang things.

Reading over this, that is a LOT of capitalized words.  I'm not yelling, dear reader.  Well, maybe I am a little.  I'm FEISTY about the wander.  

Raise your voice in the comments below, creatives!  Where are YOU going to wander?

Wonder Mike and Lilly are falling all over themselves with excitement!  They couldn't choose just one winner of the reader giveaway...they chose TWO!  Leslie M and Traycee, you're the winners of a free piece of original art!  Email me at [email protected] with your address, and the shipping pooches will have your treasure on the way in a jiffy.  And thank you for participating!
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Dotty Seiter link
1/5/2023 04:55:10 pm

Thank you once again, Lola, for reading more s l o w l y than I do, and for then pulling little nuggets from what you read to share with me. It all continues and refreshes, if we let it. I feel refreshed just reading that. I see rainy day reflections and refractions in "Our Walls"—this painting has a cleansing watery washed effect. It is positively SHIMMERING with ALL YOUR SO MANY IDEAS!

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Lola
1/7/2023 04:15:11 pm

Dotty! You are so very welcome. I am refreshed and emboldened by your comments! Hooray! Thank yoU!

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Carl
1/6/2023 08:50:37 am

Yes. Embrace the wander whether it is media subjects or both! Wendy says I’m an art chameleon. The minute I crack how to do something I move on to something else. These days I balance that with teaching watercolor twice a week. So I think I’ve changed to a grounded wanderer 🙂

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Lola
1/7/2023 04:16:00 pm

Carl!!! You ARE an art chameleon! That's a perfect description! And one of the reasons you and I get along so well...that wandering kindredness.

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Thea link
1/6/2023 11:30:58 am

I haven't consciously thought about blowing off the cobwebs and giving myself permission to radically change my art making process in eons......Wait.....Did you just hear that? It was a sigh of relief, from my soul.LOL thanks Jen!

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Lola
1/7/2023 04:16:48 pm

Thea!!!!! Hooray for relief and radical art process changing! I cannot WAIT to see where you wander with this! xo

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Traycee
1/6/2023 12:48:57 pm

I look forward to seeing/hearing more about your wanderings and adore your feistiness on the subject! I've been longing to wander into more abstraction in my work. It's time. Excited to see where it leads.

P.S. I'm jumping up and down about being chosen for the giveaway. THANK YOU for sharing your gifts and light! And thank you to Wonder Mike and sweet Lilly. xo

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Lola
1/7/2023 04:17:55 pm

Traycee!!!!! Yes yes and YES! Abstraction is calling you!!! I can't wait to see where you wander!

And you are so welcome! The pooches are quite delighted and cannot stop beaming!

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Carol link
1/6/2023 12:50:31 pm

Every time we start a new work we are on a new journey. We begin ,wander not knowing where we will end. Love your new paths!

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Lola
1/7/2023 04:18:29 pm

Carol!!! You are the art process whisperer....and you always have just the right words! Thank you!

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