"Hold on for dear life my friend."
Peeping Out
"Hold on for dear life my friend."
OUT OF THE GUTTER ART
"Hold on for dear life my friend."
"I am just a memory, dead in the dust, gone like the wisp of smoke that curled from the tip of the gun that killed me..."
Did it hurt? No, of course not. (well, just a wee bit, maybe...) Oh, the joys of waiting to hear if you got the "Call". That's what we artists refer to when we apply for a chance to get into a show, or to paint a mural, or design a sculpture, etc. It's a process …
"We chased the sidewinder, ran with roadrunners. Our feet bled walking empty highways...riding empty boxcars..."
"...Poor, poor Chris...I guess maybe your train finally came..."
"...running to the window, still asleep, she fell thru the glass with a crash..."
"...look into this inner world and I promise I will use my "INSIDE VOICE".
...see what this work has gone thru on it's journey to fruition...
. 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 …
...this post is winding itself around my consciousness like my fairy python-mother...
Sleep has been a constant goal for me since I put down drugs and copious amounts of alcohol. Yet it has been the most evasive and endangered of species, teasing me with scattered glimpses of it's eternal beauty. Oh, how I have longed for it's soothing embrace, and so have everyone I have contact with; …
At times the Artist feels so exposed...so unlike the rest...so isolated from the rest of humankind... She express this as ,"Feeling like I am painted Green".
It has been an enormously trying year and one half, year and 8 months , actually. I have grown SO much since I have lived here in St. Petersburg, I have learned to believe in myself, and in my ability to survive. As An ARTIST. In my own right, I have put in the footwork, stretched …
This painting is Mixed Media on Canvas, 24"x 36" signed and unframed. It is the culmination of months of work and thought, and is now, finally, at a stage I can call finished. I think we have spoken to one another long enough, now I will let it speak to you. There are many ways …
An update on our dear friend Riley!
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