Category: PTSD

• Eating Art

  2–4 minutes

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  12/20/2020

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  Addiction, art, Bipolar Art, Bipolar Disorder, career, Creativity, Denial, disability, dreams, Flashbacks, learning, Mania, mental illness, Mixed media, out of the gutter, outsider art, pain, PTSD, Recovery, Healing, sobriety, Success

  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…

  

• RESOLVING THE COMMISSION DILEMMA

  2–3 minutes

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  12/13/2020

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  acrylic, art, Art Collectors, Artistic Excellence, Assemblage, Bipolar Art, Bipolar Disorder, concrete art, Creativity, digital art, dreams, Excellence, Finances, Flowers, garden art, gift, gratitude, Handicapped, Hope, identity, Injustice, insomnia, Investing in Art, Job, Joy, learning, Making Money, Management, Mania, Marketing Stategy, mental illness, Mixed Media, Mood Swings, moving day, moving on, Murals, out of the gutter, pain, painting, promises, PTSD, recycled art, repurposed, Saving Money, sobriety, Success, Therapy, treasures

  Stuck in the Barnyard “OLD McDONALD HAD A COMMISSION…Oh no, Oh no, Oh no……” So, I had a “Patron”, and I am envisioning a relationship similar to Michaelangelo had with The Pope.. Endless coffers, freedom of expression in my own magnificent style, expensive dining and and more and more projects to work on. What a…

  

• It’s Just Me…

  2–3 minutes

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  11/19/2020

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  art, Bipolar Disorder, Chronic Depression, Confidence!, Creativity, Denial, gift, God, gratitude, identity, learning, love, Mania, mental illness, metamorphosis, artist, love, change, recovery, rebirth, mothers, moving day, moving on, out of the gutter, pain, promises, PTSD, Real Life, Recovery, Healing, repentance, repurposed, Serenity, sobriety, Success, Therapy, Uncategorized, voyages

  “He bandaged my broken hands that had beaten down my own hopes…”

  

• AM I FAMOUS YET?

  2–4 minutes

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  11/12/2020

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  art, Best, Bipolar Art, Bipolar Disorder, caregiving, cats, Childhood sexual abuse, Chronic Depression, Creativity, disability, Employment, Finances, Flashbacks, gift, gratitude, Handicapped, Hope, identity, Injustice, insomnia, Joy, love, Mania, Master, mental illness, Mixed Media, Mixed media, out of the gutter, pain, painting, PTSD, Recovery, Healing, recycled art, Serenity, shih-tzus, sobriety, Teaching, Therapy

  “…I was a rebel…not knowing thousands of feet had gone down that same road days…months…centuries before…”

  

• Are You Confused?

  2–3 minutes

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  10/27/2020

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  acrylic, art, Art Collectors, Artistic Excellence, Best, Bipolar Art, Bipolar Disorder, Childhood sexual abuse, Confidence!, Covid19, Creativity, death, disability, dreams, Excellence, Flashbacks, Flowers, Garden art,, garden Photography, gift, God, gratitude, Hope, horses, Impressionist, Injustice, insomnia, learning, Making Money, Management, Mania, metamorphosis, artist, love, change, recovery, rebirth, Mixed media, Oil, outsider art, pain, painting, poems, promises, Psychiatrist, PTSD, re-purposed, Recovery, Healing, recycled art, shih-tzus, voyages, whimsical art

  Who Was I Then? Am I Now? Who Will I Become? I know that we change, it is a natural thing. I’m not hung up on the aging process… the CREATIVE PROCESS is where my interest lies. My creative life ebbs and flows like the ocean, like my moods, like my illness… Must I always…

  

• 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…”