A Mantra a Day

Do you have some 'words of wisdom' that carry you through the tough patches?

Last week I found myself humming John Lennon's Let It Be and that prompted a little project titled 'Wisdom Words'.

I'm making a list of "words of wisdom" and creating a new series of Mantra collages that take images from my files and reconfigure them as 8x10 inch pieces for the upcoming Contemporary Art Center Holiday event ...pictured here is one of four that have been created this week.

Rest in Natural Great Peace

Favorite: Rest in natural great peace this exhausted mind, beaten helplessly by karma and neurotic thoughts like the rentless fury of the pounding waves in the infinite ocean of samsara. Rest in natural great peace. rest. to rest.

Today's Mantra

Hot n steamy here at the beach. Perfect day to be in the studio playing with papers giving a large painting a new kind of life in a small 'mantra' format. I may have about 10 of these babies going with me by the time I'm ready to pack.

The Cuyahoga Valley National Park Creativity Salon of September 20 is filling and the night before there's a great group of "Art Junkies" with whom I will share 'HALT, Metta and the Bodhichitta Heart' . I presented a similar workshop at Ursuline College in February during 'Rejuvenation' though I make it a point of not repeating format or exact content so we're all discovering something spontaneous and fresh.

I'm researchin' soft roof top carriers for my little wagon. There's a feeling that all the gear can get there for ten days of fun in Ohio.

Mantra for today

In three weeks I'll drive to Ohio for the opening of
'A Mild Obsession' with fabo artist Lynne Lofton at FAVA Gallery http://www.favagallery.org/ and since there are so many loose ends to bring together it feels like a bit of sanity to just play each day making these little 'Mantras' as I call em'.
This one's called 'Lotus Focus' and it may just ring a bell.

Sometimes we get so absorbed...

Tuesday in the studio was an amazing experience... seven women making art in the garden and in the studio... I got so involved I forgot to snap a photo so here's what I have started ...a series of what I refer to as 'Mantra's...little site meditations in a mostly 8x10 inch format presented in Euro frames ...sleek and intimate.


Do you ever yearn to share an image in a variety of ways? I find my archives excite me and so I am learning to 'mine that gold' and enlist the piece to take me to new places albeit on a small and easy to play with format.