March | 2014 | Wind In Her Hair Studio

Emitting Streams of Thought – (while sitting in nature on a spring day, contemplating life.) pen and ink sketch

Experience – Everyone is having an experience. Everyone is having an experience unique to their own inner world view. All experiences are legitimate. All experiences are our lessons. All experiences move us up or move us down the ladder of ascension to the light. Moving toward the light is essential for ultimate experience, not only for ourselves, but for the evolution of humanity. All of our experiences weave together in oneness as collective consciousness. In this way, we influence how the world moves. The sheer energy of our experience, our streams of thought, push how the world moves. Each one of us affects the whole.

Qui-Gon Jin (The Phantom Menace), reminds us of our need for mindfulness in life: “Always remember…your focus determines your reality.”

My focus these days, as I move forward into a new phase of my life as artist and sage woman, is to do so with mindful creation in all areas of my life. From our creative mind and through the many forms of ART, we are able to express our deepest experiences to the world. Through ART we tell our stories. Embrace your creative experience.

Spring’s Arrival – Cloverdale, CA

May the Fire of Renewal in Spring’s Arrival Light the Fire of your Creative Mind!

I am grateful for the beauty of nature that surrounds me in these hills and valleys.

Playing with Bits and Pieces

It started with a Whole Foods Market 10 x 12 wooden box used for a catering delivery. It hung around my studio for a year. I always had it in mind to make a little decorative stenciled tray out of it, but never followed through, so it sat gathering dust on a shelf.

How one thing leads to another always fascinates me when you stay open to imagination and play around with creative possibilities. I had a box, I had a small painting and many bits and pieces of gathered items that had collage possibilities. I had sat around in my studio with pieces before me on a table, a bit stuck on how to present ideas for some of my mixed media art creations – nothing was coming together in a way that I liked. I grabbed the box and rather mindlessly began to “doodle” with the bits and pieces. The small painting of a beach didn’t fit in the frame for which I had intended, so it made it’s way into the center of the box. Broken ceramic doll pieces lay about. One had inadvertently lodged itself into a moon shell. Hmmmm, that’s interesting. I had a broken clay shard that I didn’t want to throw away – how could I use that?

The whimsy factor began to take hold! I dug further into my collection of shells and findings and kept on playing with the piece. I didn’t know where it would take me, I just let it evolve. I was having so much fun, it was hard to say “stop”, it’s completed. The final whimsical touch was a little rabbit, right out of Alice in Wonderland, popping out of its barnicale hole.

Sea Urchins was the final result. (see below). The process of creative doodling, keeping a whimsical frame of mind that is open to what shows up, set me on a roll of other pieces of mixed media and textile art (check out my felt flags under Textile Art) The process is liberating, because anything goes.

Sea Urchins

Often, “mistakes” can turn into creative opportunity that pushes you to go a step beyond original intentions. Next time you are stuck or not feeling the ideas are flowing in the way you want, gather all your “stuff”, sit down and just play. It might amaze you what turns up!

Detail views of Sea Urchins:

Little doll piece that got “stuck” in a moon shell – which ultimately “unstuck” my imagination for this piece.