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“Illuminate” Art Show Opening
“Without light, darkness projects an infinite wilderness void of life.”
“Side Hustle” Part of the artist life
“There is nothing more economically valuable than teaching people how to articulate and communicate.” Jordan Peterson
Draw Your Soul
…it brought peer recognition but more importantly, it set in motion that insatiable desire to draw my soul.
Visual Artists: Recession 2022
Local Art Galleries Then: And Now Traditional art galleries, a 19th century invention, continue to operate. Dying retail footprints first shrink the brick and mortar platform. And second; join the Meta universe, the 24/7 digital marketplace reaching an ever larger audience. The Pandemic accelerated the learning curve on mastering the type of technology needed to…
Soiree # 7 Update
Art-Centric and Poetic One of the first people I spoke to about my idea and vision of hosting “art-centric” events was poet Shawnte Orion. We posed in a “make-shift” shadowbox for this photo. I think it is a photo by Jia Oak Baker. Now a couple of years later, we are working on the spoken-word…
“Illuminate”
“There is a sense of sacredness and security seeing the light illuminating the dark.”
Spirituality in Art
The ethos of the desert is present in my work.
Totems: Spiritual Markers
A totem is a symbol for a sacred object.
“Surrender”
Desert Spirituality I am fascinated by religions, especially Native American religion and culture. Shamans and healers, speak about the meaning of engagements with the animal spirits. These holy men say that a hawk is often a messenger from Angels, Devas and the Divine. I muse that the found objects embedded within my work are like…
Is the traditional art gallery dead?
A disappearing retail category: art galleries The role of travel agents continues to disappear, replaced by apps and algorithms to book a hotel, rent a car and buy tickets to a show. Video stores, bookstores, camera shops, the brick and mortar versions have vanished, displaced by technology. Art galleries, cultural and art museums continue to…
Desert Agave: Sharp, Spikey, Spiritual
An elegant design adapted for desert life. Sharp and spikey for protection, with a smooth and tough skin to capture what is rare in the desert: Moisture. It lives as it was designed. In a way, I am casting the “inner” life of an Agave, its invisible nature full of life and light. The Agave…