Category: Creativity

• Forgetting the I

  1–2 minutes

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  08/19/2020

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  art, Artistic Excellence, Bipolar Art, Bipolar Disorder, Chronic Depression, Confidence!, Creativity, dreams, Flowers, garden art, garden Photography, gratitude, Hope, Injustice, insomnia, Joy, love, Mania, mental illness

  …icky sticky hugs and kisses that Hurt too much to feel…

  

• Regaining Joy

  1–2 minutes

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  08/14/2020

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  art, Bipolar Art, Confidence!, Creativity, gratitude, Joy, Mania, mental illness, painting, Serenity, Success

  So, So Glad to be feeling like myself again. Taking it easy, not staying inside my head so much. Letting the colors and shapes do the talking…letting the details take the place of the racing thoughts. Dot, dot instead of thought-thought….

• Another Voice in the Night

  1–2 minutes

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  08/11/2020

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  acrylic, art, Art Collectors, Artistic Excellence, Bipolar Art, Bipolar Disorder, career, Confidence!, Covid19, Creativity, dreams, Employment, gift, gratitude, Handicapped, Hope, hospice

  I was finally motivated to produce my second painting in the “Inside Voice”series. Although I am beset physically with devastating exhaustion, I was able this past week to get some work done. This is very encouraging, I have been fighting the fully immersing fatigue that envelops me each morning. .  I dosed myself up with…

• I Miss What I Imagined I would Miss

  2–3 minutes

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  08/03/2020

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  alzheimers, art, Art Collectors, Artistic Excellence, Best, Bipolar Art, Cancer, caregiving, Chronic Depression, clean, concrete art, Confidence!, Covid19, Creativity, death, Denial, disability, dreams, Eternal Life, Excellence, faith, Finances, Flashbacks, Found Objects, garden art, garden Photography, gift, God, gratitude, grief, Handicapped, Hope, hospice, Injustice, insomnia, Investing in Art, Joy, learning, love, Making Money, Mania, Master, mental illness, metamorphosis, artist, love, change, recovery, rebirth, Mixed Media, mothers, moving day, moving on, out of the gutter, pain, painting, paradise Earth, promises, Psychiatrist, PTSD, Ransom sacrifice, re-purposed, Real Life, Recovery, Healing, recycled, recycled art, repentance, repurposed, Salvation, Saving Money, Serenity, Shame and Guilt, shih-tzus, sobriety, Success, Teaching, The Bible, Therapy, treasures, Uncategorized, Universal Sovereign

  …the room seems to awaken with her…golden rays fall…like the petals of an opening rose…

  

• “INSIDE VOICE” a New Series of Works

  3–5 minutes

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  08/01/2020

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  acrylic, art, Art Collectors, Artistic Excellence, Best, Bipolar Art, Bipolar Disorder, career, caregiving, Childhood sexual abuse, Chronic Depression, clean, Confidence!, Creativity, death, Denial, disability, dreams, Employment, Excellence, faith, Finances, Flashbacks, full moon, photograph, pictures, digital photo art, custom art, learning , new ways to create, layout, publish, expand , giving, talent,into the new, outofthegutterart.com, garden art, garden Photography, gift, God, gratitude, Handicapped, Hope, hospice, identity, identity theft, Injustice, insomnia, Investing in Art, Job, Joy, learning, love, Making Money, Mania, Master, mental illness, metamorphosis, artist, love, change, recovery, rebirth, Mixed Media, Mood Swings, mothers, out of the gutter, pain, painting, poems, promises, Psychiatrist, PTSD, re-purposed, Real Life, Recovery, Healing, recycled, recycled art, repentance, repurposed, Salvation, Serenity, Sex abuse, sexual assault, Shame and Guilt, sobriety, Success, Teaching, Therapy, Top, Uncategorized

  “…look into this inner world and I promise I will use my “INSIDE VOICE”.

  

• LANDFALL(In the Garden of my Father)

  1–2 minutes

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  07/24/2020

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  acrylic, art, Art Collectors, Artistic Excellence, Best, Bipolar Art, Bipolar Disorder, Confidence!, Creativity, Denial, disability, dreams, Excellence, Flashbacks, Flowers, garden art, gift, gratitude, grief, Hope, identity, Injustice, insomnia, Investing in Art, Job, Joy, learning, love, Mania, Master, mental illness, metamorphosis, artist, love, change, recovery, rebirth, Mixed Media, moving day, moving on, out of the gutter, pain, painting, promises, Psychiatrist, PTSD, Real Life, Recovery, Healing, recycled, recycled art, repurposed, Saving Money, sobriety, Success, Teaching, Therapy, Uncategorized

  …see what this work has gone thru on it’s journey to fruition…

  

• Fighting

  1–2 minutes

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  07/14/2020

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  art, Bipolar Art, Confidence!, Creativity

  Cats outside, raising a ruckus, peeing on everything .   I wash it off. .   Dog inside, rolling with glee, woops! she takes a pee .   I clean it up. .   I’m so tired, clumsy and hungry, spilling my juice, ants come .   I kill them all. .   Round we go, round and round, cleaning and…

  

• The Journey, a Debut Art Video

  3–5 minutes

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  07/08/2020

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  art, Art Collectors, Artistic Excellence, Best, Bipolar Art, Bipolar Disorder, Cancer, career, caregiving, Childhood sexual abuse, Chronic Depression, clean, Confidence!, Creativity, death, Denial, digital art, disability, dreams, faith, Flashbacks, full moon, photograph, pictures, digital photo art, custom art, learning , new ways to create, layout, publish, expand , giving, talent,into the new, outofthegutterart.com, garden Photography, gift, God, gratitude, grief, Handicapped, Hope, hospice, identity, Injustice, insomnia, Jehovah God, Joy, love, Mania, mental illness, metamorphosis, artist, love, change, recovery, rebirth, Mixed Media, mothers, pain, painting, Photography, poems, promises, Psychiatrist, PTSD, re-purposed, Recovery, Healing, repentance, Resurrection, Serenity, Sex abuse, sexual assault, sobriety, Success, Teaching, Therapy, treasures, Uncategorized, Vigil

    .  This project was a couple years in the making for me, and was born from the bottomless grief I was dealing with then. As caregiver to both of my parents after a 23 year-long active addiction, and after a devestating breakup of my marriage when my ex went to Federal Prison, I was…