Do
I
have to?
Nice choice to-
day: sleep in? Go shop?
Paint? Write? Sheer opportunity ...
– Leonard Blumfeld (© 2008)
It’s Saturday, so this is all true. For Sunday Scribblings #122.
Saturday, August 2, 2008
Wednesday, July 30, 2008
Seven shadows
Seven things that cast shadows ... or remove shadows
- Twists of fate (obviously these work both ways)
- Love in all its insincere, fitful, joyous, painful and – ultimately, hopefully – genuine, unadulterated incarnations
- Intersocial play ... the equality – inferiority – superiority game
- The weather
- The planets (anything can be blamed on planetary influences)
- I myself
- Constraints ... basically anything: taxes, traffic rules, work, the need to have dough ... anything that restricts freedom ... thank God for some of these
List inspired by Café Writing: "So, gimme seven things that cause shadows in your life OR gimme seven things that you do to chase the shadows away."
Thursday, July 17, 2008
Black Mexican Turtles
The stylized black turtles (or what else could they be?) I brought back from Mexico many years ago. For Project Black Take 9.Tuesday, July 15, 2008
On a blackened door
This one I found near London's Brick Lane this May.Take 7 for Anna Carson's Project Black.
More about treasures found in Brick Lane.
Monday, July 14, 2008
Sunday, July 13, 2008
Saturday, July 12, 2008
Twigs, blossoms, sunlight
Even though I do not necessarily think of healing as a prime objective of my painting effort and paintings, there definitely is an effect I look for in what I paint and what I'd like viewers to experience.
Several years ago I had an art exhibition titled 'Between harmony and disharmony.' One of my friends who attended the opening said, "You know, in your previous shows there were some paintings that were disharmonious, but there's not a single one here today that feels that way to me." I took that as a compliment and accomplishment.
But back to the experience I'd like to evoke ... I'd like the people who look at my art to feel that they have received something best described, perhaps, as nourishment for the soul.
And that would qualify as some sort of healing, wouldn't it?
Leonard Blumfeld
Tuesday, July 8, 2008
Sky and thin strip of city
This cloud formation out of my living room window fascinated me the other evening. My contribution to today's Wordless Wednesday.Monday, July 7, 2008
Artistic games
Old games played with new tools at the Tate Modern in London.Posted for Ruby Tuesday thanks to qualifying clothes.
Original Ruby Tuesday invitation.
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