View From The Truck Window: August 2018

Wednesday, August 22, 2018

Thursday, August 16, 2018

Back To The Studio

Fun with new paint, because one just can't have too many art supplies.

Everyday Uncertainties

Just a reminder to be thankful for what we have. Tonight there was an accident on the interstate just at our exit. Like everyone else, I pulled off in a parking lot and watched.

Friends and I went to Dick Blick art supply in Galesburg today, and had taken that exit three hours earlier. I'm incredibly glad for our wonderful day out, and tremendously sorry for any who (most likely) didn't survive their day. Each day is uncertain, and worth noting with gratitude and appreciation, isn't it?

Quotes I Like

"To make images is a way of ordering one's world, of exploring and understanding one's relationship to existence. . . . The images we make are often ahead of our understanding, but to say "yes" to a subject is also to have recognized, however dimly, a part of oneself; to live with that image, to accept its significance is perhaps to grow in understanding."

~ John Blakemore

"The virtue of the camera is not the power it has to transform the photographer into an artist, but the impulse it gives him to keep on looking -- and looking."

~ Brooks Atkinson

"To be an artist is to notice every beautiful and tragic thing, to cry freely, to collect experience and shape it into forms that others can share."

~ Jan Phillips

"Images unearthed are not merely random, they are metaphor. I am not creating something else. I am revealing who I am."

~ Catherine Moore

"Excellent day for putting Slinkies on an escalator."

~ Unknown

"We do not remember days, we remember moments."

~ Cesare Pavese

"Life is getting up an hour early to live an hour more."

~ Hal Borland

"The silence spoke loudly of silence,

and the rivers kept speaking,

of rivers, of boulders and air."

~ Jane Hirshfield

"Have you ever noticed how "What the hell" is always the right decision to make?"

~ Terry Johnson

"I really believe there are things nobody would see if I didn't photograph them."

~ Diane Arbus

"Photographers too often hear, "Your camera takes good pictures." Imagine telling an author, "Your computer writes such great books."

~ Sandra Juto

"Art is not a pastime but a priesthood."

~ Jean Cocteau

"Earth's crammed with Heaven,

And every common bush afire with God;

But only he who sees, takes off his shoes -

The rest sit 'round it and pluck blackberries."

~ Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Wednesday, August 22, 2018

Doga

Saturday, August 18, 2018

Traditional Landscape

Modern Landscape

Thursday, August 16, 2018

Sun Salutation

Yoga By The Lake

Back To The Studio

Everyday Uncertainties

Thursday, August 2, 2018

Settling In