Tag Archives: spirituality

Bloganuary 2023: Day 12: What chore do you find the most challenging to do? (Or, Walden: or, Life in the Woods)

Posted on January 12, 2023 by AnnIsikArts

“I find it wholesome to be alone the greater part of the time. To be in company, even with the best, is soon wearisome and dissipating. I love to be alone. I never found the companion that was so companionable … Continue reading →

Posted in Art, Blogging, Creativity, Eco/Natural Dyeing and Printing, Monoprinting, Printmaking, Quotes, spirituality, Writing | Tagged #bloganuary, Chores, Contemplation, Self-reliance, Solitude, spirituality, Thoreau, Walden | 2 Comments

Looking Again: Correspondences and Mapping Death

Posted on April 8, 2016 by AnnIsikArts

A couple of days ago I learnt that I’d been accepted into Ning’s Artist Book 3.0 group and I’ve been busy uploading images to albums on my Ning personal page. In the process of looking again at works I’ve not viewed … Continue reading →

Posted in Art, Artist Books, Collage & Assemblage, Creativity, Mixed Media, Photography, Poetry, spirituality | Tagged Anglo-Saxon Effigy, Artist Book, Baudelaire, Books of the Dead, collage, Correspondences, Effigy, Les Fleurs du Mal, Powerpoint, spirituality | 8 Comments

Arthouse Coop Sketchbook Project 2015 – Progress

Posted on March 16, 2015 by AnnIsikArts

A few pages shuffled
my hands uncertain
tentative as always.
One’s full of tears

as I am tears, and bad repairs
that won’t last, of remains
of lives that didn’t. But their stories
are beautiful, aren’t they? Continue reading →

Posted in Art, Art Journal, Artist Sketchbooks, Christian writing, Dreams, Inspiration, Nature Journal, Printmaking, spirituality, Stitch, Writing | Tagged Art, Arthouse Coop, Christian Writing, dreaming, Dreams, Eco Print, Mystery & Suspense, Poetry Writing, Spiritual, spirituality | 3 Comments

Another Quote to Encourage Creatives: Rumi

Posted on August 20, 2014 by AnnIsikArts

As my broken shoulder mends (and the rate is ‘amazing’ and ‘astonishing’ to my consultant and physio respectively) and I am able to do more and more with my left hand and arm. (I’m a leftie, so it’s quite important!) I’m bit by bit picking up my creative threads. Spiritually and mentally, there are some exciting developments brewing.

Nonetheless, I’ve been feeling down in the dumps about my creative hiatus. My hands fell this morning on a little book I have* of extracts from the love poems of Rumi, described on the cover as, “The great Sufi saint who embraced God through the path of love.” I opened it upon words which resonated strongly with my present state of spirit – and body. Continue reading →