hey, thanks for reading my blog (and the awesome comment). i left you a totally long reply, so feel free to drop by whenever you like.
i really like your work. you're a way talented artist. i especially like the portraits: they have a haunting quality - very mysterious and dream-like.
since my serious work is totally abstract (i paint portraits for a living, but they're not at all original. if someone wants a warhol-like portrait, i can manage it. van gogh, manet, renoir, modigliani, degas, cassatt, hopper, hockney--i just paint whatever is wanted most), i admire painters that can create original portraits big time.
i enjoyed reading many of your posts and i think it's really cool that you have music on your blog.
i also totally like janis, dylan, merton, picasso, van gogh, baez, lennon, the beatles, dickinson, joni mitchell, Whitman, birds, clouds, solitude, brautigan, chagall, patti smith, blake, dylan thomas, vonnegut..... i could go on, but i have to first finish reading your awesome blog!
have you read may sarton's journal of a solitude? it really helped me feel way more positive about being such a total recluse. most people are afraid and lonely when they are alone for days and days. but it can be a good thing: it gives the solitary person a chance to think, write, paint, pray, meditate--in a really pure sort of way.
thanks for letting me read your awesome blog. i feel totally humbled. it's sort of like i've just been to church and a really cool art museum.
i'm very much looking forward to reading more of your posts.
I saw this article in the Washington Post, and it made me think of you. http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/speaking-of-science/wp/2014/09/26/scientists-confess-to-sneaking-bob-dylan-lyrics-into-their-work-for-the-past-17-years/?tid=pm_pop
A mental health counselor who helped me in my early sobriety suggested that book. It's been many years since I read it. Maybe it's time for me to read it again.
Funny that you should comment that my blog made you think of a church and an art museum:
hey, thanks for reading my blog (and the awesome comment). i left you a totally long reply, so feel free to drop by whenever you like.
ReplyDeletei really like your work. you're a way talented artist. i especially like the portraits: they have a haunting quality - very mysterious and dream-like.
since my serious work is totally abstract (i paint portraits for a living, but they're not at all original. if someone wants a warhol-like portrait, i can manage it. van gogh, manet, renoir, modigliani, degas, cassatt, hopper, hockney--i just paint whatever is wanted most), i admire painters that can create original portraits big time.
i enjoyed reading many of your posts and i think it's really cool that you have music on your blog.
i also totally like janis, dylan, merton, picasso, van gogh, baez, lennon, the beatles, dickinson, joni mitchell, Whitman, birds, clouds, solitude, brautigan, chagall, patti smith, blake, dylan thomas, vonnegut..... i could go on, but i have to first finish reading your awesome blog!
have you read may sarton's journal of a solitude? it really helped me feel way more positive about being such a total recluse. most people are afraid and lonely when they are alone for days and days. but it can be a good thing: it gives the solitary person a chance to think, write, paint, pray, meditate--in a really pure sort of way.
thanks for letting me read your awesome blog. i feel totally humbled. it's sort of like i've just been to church and a really cool art museum.
i'm very much looking forward to reading more of your posts.
Wonderful mandalas. Love this artwork.
ReplyDeleteI saw this article in the Washington Post, and it made me think of you.
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Zach -- Thank you for your long reply to my comment at your blog.
ReplyDeleteThank you for your appreciation of my art work.
I have read that book by May Sarton. I feel most safe when I am in solitude but have become more comfortable socially in recent years.
Have you read this book?:
http://www.spiritualityandpractice.com/books/excerpts.php?id=21204
A mental health counselor who helped me in my early sobriety suggested that book. It's been many years since I read it. Maybe it's time for me to read it again.
Funny that you should comment that my blog made you think of a church and an art museum:
http://talking37thdream.blogspot.com/2009/12/holy-contradictions-1982-32-years-old.html
An alternative name for my blog would be "Welcome to the Church of the Holy Contradiction."
Walt Whitman's words move me:
"Do I contradict myself? Very well, then I contradict myself, I am large, I contain multitudes."
robin andrea -- Thank you, robin andrea. I love your photography (-:
Thanks for the link, robin andrea (-:
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