Art & Quilts

  • In The Eye of the Beholder…

    I went to the Beach House to do a Photoshoot with my quilts.  I was struck by the image of the Ladies on the Beach….and recalled the volumes of time I spent there healing my inner body…striving to be whole,… Continue reading

  • Hide my truth…

    On the Ex-Toots Blog, someone commented about praying for the children in the FALC, that they would be spared abuse.  When I commented back, the children don't need our prayers, but we need to pray for the adults.  We need… Continue reading

  • Write them Beautifully…

    In "Good Prose" The Art of Nonfiction.…about Memoirs. "The desire to tell the truth haunts the serious memoirist, and so it should. But there is a step beyond truth.  For the writer, the ultimate reward of memoir may be to… Continue reading

  • Without Your Self

    Krishnamurti writes about "Art, Beauty and Creation", in his book "Education and the Significance to Life." "Most of us are constantly trying to escape from ourselves; and as art offers a respectable and easy means to doing so, it plays… Continue reading

  • Injects the word fear.

    Here is a interesting writing on Fear….or perhaps what fear stands in front of, by J.Krishnamurti in his book, "Commentaries on Living, 2nd Series" "Why do you engage in welfare or in any other kind of work?" "I suppose it… Continue reading

  • What we want

    As I have watched nature showing itself as Flooding, I watched the changing transformation….how it expanded and now how it is contracting, receding back into its normal size. I have thought how it is a metaphor for life.  How we… Continue reading

  • Winter Art

    Winter's Art is not finished…even though many are ready for Spring like pictures to appear, I love what I seen today as I drove to work. What a great shot… I believe the chair was there to stop people from… Continue reading

  • As Art

    I have experienced creativity at a deep level, a healing level, but I could not have pinpointed what it healed, why or how. I just knew that Art Quilting was key in making me feel better…I can see how it… Continue reading

  • Day at the Beach

    Oblivious to the beautiful sunshine, melting the snow,  I was in the basement adding finishing touches on my latest Beach Lady. Perspective is hard to create, knowing the size in comparison, but maybe content trumps perspective. Or color, expression…push exact… Continue reading

  • Another Quilt taking form…

    I wanted to finish a novel I was listening to in the mail jeep, so I brought the last CD in the house, went downstairs to listen and began playing with a quilt I had started awhile ago.   I… Continue reading