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Hone Life Word of the Week: Play: The Eighth Bowl
“All the world’s a stage and men and women merely players upon it.”
The Hone Life word of the week is play, as in playfulness rather than stage play, but in letting this quote select me, I’m demonstrating playfulness in letting my right brain, intuition, serendipity, synchronicity, Higher Consciousness, whatever you want to call it, have dominion. I’m being playful in my contemplation of play. Continue reading
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A Weekly Honing: Yellow: The Amber Lake
The Amber Lake
This week’s word to contemplate from Hone Life, is yellow. (Do check out Hone Life for the complete collection of reflections on the word of the week).
Though yellow conjures up sunshine and spring – warmth, growth, abundance, renewal – for me it’s a difficult colour to work with as an artist – it’s a bullying colour – and I can’t go near the yellow of a rapeseed crop in full bloom; that’s a yellow that plunges hot pokers into my eyes. I was pondering how to write sympathetically about yellow while working on a little mixed media collage/assemblage. The penny dropped when coating the substrate with shellac. I was using amber shellac. I thought immediately of heavy water.
This is the heavy water Gaston Bachelard writes about in Water and Dreams: An Essay on the Imagination of Matter. It’s in reference to the poems of Edgar Allen Poe and Bachelard admits in his observations to drawing on the analysis of Poe’s works by Freud enthusiast and benefactor Marie Bonaparte.
Amber is fossilised pine tree resin, secreted in response to injury, to seal and sterilise. It is probably observation of this which led to medicinal uses of amber, which date back to the time of Hippocrates, and forward to the early 20th century. One could say then of amber that it is a yellow which heals. Continue reading
Posted in Art, Collage & Assemblage, Encaustic Art, Mixed Media, spirituality, Writing
Tagged amber, amber shellac, Assemblage, Book Reviews, collage, damar resin, Dante G Rossetti, Edgar Allen Poe, encaustic, Freelance Writing, Gaston Bachelard, Hone Life, Mixed media, Poetry, resin fossil, Spiritual, The Amber Lake, Theme, Upper Carboniferous, Victorian poetry
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A Weekly Honing: Peel
Unpeel Appeal
I once wrote a poem in which I came up with the unforgettable alliteration: “A palimpsest of paths …” It was a battle to convince myself that it had to go! In the end, palimpsest became, “… layering …”
We like layers in nature. While layers signify impermanence, they also represent continuity and bestow character. I walk in nature – for spiritual, emotional and physical health. And as a walker I’ve become aware that less than a hand’s depth down into a dirt path is evidence of those who have walked it afore me. Continue reading
Posted in Inspiration, Photography, spirituality, Walking
Tagged beauty salon, beauty treatment, cosmetic surgery, exfoliate, Freelance Writing, Hone Life, palimpsest, Paperback Maple, peel, peeling, personality, plastic surgery, walk, wrinkles
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A Weekly Honing : Tradition
I was recently contacted and asked if I’d like to write for a site called Hone Life. I would write a short opinion, based on a single word which would be changed each Sunday, and accompany my article with a … Continue reading
Artist Review: Daevid Mendivil
I was recently commissioned (wearing my freelance writing hat) to write a review of the work of the young New York City based multi-disciplined artist Daevid Mendivil. His disciplines include dance, painting, photography, film & design. As a dancer, Daevid Mendivil … Continue reading
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Tagged Art Reviews, Ballet, Ballroom dancing, Contemporary Movement, Daevid Mendivil, Dance, Drawing, experimental film, flower drawing, Francois Perron, Freelance Writing, Jazz dance, Manhattan Youth Ballet, Movie/Film Reviews, Painting, Pas de deux, Performing Arts, Studio Maestro, Web Site Reviews
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