Category: metamorphosis, artist, love, change, recovery, rebirth

• 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…

  

• FAIL…SAFE?

  2–3 minutes

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  10/02/2020

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  acrylic, art, Art Collectors, Artistic Excellence, Bipolar Art, Bipolar Disorder, Confidence!, Creativity, digital art, Excellence, Flashbacks, garden art, God, gratitude, Hope, Joy, learning, love, Mania, mental illness, Mixed Media, Mood Swings, outsider art, pain, painting, PTSD, Recovery, Healing, recycled art, repentance, Serenity, Success, Teaching, Therapy, Uncategorized

  “…a drive to put what is playing on my internal projector out into the real world, for others to see…”

  

• 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

  

• All Writey Now

  1–2 minutes

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  09/02/2020

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  art, Art Collectors, Artistic Excellence, Best, Bipolar Art, Bipolar Disorder, Confidence!, Creativity, death, disability, dreams, Employment, Excellence, faith, gratitude, Handicapped, Hope, identity, Job, learning, Mania, mental illness, metamorphosis, artist, love, change, recovery, rebirth, Mixed Media, Mood Swings, pain, painting, promises, Psychiatrist, PTSD, Real Life, Serenity, sobriety, Therapy, voyages

  …seems to be less like a monkey…more like a huge Brahma that has lain down, groaning and farting…

• The Door is Wide Open

  1–2 minutes

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  08/26/2020

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  acrylic, art, Art Collectors, Artistic Excellence, Bipolar Art, Bipolar Disorder, Cancer, caregiving, cats, Childhood sexual abuse, Chronic Depression, concrete art, Confidence!, Covid19, Creativity, death, digital art, dreams, Flashbacks, Found Objects, garden art, Injustice, Joy, learning, love, mental illness, metamorphosis, artist, love, change, recovery, rebirth, Mood Swings

  There are ideas percolating just beneath the surface of my consciousness. They are not fully fleshed out but the juices are flowing and I feel “on the verge” of a breakout work. What is a ‘breakout work’ you ask? Well, I’m asking too, and I believe there is a new direction coming. I have been…