On a lazy Sunday afternoon . . .
sketching . . .
Filling the creative well…
Getting out and about visiting friends in Berkley and Santa Cruz, just cruising 😉 and “filling up the creative well”. Julia Cameron writes about that in her book “The Artist Way“, she calls them “artist dates” and I have been neglecting them lately. I always somehow get to do my writing in the morning, but […]
Hiking
I love hiking! I just don’t like the part of getting up early, and here in LA you have to get up early as sitting in traffic would just defeat the purpose and you come back with lungs full of bad air again. So I drag myself out of bed and walk… it’s so rewarding. […]
exited beyond words…
Harmony by Remedios Varo, so detailed! In the beginning of this month I was lucky to make it to the last day of the exhibit “In Wonderland: The Surrealist Adventures of Women Artists in Mexico and the United States,” at LACMA. It was amazing and beyond words. So now, belated and slowly settling down, I […]
rainbow
The soul would have no rainbow if the eyes had no tears. ~Native American Proverb I have been tricked by flying too close to what I thought I loved. Now the candleflame is out, the wine spilled, and the lovers have withdrawn somewhere beyond my squinting. The amount I thought I’d won, I’ve lost. My […]
Re-thinking…
Have you ever wondered about the meaning of your life? Would you say we are “creating” it, or do you rather refer to it as a “search” or quest? In the face of the vastness (and the disasters) of this universe how do you deal with the realization of how small and fragile and insignificant […]
Walk with me…
Having some amazing time Down Under, marveling about life and death and the impermanence of it all and yet how persistent live hangs on to live and keeps on going and doing… Just look at all those tiny balls made by crabs on the beach what a huge work of art it is for those […]
Fragile
This painting was a result of seeing an article about a teen mother trying to smother her baby. It totally stunned me and I wasn’t quite able to comprehend what motivated her. So I painted. Just the other day I was watching a video on TED by Alexander Tsiaras: Conception to birth — visualized, what a miracle […]
softly being hit on the head :-)
After finishing the recent painting “Listen with the ear of your heart “been thinking what “listen” really means. And even though meditating seems very nice and peaceful, still I am often wondering if I am doing what God wants me to do or how much of is ego based and selfish. It’s been a whirlwind […]
“Listen with the ear of your heart” ~ St. Benedict
acrylic and collage on canvas, unframed H12 x W12 x depth 2 inch (30,5 x 30,5 x 5cm) I intuitively added the SW direction to it without knowing why. Later I found some meaning that explains that the direction in the left corner (South West) has a strong connection with hearing and listening. Wow! This […]
scars… (experiments in Photoshop)
Inspired by those easy Instagram Filters for Photoshop (thanks to Daniel Box) started playing with a photo (old and new scars) in Photoshop . . . . just for fun 🙂
Knowing Who then i would kiss…
I really like Rabia and her poetry… Ironic, but one of the most intimate acts of our body is death. So beautiful appeared my death – knowing Who then i would kiss, i died a thousand times before i died. “Die before you die,” said the Prophet Muhammad. Have wings that feared ever touched the […]
What’s on my chest…
…tulips and other things sprouting 🙂 A spontaneous mood painting. I like it that way at the moment. acrylic and collage on canvas 12 x 12 inch (30,5 x 30,5cm)
Everything is gestation and then birthing.
Sometimes when we don’t quite understand what the world is trying to tell us, or we are not quite sure where a painting is taking us, it helps to remember that… “Everything is gestation and then birthing. To let each impression and each embryo of a feeling come to completion, entirely in itself, in the […]
How long will this go on?
Yesterday, at dawn, passing by, the Beloved said to me, “Youare distraught and unaware; how long will this go on? My cheek is the envy of the rose; and have you filled your eyewith heart’s blood in quest of the thorn?” I said, “Before your stature the cypress is but a sapling!” I said,“Before your […]
“The Cocoon”, new painting
Like many of my paintings this painting developed intuitively, which means rather than having a preconceived idea I let the painting evolve intuitively and it takes on a live of its own. Sometimes during the painting process but often much later when it is finished i can see its meaning for me personal, as if […]
loving, more loving…
Suffering only hurts because you fear it. Suffering only hurts because you complain about it. It pursues you because you flee from it. You must not flee, you must not complain,you must not fear. You must love.You know all this yourself, you know quite well deep within you, that there is a single magic, a […]
What’s been hatching in my studio…
It all started with a piece of Styrofoam sticking out of a recycling bin (together with a wooden crate, which I used to paint another painting, “Offereing“), and then I kept looking at the styrofoam piece with a pretty intriguing cut-out, like it once had an instrument encased in it, perhaps a saxophone… and went […]
waste and graced :-)
Been watching some moving documentaries lately that I wanted to share. They are not directly related to my art but somehow will influence it and perhaps touch you as well. Starting with “Wasteland” Synopsis Filmed over nearly three years, WASTE LAND follows renowned artist Vik Muniz as he journeys from his home base in Brooklyn […]
Go to the Limits of your Longing – Geh bis an Deiner Sehnsucht Rand
God speaks to each of us as he makes us, then walks with us silently out of the night. These are the words we dimly hear: You, sent out beyond your recall, Go to the limits of your longing. Embody me. Flare up like a flame and make big shadows I can move in. Let […]
The Scream
acrylic on sculpted styrofoam (its hard to see in the photo but it’s actually a soft scoop out where the face is and another on the right where the drop is, originally the styrofoam looked like it contained a saxophone), unframed, 12 x 12 inch (30.05 x 30.05 cm) Original sold! contact me if you would […]
The Tortured Artist
This is interesting and has me wonder… Dave Eggers and Jonah Lehrer – Tortured Artists and ‘Grit’ “People who are a little bit sad . . . they become a lot more centered and focused and more likely to persist. So they stick with that task for longer.” Reminds me of the classic examples of […]
Title page for the children book…
Been working on some changes on the illustrations for a children book I had created earlier in the year, and finally got inspired for the title page…
What Happens…
Another beautiful poem by Hafiz that brought tears to my eyes for reasons that cannot be expressed any other way . . . What happens when your soul begins to awaken your eyes and your heart and the cells of your body to the great Journey of Love? First there is wonderful laughter and probably […]
Inspiration… (coming and going)
…an unfinished painting and some leaves that started dancing…. 🙂 My first animation. Hope you enjoy!
separation pains…
Just exactly what is this longing that pulls us thru life: love, devotion, bhakti, I keep wondering, as I find (and lose) my self again and again, stumbling, and face down in the mud. And in those moments sometimes poems make some sense of the “non-sense” 🙂 TIRED OF SPEAKING SWEETLY Love wants to […]
Love, Devotion, Bhakti
Just finished a new painting, for a very dear friend. And noticed again how strange that it is much more difficult to paint the (half) portrait of someone I see every day versa someone I have seen only once or twice. Perhaps I should pay more attention 🙂 “Thought we travel the world over […]
