Category Archives: Inspiration

Attention and Discernment

Posted on March 22, 2022 by AnnIsikArts

Many eyes go through the meadow, but few see the flowers. Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Spring is on its Way Again – Inside and Out

Posted on March 8, 2022 by AnnIsikArts

Posted in Art, Inspiration, Nature Journal | Tagged Cheeseplant, Daffodils, inspiration, Interior/Exterior, Spring | Leave a comment

Bloganuary 27: Thin Places

Posted on January 27, 2022 by AnnIsikArts

“Nothing can be done without solitude. I’ve created my own solitude which nobody suspects.” Pablo Picasso. (AZ Quotes) I am sickened [it read] by the spectacle of your obstinately closed door. It indicates that a new aristocracy has been created, … Continue reading →

Posted in Art, Creativity, Inspiration, Quotes | Tagged #bloganuary, Ait Caol, Caol Ait, Carlton Lake, Christian Science Monitor, Demoiselles d'Avignon, Picasso, Poetic Mapping, The Atlantic Magazine, Thin Place | Leave a comment

Bloguanuary 24: A Dream and a Pilgrimage

Posted on January 24, 2022 by AnnIsikArts

Ignoring the gruesome grammar (left) for it would be impossible to write about a dream I do not remember, I am today prompted to write about a dream. This is an account of a dream that sent me on a … Continue reading →

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Still Taking the Anti-Dote (to the Poison of Chaos) And an Art Note

Posted on February 17, 2020 by AnnIsikArts

When all is done and dusted (pardon the pun) I’ll blog about what Jordan Peterson’s Clean up Your Room edict has revealed and changed. (Clean up Your Room comes from Dr Peterson’s 12 Rules for Life: An Anti-Dote to Chaos). … Continue reading →

Posted in Aesthetics, Art, Art Notes, Creativity, Inspiration, Music, Music Composition, Music Theory, Research, Walking | Tagged Anti-Dote to Chaos, Art Composition and Music Composition, Art Notes, Art Theory, John Cage, Jordan B Peterson, music theory | 7 Comments

Tricks of Light I

Posted on January 3, 2020 by AnnIsikArts

2019 was not a year for blogging. I didn’t plan it that way. But from late spring onwards, what plans I had for the year were snatched away and I was flying by the seat of my pants. 2020 is … Continue reading →

Posted in Creativity, Inspiration, Poetry, Walking, Writing | Tagged 12 Rules for Life, Clean Up Your Room, Jordan B Peterson, Nature Poetry, New Year's Resolution | Leave a comment

More Notes from a Melody Not Yet Written

Posted on October 14, 2019 by AnnIsikArts

“Melody and harmony are like lines and colors in pictures.” (AZ Quotes) – Rabindranath Tagore, from: Purabi: A Miscellany in Memory of Rabindranath Tagore 1941-1991, by Krishna Dutta, Rabindranath Tagore (1991). (AZ Quotes)

Posted in Art, Eco/Natural Dyeing and Printing, Inspiration, Monoprinting, Music, Music Composition, Music Theory, Printmaking, Research | Tagged AZ Quotes, Cold Pressure Eco Print, Eco Print, Eco Print on Paper, Krishna Dutta, Rabindranath Tagore | 1 Comment

Liminal Space, the Prepared Piano and Indeterminacy – a Quick Note to Myself and Anybody Reading

Posted on October 5, 2019 by AnnIsikArts

The subject of this blog was inspired in part by the Liminal States & Thresholds for Change series of artworks by Turtle Moon Impressions blogger Janis Doucette. Liminal space is that threshold space which is between one state of being and … Continue reading →