Category: art
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Home, a place I used to run away from. (Doe, a deer, a female deer…) It felt like Prison to my adolescent heart that yearned for escape. From all the anger and bitterness, all the dislike we harbored for each other. And run I did, but still tethered to the safety net of a Mother…
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Hello, my friends. I am hoping that you are doing well, enduring this Pandemic with a sense of inner peace and compassion for other human beings. Now is a time when I pull on all my strength from sources I have long depended on to get me through major trauma and trials. My love…
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The Unveiling!
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Shall I call it “UNBAGGING”? I told you that you would never guess my source photo, in the last post’s images. Well here it is: . Here’s the deal: I was ready to take Kleo for her daily walk, mask on, prepared to face the outside world. I had just finished watching (another) horrible newscast…
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I Don’t Feel Very Good.
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art, Art Collectors, Artistic Excellence, Best, Bipolar Art, Bipolar Disorder, Confidence!, Creativity, Denial, digital art, disability, Employment, Excellence, faith, garden art, gift, Hope, identity, insomnia, love, Mania, mental illness, Mixed Media, moving day, moving on, out of the gutter, pain, painting, Photography, promises, Psychiatrist, PTSD, Real Life, Recovery, Healing, recycled, recycled art, Saving Money, Sex abuse, Success, treasures, VigilCan you dig it? I am sure most all of you can, gentle readers. You can probably deduce from my latest posts that my creative powers seem rather discombobulated. I would have to agree with you. The “SITUATION” certainly has a dampening effect on my spirit; whereas I used to force myself to get…
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Imagination LOCKDOWN
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Dear Friends, I woke up this morning believing the world was fine, normal. I had no thought of a world on lockdown for a few fleeting seconds. . Then, as was wont to happen after my Mom’s death, the awful reality came down on my brain like a sledgehammer. It did actually stop me in…
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MAKING ART to QUIET MY NERVES!!!
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art, Art Collectors, Best, Bipolar Art, Bipolar Disorder, caregiving, Chronic Depression, Confidence!, Creativity, digital art, Excellence, Flashbacks, garden art, garden Photography, gratitude, grief, Handicapped, Hope, identity, Injustice, Job, Joy, love, Making Money, Mania, mental illness, Mixed Media, pain, painting, Photography, promises, Psychiatrist, PTSD, re-purposed, Real Life, Recovery, Healing, recycled, recycled art, repurposed, Saving Money, Serenity, shih-tzus, Success, TherapyI don’t know about you , but I’ll starting to feel it…It’s like a weak electric current close to the floor , strengthening as each day passes… More awful news, more isolation and “distancing”-the current gets a little stronger moving to the top of my legs now. I’m getting antsy, and even though I have…
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Impressionist, Expressionist, Bauhaus, Abstract, Figurative Abstract, Cubism, Realism, Dadaism…schism-wizzem… I could do exercises to l-o-o-s-e-n up… Or I could be more squinched up and detail (read OCD) oriented…I could dress in wispy Bohemian garb (I already do!) or I could button my shirt all the way to the top and frown at everyone like Egon…
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Trapped in Time
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art, Art Collectors, Artistic Excellence, Best, Bipolar Art, Bipolar Disorder, career, Childhood sexual abuse, Chronic Depression, clean, Confidence!, Creativity, disability, Excellence, faith, Flashbacks, Found Objects, garden art, garden Photography, gift, God, gratitude, grief, Handicapped, Hope, identity, Injustice, insomnia, Joy, learning, love, Mania, mental illness, metamorphosis, artist, love, change, recovery, rebirth, Mixed Media, out of the gutter, pain, painting, promises, Psychiatrist, PTSD, re-purposed, Real Life, Recovery, Healing, Serenity, Sex abuse, sexual assault, Shame and Guilt, sobriety, Success, Teaching, Therapy, treasures“Emotional Stuckness, thats a common ailment…”
Out of the Gutter Art 
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