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RedTree: Stand Tall

RedTree: Stand Tall— Coming to Principle Gallery, June Give me a place to stand, and I will move the Earth. – Archimedes This quote is actually a condensed and long accepted version of the words of Archimedes. It was originally about the power of lever in physics. He actually said: Give me a lever long enough and a place to stand and I will move the Earth. But the lever has been dropped over the…

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Trust Your Eyes

He knows all about art, but he doesn’t know what he likes. –James Thurber I am fully immersed in work for my June show at the Principle Gallery right now. I need to get to a large piece on the easel that is waiting for its final touches which has me chomping at the bit to get to work this morning. In the name of expediency, I would like to share a post from a few years back about trusting…

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Fromm/Credo

GC Myers- Chaos & Light I believe that the fundamental alternative for man is the choice between “life” and “death”; between creativity and destructive violence; between reality and illusions; between objectivity and intolerance; between brotherhood-independence and dominance-submission. —Erich Fromm, Credo (1965) The last couple of posts have dealt with personal creeds or statements of…

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Child of the Sun

A New Cornucopia– At West End Gallery By health I mean the power to live a full, adult, living, breathing life in close contact with what I love — the earth and the wonders thereof — the sea — the sun. All that we mean when we speak of the external world. A want to enter into it, to be part of it, to live in it, to learn from it, to lose all that is superficial and acquired in me and to become a…

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Creed/ Everyday Gods

Passages: Toward Order — At Principle Gallery Here’s my creed, against Benjamin’s. This is what I believe: ‘That I am I.’ ‘That my soul is a dark forest.’ ‘That my known self will never be more than a little clearing in the forest.’ ‘That gods, strange gods, come forth from the forest into the clearing of my known self, and then go back.’ ‘That I must have the courage to let them come and…

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RedTree: Continuum

RedTree: Continuum— Coming to Principle Gallery, Alexandria, VA In this dark and wounded society, writing can give you the pleasures of the woodpecker, of hollowing out a hole in a tree where you can build your own nest and say, “This is my niche, this is where I live now, this is where I belong.” –Anne Lamott, Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life (1994) My annual solo exhibit at…

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Society

In the High Country– At West End Gallery Whoso would be a man, must be a nonconformist. He who would gather immortal palms must not be hindered by the name of goodness, but must explore if it be goodness. Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind. Absolve you to yourself, and you shall have the suffrage of the world. –Ralph Waldo Emerson, Self-Reliance Working this morning.…

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Artists in the Real World

Pablo Picasso- Guernica, 1937 Artists who live and work with spiritual values cannot and should not remain indifferent to a conflict in which the highest values of humanity and civilization are at stake. –Pablo Picasso I always worry about alienating people who come to this blog to read about art and are greeted with my opinions and beliefs on the world. But reading the words above from Pablo…

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