Tag Archives: painting
Hello Sardinia! Where’s the fish?
Today’s ephemeral adventurer is another paper boat. I’ve enjoyed researching each place featured on my art cards and using that info for my Etsy descriptions and blog posts. But I was a little distraught today after learning that Sardinia was not, in fact, named after sardines. In my head was this vision of a… Continue Reading
New Art: Blue Jizo
Jizo Boddhisattva is a Buddhist saint and protector of children and travelers through physical and spiritual worlds. Jizo is often depicted sitting in the hell realms as he has taken a vow to not enter into full enlightenment until hell is empty, so he sits there saving all the trapped beings. One of the ways… Continue Reading
Killer Kiss
Killer Kiss (Sonnenizio on a line from Regina Spektor) You’re going in, in for the kill, kill. For the killer kiss that tips the boat and flips the keel so it swings like an ivory blade against blue sky and we, off-kilter, unskilled sailors that we are, strike for the shore. Sure, the waves are… Continue Reading
Love Poem For A Moon
*** One night the tide refused to turn and the moon, distraught, abandoned her orbit and wheeled away. Nights fell darker and the tideline teemed with confusion as the soldier crabs waved their claws and wobbled off. Rock pools, having lost their Cyclops-eye, became invisible against the sea and sulked as shallow-creatures rolled blindly inside… Continue Reading
New Labyrinth Painting
Somewhere in the lead-up to the New Year I found time to do another labyrinth painting, on a real canvas. This was sitting around half finished for about six weeks, staring gloomily, reproachingly, at me. I scanned this in, and the background came out a bit darker (gloomier) than in real life. Now I’ll have… Continue Reading