Category: Flashbacks
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A Message to Myself
2–3 minutes·
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…from a year ago… I have been crying again. here, there everywhere. Are these tears sure indicators of a heart? if indeed they are, is it a good one? A kind one? A redeemable one? Who knows the answer, but my God. I used to think I knew who I was, I thought of myself…
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Dead Tired
1–2 minutes·
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Oh Joyful heart, where are you today? From so much light I now feel only pain. Where did my optimism run away to hide, Why now this dread that cannot be denied? She thought she had come away unscathed, from the turmoil, the abuse …and rage. But disease was just below the surface all along,…
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Faces I see, Dreams of Me
1–2 minutes·
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Painting My Heart Out
2–3 minutes·
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acrylic, art, Art Collectors, Artistic Excellence, Best, Bipolar Art, Bipolar Disorder, Birds, Birds,, career, Childhood sexual abuse, clean, Confidence!, Creativity, death, disability, dreams, Excellence, Flashbacks, gift, gratitude, grief, identity, Impressionist, Injustice, Investing in Art, Joy, learning, love, Mania, Master, mental illness, Mixed Media, Mixed media, outsider art, pain, painting, Prostitution, Psychiatrist, PTSD, Ransom sacrifice, Recovery, Healing, repentance, repurposed, Serenity, Sex abuse, sexual assault, Shame and Guilt, sobriety, Surrealism, Therapy, TransformationWoo Hoo ! I am an artist WHIRLWIND again! Hang on, cause art is flowing out of me in a torrent, and I need more hands. I am happy to be out of “funk town” for a while! I entered six shows in the past month and now have 5 paintings accepted into these shows…
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The Hurrier I Go…
2–3 minutes·
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acrylic, art, Art Collectors, Artistic Excellence, Bipolar Art, Bipolar Disorder, Chronic Depression, clean, Confidence!, Covid19, Creativity, death, dreams, Flashbacks, garden art, Garden art,, gift, grief, Handicapped, Hope, identity, Impressionist, Injustice, insomnia, learning, love, Mania, mental illness, metamorphosis, artist, love, change, recovery, rebirth, Mixed media, Mood Swings, out of the gutter, outsider art, pain, painting, promises, Psychiatrist, PTSD, Recovery, Healing, repentance, self worth, Sex abuse, sexual assault, sobriety, Success, Surrealism, Therapy, whimsical artTHE BEHINDER I GET How true, how true that Pennsylvania Dutch saying is. I squander my art endeavors, rushing from this deadline to that, frazzled, befuddled and unsatisfied. That may be what drove Van Gogh insane, the constant turmoil to do better. I am making the presumption that perhaps the rapid cycling Bipolar Disorder that…
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IN the Mirror
1–2 minutes·
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acrylic, Addiction, Anorexia/Bulemia, art, Artistic Excellence, Bipolar Art, Bipolar Disorder, Childhood sexual abuse, Chronic Depression, Confidence!, Creativity, Denial, disability, Excellence, faith, Flashbacks, gratitude, identity, Impressionist, Joy, learning, love, Mania, mental illness, Mixed media, out of the gutter, outsider art, pain, painting, Psychiatrist, PTSD, re-purposed, Recovery, Healing, Self harm, self worth, Sex abuse, sexual assault, Shame and Guilt, sobriety, Success, Surrealism, Therapy, Transformation, Vigil, voyagesrecognizing my BIPOLAR self image I’m in “Wonderland” right now. Been here for a week or so. Time seems to be inching by, my head too heavy to lift off the pillow. Not sick physically, I’m just…just…what can I tell you? I have had some unknown trigger going me headlong into a timewarp. Into a…
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Birds of Paradise
3–4 minutes·
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art, Art Collectors, Artistic Excellence, Bipolar Art, Bipolar Disorder, Birds, Creativity, death, digital art, disability, dreams, faith, Flashbacks, garden art, gift, gratitude, grief, Hope, identity, Joy, love, Mania, mental illness, Mixed media, pain, Photography, PTSD, Recovery, Healing, Transformation, whimsical art“…running to the window, still asleep, she fell thru the glass with a crash…”
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Eating Art
2–4 minutes·
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I eat a lot of my art. Great flow, free strokes, endless imagination…stuffed in my spare bedroom. “What spare bedroom?” You have a right to ask, especially when the door is always shut, the cat box takes center stage, there is no sign of any bed and the entire perimiter is taken up with painted…
Out of the Gutter Art 