"…a revolt against mediocrity searching a way towards the unknown…"

Illimite cosmique 1999 (c) Jean Miotte 

Cosmique 1972 (c) Jean Miotte

I have oft though of glass and clay as sister arts…today I want to share that thought with you, through the art of Maria Ines Vaerla and some word play from me:

Earth Fire Air Water
Earth Water Air Fire
Sisters Glass and Clay
 
Together they spiral
Together they spin
Sisters Glass and Clay
 
Spark [...]

Once upon a time, when I lived in Australia, I began to write some children’s books - for ages 5-8….and those who read with them. The first that came out (a good 3years ago) was "A Message To Send"*
You can keep reading on for more about the story, and the backstory 
OR if you simply can’t wait, you [...]

I don’t read enough poetry. Or write enough. Somewhere I have a bit of an anthology loosely titled "of mirrors and mississipi rhyme". Poetry is at once, so big and so small…the dance between the edge and beyond…the visible and invisible. If the world we live in today is described by the thinkers and artists [...]

Been thinking about patterns and stories and…thought I would post these quotes to tag to some of the links / people that come up

"A pattern has an integrity independent of the medium by virtue of which you have received the information that it exists. Each of the chemical elements is a pattern integrity. Each individual [...]

"Fuss has most often made unique images with a simple process that completely eliminates the camera – a photogram…."
Source

Invocation, 1992
This is the second time I have posted Adam Fuss’s images. He is one of my favourite photographers - discovered thanks to a photography teacher, Simone, several years ago…folding back into my new thoughts on visuals and storytelling always [...]

Today and the last week’s AND has been a thinking about Caterpillar AND Butterfly.

Background: I have been playing with the word "AND" for almost a year now. It seems to be the nicest (re-)addition to my vocaluarly, where possible replacing But. For example, what if we centralized AND decentralized the banking sector? That is great [...]

Nothing new - again. This post is about reminding myself/us what we, and the ancient humans, already knew/know - visuals are KEY!

I have been musing on using visuals to explain my work - hand drawn, digital, photos, comic…whatever. In part because visuals tell stories that skip to our right brain - safely sidestepping away from the [...]

please be aware this may not make sense yet - as I am still making sense of my day and lessons, but I wanted to post what was emerging…
Today has been a VERY long day. And I haven’t been awake for more than 11hours yet!
It should, by all accounts, be a bad day. It very [...]

“As I dig for wild orchidsIn the autumn fields.It is the deeply bedded rootthat I desire,Not the flower.”- Izumi Shikibu, Japan (974-1034)

The strength of a tree is defined by its roots [paraphrased Rabbi Simon Jacobson]
"A man is a bumdle of relations, a knot of roots, whose flower and fruitage is the world" - Ralph W Emerson, [...]