Ira Glass on the Creative Process (www.getoutthebox.org)

a new year begins, with unseen seeds of things to come; promises we make to ourselves that we may or may not end up keeping. i made no resolutions, but released habits; things & other negativity that doesn't serve me anymore on the last day of 2011; perhaps this will open the door a crack for the light to come in. remember, it's the journey.

elements
the paintings hung on the cave walls, a hidden gallery, unseen, deep in mountains so misty I can't see what surrounds me. I stumble along on my journey, maybe waiting for something to happen instead of creating the life I want. where do I find the energy, motion, urgency to do something other than watch the days roll by, the sky turn from cerulean to indigo to black and back. Feel your consciousness expand, all colors, flickering beyond all boundaries. Powers of Air, Fire, Water, and Earth, I need you; what do you need from me?

(C) Bird, 'Fire', mixed media on canvas, 16 x 20

I thought my old blog had disappeared, and now it's back... just like magick.

secrets and lies

(c)Bird, Secrets and Lies, pigment stick on canvas. 

Imagine at 46 finding out that who you thought was your family is not. The search for identity seems now to shape who I am, how I feel, and what comes through in my art. New themes emerge about past, present, future, and how they relate to time and timelessness. So I feel like I have the technique available, but the art comes from a higher power, the Universe. Maybe I have a little bit of my own to say, though really we are all one, related or not.