No. 4
mixed media on paper, 2019
24" x 22"
(from Alexander Supertramp series)
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17 September 2019
03 June 2019
Wanderers
AS: No. 3
mixed media on paper, 2019
24" x 22"
(from Alexander Supertramp series)
Across the way, the ocean roars and rumbles
It softens just enough
for whispers to make it out of the night
An exchange
between rising sun
and luminous moon
quiets the land, anchors it
All is still
the quiet reverence of promise.
Write me poems from wherever you find yourself
and they will be heard even unspoken.
It softens just enough
for whispers to make it out of the night
An exchange
between rising sun
and luminous moon
quiets the land, anchors it
All is still
the quiet reverence of promise.
Write me poems from wherever you find yourself
and they will be heard even unspoken.
26 February 2018
Happiness,
Memory, No. 0218-2: A.S.
mixed media on paper, 2018
24" x 26"
It took me a while to get here, this place of clarity,
to accept the reality that we, perhaps, were meant only for a temporary space in time.
A blip on the radar some would call it.
A blip on the radar some would call it.
Setting all guesses aside,
for a period of two months,
for a period of two months,
you and I were very much real. We were as real as I could have ever hoped for or
imagined. More real than the pigments on my fingertips when I paint, or the cold on my skin
during my morning run. More real than those before you. I trust any lingering sadness is a singular emotion created
from the great, wild hopes of someone who finally allowed herself to feel deeply
enough for another person.
I hurt as genuinely as I did for you
because the universe was calling out to my humanness.
We are who we are, and I choose only to take with me that of which I am certain:
I, one humble fleeting speck of existence, was met with a brilliant, like-minded thinker.
You challenged my aloneness.
You challenged my perception of happiness.
You challenged my aloneness.
You challenged my perception of happiness.
I experienced what many others go through their entire lifetime without knowing . . .
An incomparable connection with
a fellow human.
There is ample reason to be sad about loss, but every reason to
find happiness in what was gained from our time together.
OH
a fellow human.
There is ample reason to be sad about loss, but every reason to
find happiness in what was gained from our time together.
OH
20 February 2018
24 January 2018
23 January 2018
Finding Shelter
Memory, No. 0118
mixed media on paper, 2018
21" x 24"
"Knight is able, after all, to interact with another person, and do so in the most open and vulnerable way. And right then, I come the closest to understanding why Knight left. He left because the world is not made to accommodate people like him . . . There was no place for him, and instead of suffering further, he escaped . . . The forest offered him shelter.
I think that most of us feel like something is missing from our lives . . . But life isn't about searching endlessly to find what's missing; it's about learning to live with the missing parts.
For Knight, his camp was the one spot on the planet where he knew he belonged."
-passages from pages 182-83
The Stranger in the Woods: The Extraordinary Story of the Last True Hermit
13 December 2017
10 December 2017
05 December 2017
A Cabin for Me, A Cabin for Us
Memory: Intentions
mixed media on paper, 2017
21" x 22"
"Some
people want a huge house filled with luxuries and cars. Others just
want a tiny cabin alone in the woods away from those kinds of people."
-Jim Carrey
15 November 2017
The Shortness of Forever
Memory, No. 10-08 (ii)
mixed media on paper, 2017
21" x 24"
21" x 24"
To My Fellow Humans:
Be kind to each other.
Be compassionate.
Choose empathy over apathy.
Be compassionate.
Choose empathy over apathy.
Be honest, truthful. Share your intentions early.
Do not use one another or flatter by way of tongue.
Only say what is genuine.
Treat the heart with gentleness, and do not promise
what you cannot deliver.
Forgive.
Forgive offenses, great and small.
Because in forgiveness, we find a way to recover.
-OH
06 November 2017
Truths that Settle
Memory, No. 11-05
mixed media on paper, 2017
21" x 24"
She spoke words that rose
from a crackling fire of first-time truths.
He took her words and emptied them into his
palms. He rubbed them together, but
only as means to keep himself warm.
The Lines of Moving Forward
Memory, No. 11-04
mixed media on paper, 2017
21" x 24"
Do not refer to me as someone you once knew.
Because you never knew me. Neither I, you.
No. But that was your doing,
not mine. And these, these beautiful wild lines, are
the lines of a woman moving forward.
02 November 2017
What Good Amid These, O Me, O Life?
Memory, No. 10-07 (i)
mixed media on paper, 2017
21" x 24"
"That you are here—that life exists and identity,
That the powerful play goes on, and you may contribute a verse." -Walt Whitman
05 October 2017
Catharsis
Memory, No. 10-4: What is Intimate
mixed media on paper, 2017
21" x 24"
Catharsis (noun) : the purging of the emotions or relieving of emotional tensions, especially through certain kinds of art, as tragedy or music.
02 October 2017
30 September 2017
You are You, and I am I
Memory, No. 9-29: Gestalt Prayer
mixed media on paper, 2017
21" x 24"
I do my thing and you do your thing . . .
You are you, and I am I,
and if by chance we find each other, it's beautiful.
You are you, and I am I,
and if by chance we find each other, it's beautiful.
-Fritz Perls
29 September 2017
The Plunge
Memory, No. 9-28: Where do we go from here?
mixed media on paper, 2017
21" x 24"
If only I knew.
27 September 2017
Happiness.
Memory, No. 9-26: Happiness
mixed media on paper, 2017
18" x 21"
"Happiness only real when shared."
-Chris McCandless
26 September 2017
O but Darling, What if We Fly?
Memory, No. 9-24, 25: O but Darling, What if We Fly?
mixed media on paper, 2017
21" x 24"
What if we fall?
O but darling, what if we fly?
. . .
24 September 2017
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