January 6th, 2017
Day 6 Poetry Challenge
Uncertainty
From deep within
Layers of Euphemia
delicate like a woven silk
Aging parchment
Covers hide scars
Of pain,
weighty desires
of peace
She wanders
Tracing maps
Fingertips
framing out
new places
in her disturbed
mind
to go
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LadyO©In the year 2017 of conflict and wandering aimlessly ©
What makes you tick when you work… I have been listening to a lot of music of late… I know when I stir feelings, I will have a surge of electricity I need to create something deep. I ask again, what makes you tick before you write, make art, use a flame of a torch to melt metal?
What pushes you forward, what feelings will strip you to your core to create your art, love, hate, controversy…WHAT? What pushed major artists, hopelessness, hurt, I try to feel deeply what the human condition is, even the ugly, to feel the feelings and allow them to pass through my being, push them though, then the magic happens.
Eminem – Love The Way You Lie ft. Rihanna
Work in Progress…. just a peek into what is happening
Those that know me and have known me, know that I pretty much am an empath… I love crystals, rocks, painting, collage art, music and poetry. I have been known to write a little myself. I am a creature who loves, and loves deeply.
I have heartaches, losses and regret, but most of all I have hope for the human condition.
I hope most of all.
Coming soon to my Etsy Site will be some small art projects. I do hope you will join me there.
with Love
and most of all Hope
Rihanna – We Found Love ft. Calvin Harris
I am working on some Art Boxes for the Winter Holidays. I just happened to start working on them near Halloween, Day of the dead, Día de Muertos and All souls day… do you practice or celebrate one or all of them? I am an Anglican / Episcopalian by belief but also believe many things as I age.
All Souls Day Anglicans view All Souls’ Day as an extension of the observance of All Saints’ Day and it serves to “remember those who have died”, in connection with the theological doctrines of the resurrection of the body and the Communion of Saints.[7][8 (Wiki)
My box is a collection of things I love, I love Frida and what she represented to other women and how she told her own truth. She lived her own truth too, politically, as an artist, as a lover, as a person who lived in severe pain throughout her life. I honor her life.
Back View
Today, as I make art I celebrate all the lives that came before me…
xoxox
nike
Dia de los muertos or Day of the dead:
Most people celebrate Day of the Dead out of love and commitment to their loved ones (Wiki)
Frida Kahlo
Image of Kahlo for Day of the Deadat the Museo Frida Kahlo
“Coyoacán día de muertos 08” by Guillerminargp – Own work.
“I’ve reached the point where I hardly care whether I live or die. The world will keep on turning without me, I can’t do anything to change events anyway.”
― Anne Frank, The Diary of a Young Girl
I thought it was just Fall — you know Autumn… Halloween is tomorrow! Now I am hearing that we need to have all holiday items in our web-based shops… eek! Oh my goodness. I have maybe two items made up! I will need to get busy on this. How are you doing, do you have Holiday items made up?
This is one —
I need new and better photos! Yikes and I need to build some new items for the Holiday Season! I put together some new boxes and will be working on them starting today!
Happy Friday to you all!
I think I will make some Mary Altar Boxes too!
Have a Fantastic Weekend
xo
nike
Purple Painted Ladies ACEO ATC that is 3 3/4 tall X 2 1/2 wide. hand collaged, Dresden foil shells, Rhinestones, small aluminum turquoise flowers, purple paint, beautiful vintage look pictures.
I have more art & jewelry items in the works too… see you soon!
xo
nike
I love making just about anything. My favorite item is to make small art. I do paint large pictures but at this time I feel lead to work in smaller pieces, more focused in the image and what I am attempting to say with the art.
I keep a small altar in my own room… Virginia Woolf (You cannot find peace by avoiding life. Virginia Woolf) is an author whose life and death has always spoken to me… to keep a room of ones own… I love small things, romantic things and ritual.. This quote by Ms. Woolf also speaks mightly to me “Lock up your libraries if you like; but there is no gate, no lock, no bolt that you can set upon the freedom of my mind.”
― Virginia Woolf, A Room of One’s Own
I need my own space, I keep my room sacred and have places to be still and quiet! I am an introvert so I need quiet.
The piece I am showcasing here is Saint Therese of Lisieux “The Little Flower.” I hope you enjoy viewing the piece. I has many beautiful features, pearls, crosses, a crown, rhinestones, what I call bling tape (!) paint, collaged pieces of paper, and words, peace and dream. It is something I wish for everyone, peace and dream, or really Dream Peace, for yourself and the entire Earth…
I do have it for sale on my Etsy site
Much love & peace
nike
She
crystallizes
in poems
that shake the core
of rice paper words
strong and thin
hollow point haunting
of expansion
inward
explosions
of the night
ne bottalicio
musingsilence
September 16, 2014 ©
I went to a meeting yesterday considering a place on a panel of other artists, it was quite educational and enjoyable. I plan on volunteering to jury other artists applying to sell their wares at the 23rd Street Artists‘ Market, in Austin, TX. The Market has been around since the 1970s. It has much historical and artistic value to the citizens, and local artists. I am thrilled to be a part of this! More soon
love
nike / musing silence
Read my work & see some art in the stolen poem Autumn/Spring 2012
This collage will be one of three, still working on it and will make two more.
love and peace
n
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