Today I call myself an artist. I protect the copyrights of my work. I will keep forging ahead with my creative spirit, Seeking to invent, innovate, dream, reinvent, and make I will trust who I am and want to be. I will reach out in a spirit of collaboration to those I trust. I willContinue reading “Affirmations: Dreaming in the Cane”
Art, mud flats and healing
It was a week of turning points. Full of art, artistic opportunities, reflection on what is important and steps to better health. This week I met Sasi Victoire, an amazing artist, and was delighted to go to her house. I had heard about her through the Book Creator’s Circle, and it turns out we knowContinue reading “Art, mud flats and healing”
Protected: Nobility, excellence
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A breakfast in fur and nightmare angels: Surreal Muses
My muses for today are the female surrealists, Dorothea Tanning, Meret Oppenheim and Remedios Vara who had to find a voice in surrealism where the men often made women the object of desire in their creations. It took Oppenheim sometime to realise her artistic freedom, for although she had much success with her Fur LinedContinue reading “A breakfast in fur and nightmare angels: Surreal Muses”
Pandora’s Box of Imagination: Confessions of a Budding Novelist
So over the weekend my close writing confidant read the chapters I had already completed on the novel, and the verdict was close to my own, some settings and characters have to be saved for other books. I need to streamline. Imagine doing that with close personal friends who you know the whole history of.Continue reading “Pandora’s Box of Imagination: Confessions of a Budding Novelist”