Art’s Inspiration and Other Fancy Thoughts

Faces in a Storm

Faces in a Storm

“Faces in a Storm” is a unique original mono print, created in acrylic paint on a gelli plate, then hand embellished and finished with ink and color pencil.

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Kitty

Kitty

consider adorable kittysweetness with clawsindependence on four feet self contained liquid furmelts up from dots and scratchesstretches yawns and curling tongueKitty is a unique original mono print, created in acrylic paint on a gelli plate, then hand embellished and...

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Lady Bird

Lady Bird

lady bird hidden in plain view behind thin veneermasked for safety's semblence glitz and decorative pap it doesn't take much to fly away ininterior gardens richly responsive how deep does inquiry dip on jetstreams like visions bobbing and frisking fluffy clouds...

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Catnap

Catnap

waking dream alive and wigglyinpired by inner cat selfsquiggled convoluted mired in complexity and simple catnap fury frazzled  like organisedspaghetti subtled memorysound asleep, eyes wide openintrospection completeCatnap is a unique original mono print, created in...

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Birds

Birds

birds arose in wingless silencehow long must they stay putprisoners in their feathered nestssitting thus like disenhearted squirrelsempty nut bin stilling wings singing was allowedencouraged by passing strangerswhistling in the darkness plumped by hearts filled with...

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Three Old Sisters

Three Old Sisters

They didn't recognize themselves. Why would they? Never had they looked like that. Only the camera, or the errant pen, had imagined such visages. The eldest was quite perturbed. She suddenly discovered her unknown resemblance to an old fat Grandpa Ted, or some other...

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The Journey

The Journey

The Journey   You may find exhilarating storms of hope placid lakes of indifference and rushing streams of joy   still throughout your intrepid journey the constant thread stitches all together in the heart

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Cereus Joys of Caretaking

Cereus Joys of Caretaking

    From the prickly situation delicate bursts of gentle beauty  like love’s sweet whisper emerges in night’s darkness   From the bristly service everyday full of tasks fraught with jabbing thorns of duty and grief  born of love’s responsibility   In the still hours...

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Sequoia Dreamtime

Sequoia Dreamtime

        Ancient massive trunks  towering up to the sky In your own dreamtime of centuries passing   While temporal flashes  of color and movement from noisy two-leggeds  and skittering chipmunks  circulate around your roots And ravens wing through the air...

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Congregation of Finches

Congregation of Finches

    Congregation of golden finches perched in treetops   Singing full throated praises to all that is Life   Individually, yet together no special ritual needed   - Marshal Mckitrick  

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Garden Lady

Garden Lady

      Early Spring morning Sunlight and fresh air wafting through open window   Someone walking  through the leaves of last Fall   There stands Garden Lady with two fists full of bundled brown   Empowered joy shining on her face...

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