Trusting intuition and memory both visually and in everyday situations.
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Category Archives: intuitiveI had the opportunity of going to MoMA yesterday evening. I was actually there for a lecture on economics! Hmmm… It was an opportunity to reflect upon “America and the New Global Economy” with the guest speaker Lawrence H. Summers. He navigated through the complex financial challenges we currently face. As former United States Secretary… show 3 comments 
YOU ARE AMAZING……..AND I JUST ADORE YOU. 
The final thought to this is that after giving of ourselves first to sustain and protect all of our rights to food shelter etc, then the need to make Art an economically based endeavor would shift to one of having the time and the room to celebrate each other and our love.
Truly the only way to deal with economic solutions is to recognize that a global economy requires a spiritual view of the purpose for this physical earthly existence. In order to achieve any balance we must be cognizant of the need to eliminate extremes of wealth and poverty. If we accepted the notion that all the peoples of the earth were entitled to basic inalienable rights and that this is not merely an American Ideal, but a God given right to all, then we would never allow the changing tides of any economy to starve a people, leave children uneducated or deny women and children an equal right to live. We would rise together to resolve the impediments to anyone first. |
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Karen Renna - So the mood is gentler and related to your moments with the family but the technique and need to capture an experience is definitely a Kollwitz sort of form- distilling it to its essence. There is a purity to your expression.
Sally - Beth,
I find snippets of visual stimulation cropping up in my work – a college textbook cover pattern from long before I was weaving with ribbon, for example. But in my case, I am not consciously calling up a memory in order to represent it. I’ll pay more attention and see if there is more of a correlation that I am not aware of!
Beautiful series.
(I must return your book!)
chironarts - Great Works, Beth!!!