Follow your bliss...: Featured on The Altered Page

Sunday, July 29, 2012

Featured on The Altered Page

Solar, 7/23/2012, acrylic wash and rice paper on canvas, 8 x 8 inches

This is a small painting that will be on its way to the gallery, my Fred and I will be in a group exhibition in August at Szozda Gallery, I'll post links as soon as I have photos!

Visit The Altered Page to see the collection of Still Life images

I'm always collecting things, making little arrangements and putting them around the house to enjoy or setting them up and taking them down after photographing them...this is one that I submitted to Seth's The Altered Page some time ago...

Evening Song, 1/11/2006, pencil drawing on paper, from a sketchbook

I picked them because I love how their natural scrolling loops and curves echo many of my drawings...

Rite of Spring, 5/26/2006, pencil drawing on paper, from a sketchbook

Here are a few more photos I took that day, specific to Seth's project...

I still have the little coils cluttered together in a box...now dried out and too fragile...I have a few other collections of this and that, odds n' ends...wonderful stuff found and pieced together...

4 comments:

Micros said...: Yes. . .

Very good work here at play. Lyrical prose interplayed with damn good sense and intelligence. Dare I say something that is amiss in our humanity.

I am enlivened by your philosophy and inspired by your work.

Be well

Micros; 6:49 PM
Micros said...: Yes. . .

Very good work here at play. Lyrical prose interplayed with damn good sense and intelligence. Dare I say something that is amiss in our humanity.

I am enlivened by your philosophy and inspired by your work.

Be well

Micros; 6:51 PM
Ruth Armitage said...: Hi Laura,
I'm visiting from Seth's blog... love what you did with the grapevines. It is fun to see the other photos you took and how they echo the lines in your paintings.; 7:13 PM
Seth said...: Congratulations on being in the group exhibition Laura. Thanks for sharing the other still life pictures...and for being a part of The Pulse!; 8:46 PM

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I was finally diagnosed with Fibromyalgia in 2007 after years of being told my illness was all in my head. My Fibro is everyday fatigue with body aches, mostly tolerable, but when I have a flare-up, which can be triggered by stress, hormones, or being over tired from over-doing it, I get the full body pain, including chest pains (yes, these are scary, like an elephant standing on my chest.) Thankfully, it doesn't hurt to take a breath, but I feel breathless, I just do yoga and breathing exercises to stretch and breathe to ease through the worst of it, NSAIDs help to cut the pain, and naps are always a necessary thing when needed (but hard to do while at the day job!) It's a balancing act to manage, I take advantage of the good days, lay low on the bad ones, and very often, push through in spite of the bad days...some mornings I wish I could stay in bed, but I'm glad that I get up and about, very often 'the kinks' work themselves out. I refuse to take the recommended pharmaceutical band-aids on the market, I tried one once, and I don't like feeling like a zombie. I keep active with my creativity, I think that's the key to my overcoming this obstacle every day...and I have my Fred and our son, five cats, and one dog named Max.