So beautiful. Too often that voice of hope is ignored. Love all these collages, especially miracles dressed as disasters. And the photo art is really cool, too!
Thank you! Glad you like “miracles…”. I’ve been experimenting with gel plate printing off and on for a few months, and it’s been an absolute disaster ever time I try to use it. I’ve yet to have a successful print. The top half of “miracles…” is one of those ‘failed’ gel plate prints. Sometimes it’s the things that go wrong that turn out to be the most interesting, lol.
I have wanted to try gel plate printing for so long! I re-use failed prints, too, it’s good that’s mistake can be a positive if you look at it in a different way!
It's alright, maybe one day. I know some artists that make it look so easy, but if there's one thing I'm exceptionally good at, it's overthinking everything, lol.
There are times I'll walk past a discarded pile of stuff with weeds growing around them. The pile might be at the boundary of someone's property, could be next to their garage or something. And I wonder if the people in the house ever notice the pile. I wonder if anyone else who walks past looks at the pile and considers it, just resting there indefinitely.
I wonder how often the forgotten things go unforgotten by people who simply notice them as they pass by. They are little works of art, discovered collage pieces.
It's the quiet promise that cuts through the static of all our false pretenses. Something that calls to us in the stillness of making things. That brings us back to joy and peace and playfulness.
Something that survives the rubble with softness and subtlety, waiting to be reclaimed."
Your child self.
I feel like we are all the ages we have ever been--maybe all the ages we will ever be--all at once.
Yes! Exactly! Carlo Rovelli says that "the difference between the past and the future refers only to our own blurred vision of the world." Nothing escapes the gravitational pull of the present. It is the weight and the wonder we are always tied to. Thanks so much!
Was just reading Carlo Rovelli’s White Holes yesterday—full of mind-bending images of time stopping and running backwards! It is an impossible task to get my head around it. Fun to try though.
I know what you mean! White Holes was a struggle for me. I felt like I comprehended so little of it. I think I'll need to reread it a few times, and even then I'm not sure I'll get it, lol.
So beautiful. Too often that voice of hope is ignored. Love all these collages, especially miracles dressed as disasters. And the photo art is really cool, too!
Thank you! Glad you like “miracles…”. I’ve been experimenting with gel plate printing off and on for a few months, and it’s been an absolute disaster ever time I try to use it. I’ve yet to have a successful print. The top half of “miracles…” is one of those ‘failed’ gel plate prints. Sometimes it’s the things that go wrong that turn out to be the most interesting, lol.
I have wanted to try gel plate printing for so long! I re-use failed prints, too, it’s good that’s mistake can be a positive if you look at it in a different way!
I wasn't prepared for how difficult gel printing is! I just can't seem to get it, lol!
Oh no, that’s frustrating! I hope you pull a print you love soon. It does look kinda difficult, like there is a bit of a learning curve. Good luck ☺️
It's alright, maybe one day. I know some artists that make it look so easy, but if there's one thing I'm exceptionally good at, it's overthinking everything, lol.
Yep, me too!
You can't go wrong with Emily Dickinson. Waiting to see what she inspires.
There are times I'll walk past a discarded pile of stuff with weeds growing around them. The pile might be at the boundary of someone's property, could be next to their garage or something. And I wonder if the people in the house ever notice the pile. I wonder if anyone else who walks past looks at the pile and considers it, just resting there indefinitely.
I wonder how often the forgotten things go unforgotten by people who simply notice them as they pass by. They are little works of art, discovered collage pieces.
Gorgeous example and a wonderful way of practicing what @Rob Walker definitely describe as the Art of Noticing.
Maintaining a sense of wonder is the key to having joy
Absolutely!
These collages with own photographs are very interesting.
Thank you! I really appreciate it!
It's the quiet promise that cuts through the static of all our false pretenses. Something that calls to us in the stillness of making things. That brings us back to joy and peace and playfulness.
Something that survives the rubble with softness and subtlety, waiting to be reclaimed."
Your child self.
I feel like we are all the ages we have ever been--maybe all the ages we will ever be--all at once.
No wonder that feels hard most days.
Yes! Exactly! Carlo Rovelli says that "the difference between the past and the future refers only to our own blurred vision of the world." Nothing escapes the gravitational pull of the present. It is the weight and the wonder we are always tied to. Thanks so much!
Was just reading Carlo Rovelli’s White Holes yesterday—full of mind-bending images of time stopping and running backwards! It is an impossible task to get my head around it. Fun to try though.
I know what you mean! White Holes was a struggle for me. I felt like I comprehended so little of it. I think I'll need to reread it a few times, and even then I'm not sure I'll get it, lol.
Sometimes a single nugget is enough to push my imagination to someplace good. Time running backwards just undoes me.
So good! Love his work. I think I'll add it to my reread list this year.