My Mountains

  After painting these last two I was like "What the heck is up with all the water?" Then I remembered the new moon (and eclipse!) in Pisces... uh, right. I would say I'm picking that up. lol. My art style seems to have changed again. I'm liking it though, very dreamy. Also, to field…

My Hair

In progress? I'm not sure I'm totally satisfied with this, but nothing I try to do at this point to improve/finish it is working for me. I may revisit, I may call it "done." ::Shrug:: It was nice to get back to "real" drawing (as opposed to collage work,) but gosh I'm rusty.

The Idea of Not Being What People Expect

  I came across this quote to today and found it super interesting and inspiring. In a big way, it gave me a new perspective and joy in one of my long-term "problems." This quote has not generally been true of me--just the opposite. I have often felt that I have a problem with either…

The Holistic Life – Level 10

I've talked about a lot of the larger philosophic process I went through in creating Open Art. This stuff is all really great at providing a foundation from which to work from--but what about when it comes to the nitty-gritty of how to enact big philosophical ideas in everyday real life? I've mentioned that in creating social change one…

Pens! Pens! Pens!

So many of you may know that I'm an official Bullet Journal (Bujo) junkie. If you don't know about bullet journaling yet, head on over to BohoBerry.com or over to the original creator's site at bulletjournal.com and check out the basics. The short answer is that bullet journaling is an incredibly flexible and easy way to…

“Right Life”

I've always appreciated the hierarchies in Asian religions, especially those that have sprung from Hinduism. They have a multiplicity of very specialized categories for understanding not only the universe but modes of thought and being. In looking for structures on which to base an Open Art Life I've looked into many sorts of age-old philosophies.…

#openartlife

#openartlife is the basis of everything I am trying to be, do, and teach. It is the culmination AND beginning of my life's work, and the summation of everything I spent my college years trying to learn. It ultimately can be summed up by this: What is this handbasket, and where are we going so…

Synthesis

My biggest fear in this “crisis” is that I'm doing all this work for “nothing” and that I'm being “stupid” or “naive.” Here it is helpful for me (and hopefully for you) to remind myself of the process of writing my senior paper (the biggest project I have worked on at length to this date.)…

A Microcosm Of Everything

In a fractal universe, everything is a microcosm of everything else. Infinity is funny stuff. People usually think about infinity as being infinitely big–but they tend to forget that it is also infinitely small. It all spirals outward, then in again. It’s hard because any language you use to talk about this stuff just sounds…