Tag: art

On queued thoughts, Frida, fortitude, erudites & trauma.

I poured my coffee and opened the day’s delivery—a fresh harvest in my inbox, stacks of printed words, and queued thoughts, itching to be read. Then, many reads later, as usual, I strayed off the beaten path and into the web’s untamed thickets.

This caught my attention.

Maria Popova’s journal is one of my subscribed reads. Brilliant intellect.

In this article, Popova illuminated the inner fortitude Frida possessed to endure incredible suffering and trauma. Maria Popova skillfully revealed Frida’s vulnerability and challenges that tortured her, something I feel was overshadowed in the public eye by her intense creativity and rebellious personality.

The Courage of Vulnerability: Teenage Frida Kahlo’s Moving Letters to Her First Love

Frida.

Isabella & the Pot of Basil

I came across this find perusing the web.

William Holman Hunt – Isabella and the Pot of Basil, 1867

William Holman Hunt. I came across his story and his works. Wow. An amazing artist who lived quite a controversial life. What moved me? The colors. The textures. The realism. Hard to believe it’s a painting; his work is so intensely realistic.

On amazing artwork. Iceland Poppy. Wabi-Sabi. Fiction.

I came across this beauty today. What intense detail and vibrancy!!!!???? And with colored pencils??? Absolutely amazing. David Morrison. Very talented.

Morrison mentions Wabi Sabi…Now, that happens to be my thing – or at least one of them.

I am intrigued by the incomplete and the stunning beauty of imperfection, along with the natural wear and tear of nature.

And the intentionally incomplete? – noticing the beauty of that suspended moment? – It definitely influences my work.

I’m currently putting together a project.

I am experimenting and trying to come up with a ‘novel’ (pun intended!) way to present/’tell’/publish a collection of fiction I have written. I want to weave them together into a complex, endless’ tale.

I’m going to house this expanding tapestry of interwoven tales and tangled fibers of fiction in its own site…hopefully soon.

I can see that this project has many ‘wabi-sabi’ characteristics.

My project? My work? Long story…and complicated…but what isn’t ‘complicated’ nowadays????