Here is another poem by St. John on the cross that really touched me… Do they prove anything to you, these tears? All that I had I laid outside that door where I was told you lived, and someone took those gifts, was it you? Were they that worthless that no thanks was given? That […]
It took a while but finally…
I will be participating in “A Night of Devotion” (kirtan, paintings, photography) at the Electric Lodge in Venice, CA. The event is on Thursday, September the 10th from 7pm to 11pm. Special feature: Hathaway’s new album release. Special guests are Trevor Hall and K.B. Solomon. The paintings will show for the days after the event […]
lazy afternoonwatching the birds on the feeder(“Wallie”, the magpie who used to come to the kitchen window has found himself his first girlfriend and doesn’t think hand feeding is cool any more, at least not when she is looking :-)) last days of filling the potbelly stove (an art in itself)the smell of wood fires […]
acrylic on canvas,18 x 24 inch (46 x 61 cm)
Still reading St John of the Cross and his “dark night of the soul”… Into the darkness of the nightWith heartache kindled with love,O blessed chance!I went out unobserved,My house being wrapped in sleep. In the darkness, and yet safe,By secret ladder and in disguise,O blessed chance!In darkness, and in secret, I crept out,My house […]
Very often it happens that the final painting (above top) looks nothing like it started (below)….
HOW COULD A LOVER FALL? What could have caused your grip to weaken that allowed creation to be? How could a lover fall to his death from the arms of infinite strength? How active are you in the mind sustaining such a great wall that the sun can cast a frightening shadow the world believes. […]
Wondering about why Jesus and St. John were suffering so much, and if they had a choice why they choose to suffer, until came across this… Why this universe does not take place according to my choice . . .“You desire for something, it does not happen . . . are you Shiva?I don’t like […]
acrylic on canvas,18 x 18 inch (46 x 46 cm)
Watched “The Passion of Christ” for the second time around and still couldn’t stand it, had to walk out a couple of times crying. Just too gory in the details, but it sure gives you a feeling of how it must have been… And just like a parallel the other day I was reading about […]
My friend Sarah reminded me of the book, “the van gogh blues”, by Eric Maisel, which I was reading a while ago, and which impressed me at that time. I think one of his approaches to the depression and creative downtimes that every artist experiences from time to time was that as an artist we […]
I hate showing unfinished work. But then again it might be a very good treatment for my ego to show those ugly beginnings… 😉 This one has a story that will have to be told when it is finished…
Seems like my inspiration and output in painting has been lessened lately. And I remember Elisabeth Gilberts (in her TED talk) suggesting that we shouldn’t beat ourselves up and put that much demand on our little Self. She reminds us of the Muse that used to visit artists in the old ages. Realized I haven’t […]
June gloom weather… makes me wanna just crawl into my ‘cave’ and meditate… trying to escape uncertainty… being the only constant unchanging feature in life… it dawns on me that the only way out aint pretty or any less painful than where I am right now 😉 It’s probably going to be more like Mirabai […]
Heart-strings – The pain has helped me heal. It’s all connected, the pain, the sacredness, the fruitful opening of it all, like a pomegranate. Then moving on… with a song in the background.
Gelassenheit means “releasement” or “letting go.” The term is an old one in German intellectual history, from the theologizing of Meister Eckhart (1260-1327) to the religious thought of Reform Anabaptists and early modern mystics, to its 20th-century revival in the philosophy of Martin Heidegger. “Make a start with yourself, and abandon yourself. Truly, if you […]
Still reveling in Meister Eckhart’s words: “To be right, a person must do one of two things; either he must learn to have God in his work and hold fast to him there, or he must give up his work altogether. Since however, man cannot live without activities that are both human and various, we […]
“When there is misunderstanding; when misunderstanding is manifested all over the world, misunderstanding everywhere.The remedy is in my hands, that brute has nothing to do with that. The remedy is in His [Gods] hands, he is watching that.This misunderstanding, He creates that misunderstanding, He manifests that misunderstanding. Then by his own free choice, at the […]
Something was still missing 😉 The sprout that sprouts from the hand into one day a giant tree. acrylic on canvas, 18 x 18 inch (46 x 46 cm)
acrylic on canvas,18 x 18 inch (46 x 46 cm)
Timely reading: Meister Eckhart in German, which I should have read a long time ago. Brilliantly put in words, clear, and filled of the highest monistic thought (like Kashmir Shaivism), and with a wonderful touch of down to earth-ness. And the first thing in one of the books (Meister Eckhart Mystische Schriften and with original […]
My friend Doni took some professional photos of the latest paintings, and I have been able to upload them to redbubble, an art website that offers prints on demands in all sizes, postcards etc. Have a look… http://www.redbubble.com/people/claudiadose and let me know what you think.
I met you, a lizard, in the loYou stared at me the same way tooMoments, minutes, time stood still. I blew a kiss and our souls merged in aweYour eyes blinking as if you understood it allSmall feet, frozen, melting my big heart. When finally you lifted up your head and leftI wondered when I […]
How then can we argue? having lunch in a field one day, I troubled an ant with a question. I asked of him humbly. “Have you ever been to Paris?” and he replied, “No but I wouldn’t mind going.” and then he asked me if I had ever been to a famous ant city. And […]
We have been busy preparing for the Birthday Celebration of our spiritual teacher, and a retreat following it. It’s been different this year without our chief cook, organizer and my “partner in crime,” but we managed surprising well and everyone had a chance to help so much more this time. Except we forgot to let […]
The feet of a master have been associated with his connection to the ground and as such there is a certain gratitude and reverence for them to connect us with the higher realms here on this earth. In this painting I tried to capture this connection of the sacred among with the earth, water and […]
