These poems are inspired by the present textile art piece I am working on.
Golden DeLight
I Am Awareness and Energy
in a place of Being and Knowing
I Am a Sovereign Being, here now
in a place of living Fully, Happily and Growing
breath in, breath out
breath in, breath out
breath in, breath out
I AM my hearts Golden DeLight
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Nature’s Sweet DeLight
Opportunity arises
a breeze flows through the air
My branches are dancing, swaying and moving
to Nature’s Sweet DeLight
All around me nature’s sweet grace dances together
to the celestial music composed in the air
As the breeze moves on to my branches graced in stillness
universal source nourishes the dance within
When I begin a new project I always have a vision or feeling of the finished artwork. Golden DeLight is about working with the sun, light and the new. We’ll see how this transpires as the weaving progresses.
So much fun making these beads and working with wire. Each one taking on their own image of a spirally cosmic nest.
I’m excited about this weaving as I’ll be incorporating some found objects that I’ve picked up on my morning walks. Oh, the pure joy of co-creating!
Light Warrior
Light Investigator
Light Be-er
Sometimes I just
can’t stop writing
about Light!
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As I begin this brand new day
in my light Beingness way
I extend filaments of joy and love
just as the breeze carries the flight of a dove
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I Love All of You
every crevice, every turn, every particle
All of You
your smile, your doubting self, your curious nature
All of You
inside and out, outside and in, heart space everywhere now
All of You
all that you live, all that you are, all that embraces you
All of You
every thread of your universe, every presence of your Being
All of You
I Love All of You
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Mandala drawings in the morning light for future paintings or textile art.
Having a vision and intention when beginning an artwork, I am not attached to its outcome. Every weave and knot is an inward stillpoint of silence.
The physical aspects of this piece have an awareness of the different surfaces and how they absorb light and reflect white, all colors – be it a bright white, blue white, grey white, white white, and on and on.
The rainbow spectrums on the artwork and wall are truly a visual pun for White on White.
Young Children’s Art is… – innocent, intuitive, expressive, playful, exploratory, in the present, and in your face honest – messy, muddy, rainbowy, scribbly, splattery, tangly, so everywhere, and so wildly spectacular
it’s hard to imagine a world without children’s art
it’s easy to imagine children’s art being a teacher to us all
Everywhere Now on Our Planet
To leave one’s environment
and enter another
expands the world of knowing
new worlds come into view
to explore and discover
bridging together realms we once knew
Be present in it all
for change is constant
slow down and groove to a new rhythm
live in this world and not of it
to be happy and uncover
spiraling wisdom everywhere now on our planet
Poetry comes in many forms. Infinite possibilities, from letter to letter, word to word, line to line. Another avenue for creativity to flow.
Exploring the themes of children, nature, art and consciousness, here are a select few to begin with from my musings. More to come. Enjoy!
Portraits from Within Portraits from within unleashes swirls of color sparks of light in an ocean of eternity the hum and vibration radiate outward attracting a resonance of being portraits from within
Dashes and Dots dots and dashes
..-..-.. dashes and dots
..-..-..-..-.. making marks in so many spots
small and big
..-..-.. big and small
..-..-..-..-.. didn’t know they could get so tall
make some yourself
..-..-.. you’ll see
it’s dashes and dots
..-..-.. calling the shots!
Comes Clarity through the thick dense fog comes clarity
Sharing a past post that today still rings true for creating, creativity and working with the mandala as an expressive and spiritual art process. Enjoy!
Within the Circle
Moving beyond a standard size sheet of paper, going from an 8×8″ paper size to an 24×36″, to create a mandala can be a turn to an unknown world. It stretches our comfort zone. It’s too large, that’s a lot of space to fill, it will take forever, are some of the concerns expressed. Here is an introductory mandala exercise that will ease the jitters of creating large! Mandala Connect-the-Dots. Working with eight or sixteen spokes, the connect-the-dot mandala is designed to act as a guide for drawing, along with allowing for the intuitive process and creativity to flow. Mandala Connect-the-Dots is also for anyone exploring the circle, looking for an expressive art form for meditation, or for creating community connections working together coloring a mandala. Children, teens, adults, watercolors, acrylics, crayons, markers, or colored pencils.
DownloadMandala Connect-the-Dots and have the eight or sixteen spoke mandala printed in B/W, 24×36″ at an office supply store such as Home Depot. Here in the U.S. a B/W print is $3.00.
24×36″ Mandala Connect-the-Dots, sixteen spokeMandala drawing connecting the dots with straight and curved lines.
Dots to Stars: A creative way to involve young children and teens is to turn the dots into stars! With a colored pencil or marker, draw stars over/on top of the dots. Express the stars free hand or use small star cookie cutters or star templates. Connect the stars to create a personal Star Constellation Mandala.
