"Rearranged" - charcoal and pencil on toned paper, 18" x 24" "Blue" - acrylic and charcoal on paper, 11" x 14" . Ready to frame. Each available here and at Artfinder. "Inevitably, certain experiences rearrange us." MARK NEPO Oh, Mark Nepo! How did you know? Rearranged. I have been rearranged. And still sorting out where the pieces fit well together. This puddling into the new year is a bit off-putting for me. Plans? Schedules? Calendars? These have always been my crutches. They're still here, of course, but I am keeping them just out of reach. Careening through each day like a drunken bull and letting the terrain beneath my feet determine which way I will meander. This isn't a graceful method for navigating through life. But it is something new, which leads to, well, more new things. Like an urban hike after dark with my sisters - standing on the muddy bluff of Overlook, peering down at the sparkly lights of the rail yard and the glistening Willamette river, navigating flooded back alleyways and streets. Graceful? No. Exhilarating? Yes.
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Carol Edan
1/10/2019 01:13:17 pm
I really have to get reading more of Nepo. Really great philosophy! Wow, you are really going with the figure! Been thinking of you because the piece I am working on, not figures in the study sense, reminds me of you. Not going to reveal...haha! Be well!
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jen
1/10/2019 01:57:11 pm
That Nepo...I swear he is inside my head. How does he know???
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Carol Edan
1/10/2019 02:53:40 pm
Are you going to Ireland to take a course with Pauline?
jen
1/10/2019 04:56:50 pm
oh gosh I wish! No, she has an online course in February.
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1/11/2019 06:58:19 am
Jen, I have to thank you again for how you read, what you notice, the way you use language to express your thoughts—even when you are careening through each day like a drunken bull.
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jen
1/11/2019 02:25:55 pm
Dotty! Oh gosh, I am so happy these mental meanderings are of benefit to someone. :) The resonating rearrangement is an odd thing - unsettled swirl is a hard place to be, and yet any attempts to rush or hasten will only cause more mud!
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