Day 5. Joy
“Out of the Blue” 6×6, oil on wood panel, framed. My morning meditation today was on Joy, her capriciousness, her constant surprise, her inability to be invoked or beckoned as though her very nature is to arrive when not expected. In cleaning up my work space recently, I stumbled upon an unopened jar of cold […]
Day 4. Beauty
“Welcome, Beauty” 6×6, oil on canvas, framed. It feels a little early in the month for this kind of thing, but, no matter, today I took my palette knife to what seemed to be a perfectly fine painting and scratched off everything I could, thinking this one would just end up in the discard pile. […]
Day 3. Audacity
“Audacity” 4×4, oil on canvas, framed. My husband pointed out to me recently (several times actually) that I do not bring the same kind of carefree boldness to sharing my writing as I do to sharing my paintings. That there’s hesitancy there. As much as I wish he weren’t, he is right. I tell people […]
Day 2. Routine
“Carry Me” 8×8, oil on canvas, framed. Before January began I knew that routine, ritual, would be my path to discovery. That I would get up at the same time, start my practice the same way– uncover the unknown in the painfully familiar. I am still dumbfounded by the attack yesterday on the city in […]
Day 1. Wonder
“Invitation to Wonder” 6×6, oil on canvas, framed. Back in November I took a look around my studio space and realized that the chaos I’d been working in was making me, each day, less and less inclined to want to be there. My supplies were thrown on random shelves; I had a box in the […]
Day 12. Of Wonder and Grief
Day 10. Magic.
Day 7. Love Letters.
“Led by Love” 8×8 oil on canvas Writer Elizabeth Gilbert has a spiritual practice called “two-way” prayer where she writes a letter to God which she often just calls Love and then writes a letter back to herself from Love. I tried this practice months ago and it was so good, so healing that I […]