Beginner’s Mind
These pictures are from a walk I took down the road. As I walked I opened myself to the liminal world that is always right in front of us but most of the time we are lost in our thoughts…
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Notes From the Mark making Class
…as we wander into that free zone of making marks—marks that don’t “make sense, marks that our habitual thinking can’t quite tame—we begin to notice some of the marks in our world…the handprint on glass…scratches in the soil…an array of…
Finding One’s Beat
Deepening our Relationship to the Imaginal
As a result of yesterday’s meditation and the resulting painting, I made a decision regarding a problem I wasn’t resolving that had been taking its toll mentally and emotionally, when I see the resulting image all thoughts were resolved and…
More Classes Coming in the Fall
In the fall, we will add more classes to become available for sign up. Level 1 : Mark making for non artists. Level 2: Marking making next steps for non artists. Level 3 Mark making for artists and non artists…
New Class Being Offered
Mark Making for People Who Can’t Draw An experimental, informal gathering to re-introduce ourselves to markmaking materials and the experiences they evoke. Six sessions, free of charge. We will convene via Zoom, 4 – 5:30 pm Pacific Time, on Mondays…
Lens of the Heart
Art Making as Training for Death
Glimpses into the Vastness
It’s not that you attain the goal, but that all the light in the universe, falling toward you forever, finally arrives in your body. Excerpt from Another Cup, Savor Eternity One Moment at a Time Alfred K. Lamotte
Bold Connections,Fine Discernments
In a recent Level Two Markmaking class, we reached inwardly toward a strongly-held value or commitment, picking up a large bush and swathing ink across large papers to respond to what we found. At our subsequent session, we revisited this…
Courting the Imaginal
Sweep Clean the chambers of the heart. We glimpse into the vastness of other realities by observing, our inner terrain to allow ourselves to be available for what the imaginal wishes to express. We listen and see the image and…
Slowly Slowly
Esso Esso The times are urgent; let us slow down. African saying As we listen to our bodies, our inner life, and to process the world at large, we move into a quiet, hidden, protected space to allow our vulnerablities…
LONGING
Our Bodies are a Visual Resource
I just completed a series of classes with a group of young lovely woman. We worked with learning to see our bodies as an embodiment of presences that teem with life. The body is an endless resource of imaginative possibilities.…
Field of Gold
Preparing gleaming surfaces, their light such joy to the hungry eye… gold has been used for centuries with cinnabar and lapis to speak of awe.
Befriending the lack of Control
One remarkable thing about engaging with markmaking that includes water is that, when we add water to an initial water-soluble mark we have made, that mark begins to MOVE…it bleeds into adjacent marks…it sends a narrow stream down the page…it…