Togetherness

Perfect Beauty. Step-in-step, we

march towards our own

innocence.

Thunderstruck

Reading an excerpt from T.E. Hulme's classic essay, "Romanticism & Classicism," I watched the rain and lightening duke it out in the early morning playground sky. Nestled cozily in bed, my mind seemed to trailed off with the wise words before me. I wrote the following passage below, deeply inspired from the words ..."freshness convinces you, you feel at once when you read something, the artist in a physical state...."

A level of sincerity that speaks in an alerted state is the first experience of creation. Everything I, as an artist see, touch, feel, and romanticize about is first grounded in my-now-moment, the experience that arrests the beauty before me. This creates movement towards language, to capture the just-experienced reality. I have always believed anything felt with sincerity is the beginning point of art. The deep sound of the artist's emotional exuberance felt first, alone in a moment is the inspiration that invites the artist to "turn-around" the experience, from private art to public rendering. The arrest is a pause, often unexpected where the artist withholds judgement of the experience but holds onto to it just long enough to extract the substance of experience. This is the catalyst for art to emerge from within the artist.

Fiber of Life, Tension & Other Discord

Art loves tension. The rubberband of creativity loves the springboard of discord. Without tension, there is no momentum towards resolution. Embrace the agitation in your life! It is the fiber of life that moves creativity!

Free Fall into Art

Let art and language die into each other, uniting and untying, what lives in both.

The Art of Encouragement

We need not always "understand" someone else's art. So long as the art speaks to its creator, our job is to encourage its growth. Movement towards supports our own art so it, too, one day can flower its own blooms.

Negotiating Art & Life

Make room for your art. With practice, you will discover art and life are a single movement. Writing, like all art, teaches one how to breathe life from Life.

god of emptiness

The god of emptiness cometh,

to fill the rapture of our season;

rising ever so close

to meet the depths of our ashes;

worn torn silence once held the broken-ness of our soul,

now moving into the great Circle within." -t4w

Virtual Writer's Studio

My blog serves as a "virtual writer's studio," to reflect on changing elements of current works in progress. Best part - studio is two- step commute from my bedroom. I can go "in to work" anytime and stay as late as I want. The blog-studio contains changing bites, bit-n-pieces, along with "gallery space." Drafts live in the edit workroom until they are ready. Everything is contained in one space, good for tracking. My blog-studio feels like any other workplace. I come here to work, work on work, gather with and around things whose current and future common purpose I am exploring. The virtual workplace invites others with common passion, to join in the conversation, without having to leave their own workrooms! May be technology has a redeeming value after all...

"When art is good, it invites a private conversation." - T4W

The Art of Honesty


In art, honesty is best
Art is the Best Honesty

Honesty is the Best Art

the best is honest

All Art Is Honesty

Honesty is Art

The Gift

I am always amazed at how process appears in "clusters." The reason -- because process seeks relationship to something or someone - ideas cluster together to better help us make new connections. My friend Lisa dropped off a book she felt I MUST read. In The Gift, Lewis Hyde offers a theory of gift exchange and the language around the life of the artist. Art and artists share. A gift he says, is "something that must always move" - it must be passed on. Two economies exist in our culture - the market economy and the gift economy. Art originates in the latter and struggles in the former. Check it out. Not a light or playful read, but thoughtful in the most original way...

"If art acts as an agent of transformation then we may correctly speak of it as a gift." - The Gift, Lewis Hyde

Live in the Questions

"Try to love the questions themselves..don't search for the answers, which could not be given to you now, because you would not be able to live them. And the point is, to live everything. Live the questions now. Perhaps then someday far in the future, you will gradually, without even noticing it, live your way into the answer." - Rainer Maria Rilke

Speaking Into Machine

Speaking into a machine is not easy. Sometimes its too easy. Speakingintoamachinesishorrible?where is the human being?

Artist's Voice

Pablo Casals, the great cellist once said, "inside every artist are two people -- the technician and the interpreter." Nicholas Loren, our daughter's voice teacher, shared this great quote with me. He added, "to the degree the technician is in control, the interpreter can live." The instrument of voice, whether in writing or singing are "both incredibly personal and highly vulnerable." I get it. Writing, not unlike singing, involves deep work before any "interpreter" can emerge.

Nicholas's website, http://www.nicholasloren.com/

On the Writing Life

Writing exists in relationship. As the writing flows, write alongside it. As it informs you, you inform it. Let the new relationship speak to you. As you move towards your writing, let the writing respond, and allow it to move closer towards you.

"To say the same with same words does not constitute progress." - Rilke