Category: art
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An Awakening
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art, Bipolar Art, Bipolar Disorder, Childhood sexual abuse, Chronic Depression, clean, concrete art, Confidence!, Creativity, death, disability, faith, Found Objects, garden art, gift, God, gratitude, grief, Hope, identity, Injustice, insomnia, Joy, learning, love, Mania, mental illness, metamorphosis, artist, love, change, recovery, rebirth, Mixed Media, moving day, moving on, out of the gutter, pain, painting, poems, promises, Psychiatrist, PTSD, Real Life, Recovery, Healing, recycled art, Serenity, Sex abuse, sexual assault, Shame and Guilt, sobriety, Success, Therapy, VigilSleep has been a constant goal for me since I put down drugs and copious amounts of alcohol. Yet it has been the most evasive and endangered of species, teasing me with scattered glimpses of it’s eternal beauty. Oh, how I have longed for it’s soothing embrace, and so have everyone I have contact with;…
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Feeling at War with Myself
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art, Bipolar Art, Bipolar Disorder, Childhood sexual abuse, Chronic Depression, Denial, disability, Flashbacks, gratitude, grief, Handicapped, identity, insomnia, mental illness, metamorphosis, artist, love, change, recovery, rebirth, mothers, out of the gutter, pain, painting, promises, Psychiatrist, PTSD, re-purposed, Real Life, Recovery, Healing, Sex abuse, sexual assault, Shame and Guilt, shih-tzus, sobriety, TherapyI have been languishing here, letting myself fall off the edge of sanity for a while. Is it physical?emotional?spiritual? No, not spiritual, for I feel close to my Creator. I just feel diminished, somehow, like my life’s blood has been watered down. Perhaps when the rainy season ends I will blossom again. Till then, my…
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I am making myself see the beauty I can create in the hopes of making myself feel good again…
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I love to paint old furniture. Old, unloved, forlorn furniture. Abandoned. While my efforts are earnest, I don’t adhere to and “discipline”, such as Tole painting. I love the results of timeless beauty where this discipline is used. But there is something of a rebel in me, an impatient, free-wheeling force to be reckoned with.…
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I hope this place I am in passes quickly by…i am in a sad place, and feel immobilized. This too shall pass:
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The Duality of My Artistic Self
3–5 minutes·
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art, Artistic Excellence, Best, Bipolar Art, Bipolar Disorder, Chronic Depression, Creativity, disability, Excellence, faith, Flashbacks, gift, God, gratitude, Handicapped, Hope, Injustice, insomnia, learning, love, Mania, mental illness, metamorphosis, artist, love, change, recovery, rebirth, Mood Swings, pain, painting, Psychiatrist, PTSD, Real Life, Recovery, Healing, repurposed, Serenity, sobriety, Success, Therapy, treasuresDepicting my own image has been a starting point my work from the beginning. As a child my drawings were always of female faces, although I never consciously realized these were reflections of me. Even then, in my earliest work, the duality of my nature is blatantly apparent. . The faces I drew were always…
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Found a bunch of image files, when I was first experimenting with digital editing…enjoy!
Out of the Gutter Art 
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