Category: insomnia

• A Freewheeling Frenzy!

  1–2 minutes

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  10/23/2020

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  acrylic, art, Art Collectors, Artistic Excellence, Best, Bipolar Art, Bipolar Disorder, clean, Confidence!, Creativity, disability, dreams, Excellence, gift, gratitude, Handicapped, Hope, Impressionist, insomnia, Job, Joy, learning, love, Mania, Marketing Stategy, mental illness, metamorphosis, artist, love, change, recovery, rebirth, Mixed Media, Mixed media, Oil, out of the gutter, pain, painting, Psychiatrist, PTSD, Real Life, Recovery, Healing, recycled art, repurposed, Retirement,, Saving Money, sobriety, Success, Surrealism, Therapy, Top, treasures, Uncategorized, voyages

  I have to get the mix just right: a smidgen of anxiety, a pinch of hunger, a good dose of caffeine and just about 48 hours without sleep and *BAM*! The NY creative lightning strikes! Tonight was the night, today was the day, cleaning off my museum pieces with fine brushes, repairing and sprucing up…

• Yellow Belly.

  1–2 minutes

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  10/04/2020

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  acrylic, art, Art Collectors, Artistic Excellence, Best, Bipolar Art, Bipolar Disorder, Cancer, career, caregiving, cats, concrete art, Confidence!, Creativity, digital art, disability, dreams, Eternal Life, Excellence, faith, Flashbacks, Found Objects, garden art, garden Photography, gift, God, gratitude, grief, HighFinance, Hope, hospice, identity, Impressionist, insomnia, Investing in Art, Joy, learning, love, Mania, Master, mental illness, metamorphosis, artist, love, change, recovery, rebirth, Mixed Media, Mood Swings, moving day, moving on, Murals, oceans, Oil, out of the gutter, outsider art, pain, Psychiatrist, PTSD, Recovery, Healing, recycled, recycled art, Success, Surrealism, Teaching, Therapy, Uncategorized, Vigil, voyages

  …Random Words, Targeted Pain….Red, Yellow, Green and Brown Pain…White Pain…My Pain…

  

• Starting Over, Over Again

  1–2 minutes

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  09/29/2020

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  art, Artistic Excellence, Bipolar Art, Bipolar Disorder, Chronic Depression, clean, Creativity, digital art, disability, dreams, Excellence, faith, Flashbacks, garden art, gift, gratitude, grief, Handicapped, Hope, identity, Injustice, insomnia, Joy, love, Mania, mental illness, metamorphosis, artist, love, change, recovery, rebirth, Mixed Media, Murals, out of the gutter, outsider art, pain, painting, poems, Psychiatrist, PTSD, re-purposed, Recovery, Healing, recycled art, sexual assault, Shame and Guilt, sobriety, Success, Therapy, Uncategorized

  “… can you see me going mad in here?…”

  

• Over the Humpty-Dump

  1–2 minutes

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  09/17/2020

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  acrylic, art, Art Collectors, Artistic Excellence, Assemblage, Best, Bipolar Art, digital art, Excellence, Hope, insomnia, learning, love, Mania, mental illness, metamorphosis, artist, love, change, recovery, rebirth, moving day, moving on, outsider art, pain, painting, paradise Earth, PTSD, Recovery, Healing, recycled, recycled art, repurposed, shih-tzus, Surrealism, Therapy, treasures

  Oh, the fun of a downward spiral…After a week or two of just mind blowing energy and creativity, comes the inevitable crash. This time it was about a week of doldrums, pain, negativity and actual physical illness, all of which I attribute to this illness called Bipolar Disorder. The worst part of a depressive episode,…

  

• “Party Girl”

  1–2 minutes

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  09/08/2020

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  art, Art Collectors, Artistic Excellence, Best, Bipolar Art, Bipolar Disorder, Confidence!, Creativity, dreams, Excellence, Flashbacks, gratitude, Hope, identity, insomnia, Joy, love, Mania, mental illness, metamorphosis, artist, love, change, recovery, rebirth, Mixed Media, Mood Swings, out of the gutter, pain, painting, poems, promises, PTSD, re-purposed, Real Life, Recovery, Healing, Serenity, sexual assault, sobriety, Success, Teaching, Therapy, Uncategorized

  

• Transported.

  1–2 minutes

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  09/07/2020

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  art, Artistic Excellence, Best, Bipolar Art, Bipolar Disorder, Childhood sexual abuse, Chronic Depression, Creativity, Denial, disability, dreams, Flashbacks, gift, gratitude, grief, Handicapped, Hope, identity, insomnia, Mania, mental illness, out of the gutter, pain, Real Life, Recovery, Healing, Sex abuse, sexual assault, Shame and Guilt, sobriety, Therapy

  “Why am I small again, lost again?”

  

• 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…

  

• 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…