An Abundance of Light

With May comes changes. We've decided to try this new background, white.

Usually we use black as our background, but for today, and perhaps to continue, we are making the switch to white. Maybe we miss the snow.

Art always surprises, delights, and informs. Art is a level after level kind of thing, as are we all.

The studio is open, the temperatures are inviting, and we are making our way into spring with all the hopes and dreams we are given. We'll share these with you as they unfold.

Hope your day finds you awash in light and on to new adventures.

The Art of Spring Light

Spring light brings with it such a brilliance, not the kind of light off of the whiteness of snow, but the light from growing.

As artists we find the light in everything we see, from the brightness of outdoors to the shimmering brilliance of indoor glow. We can't help it. We see everything as alive with its own life, and that brings you to the radiance of resonance.

So many people see "things" as objects, and in doing so lose a good portion of their life to the limitation of insight.

Today it isn't rainy, yesterday it was, today it has a glow that is different than yesterday, but yesterday's rain had its own glow of softness.

Each day is a feeling, each day a living breathing day-ness.

Our studio is opening up more and more to our presence, as we are now able to be in it, weather-wise. The temperature is climbing into the 50's in Maine during the day, so with the sun comes the warmth we need to work.

The Spring light is glowing today, and we are ready to see what life there is to be had inside the studio.

Hope your day finds you aware of the light, whatever type it has decided to be for you. Share what it has to give with someone who cares.

Bright Light on a Rainy Day

There is such a bright burning light on a rainy day, the light of rain drops coming to us at such an accelerated rate. Each drop a gift beyond measure.

And so it is in the studio. You enter into such an accelerated rate, a new light speed, that you become available to light as a new opening into yourself.

We have been working on the little studio behind our house, once a one car garage, a small car, a car made in 1900. So we have made it into our studio, now called The White Rose Cottage, and we feel more elegant than being in a garage.

Our art comes out of movement, so the studio's history is fitting.

The rain today is filled with its own brightness, the sky is a light powder grey, and we are soaked with the feeling of water. Water color, water emotion, water sight. Swimming in water.

It is a bright day to be with art. Hope your day finds you in your own brightness.

We are taking the grand-children out for art time at the cafe, what a brightness that will be.

Light Positions Itself

                                               

     

Light positions itself for the ease of view, the studio receives the view and the acceptance is registered.

We are entering the inner-ness of Spring, as we open ourselves to the flowing rhythm of color.

The magic that happens happens because of our willingness to witness and be connected to the unfolding patterns of limitlessness.

This Spring we have waited for the ice to be out, and just now the walk to the studio is free of impediments. Today we enter the outer studio to feel the space and open to the new energy of this time.

It takes courage to do such a thing, to be available to something new, something different, something unseen in a certain way before. So we trust. We trust in the process, we trust in ourselves in the process, we become connected to what needs to unfold through its bending, it's folding, and its presence at this time.

Depending on your awareness and perception, all of it can be an adventure of great worth. We see it that way, it is our practice that has made it so for us.

We are in relationship with the unfolding magic that happens as it happens, each day a new day to be present in, each day a new adventure to unfold. 

We hold the magic, and it flows out at such times as it is ready to be received. Acceptance and love are the keys to its being held with honor and regard.

Art is all of this for us, we bring our trust, our vulnerability, and our courage. With these tools in hand, we are able to advance the patterns as the speak to us of their placement and their existence into time and space.

Hope this day finds you positioned to receive the Light that shows up in your life. See the gift and the pattern it brings to you.

Light Finds A Way to Make Us Comfortable

                                           

     

Light is such a mystery, and when we allow it to fill our emotions, the studio moves forward.

Spring is a time of changing light, changing rhythms, changing movement. As we embrace the artistry of the Soul and allow it to show us the gifts of the organic nature we are, and are within, then we come into a rhythm of bliss and gratitude.

Stepping back from limitations allows for more room to enter, and when room enters a room, the creative mystery can expand and grow. The visible mystery is the numinous expression of light given room to Be.

As artists, we enter the studio on the breath of Intention, we open our doors, and look. We see what is to be seen, we see the gift of it, and we create with the magic in hand. We allow the magic to grow, expand, and become more. As we allow it to become more, we become more.

Being able to look in a lighted way drops away the fear of something new, or different, or that familiar, seen in a new way. We come into the studio and allow the art within us to grow bigger. To be seen more alive than ever before, so that it can unlock the portals to new spaces.

Organic natural light within the studio begins with a deep breath, so that what can enter enters.

The magic that occurs happens because limitations are cast aside. Stepping back from fear, judgment, and those limits, creates a space where magic can rise up and be used to transform. 

Art is this rhythm, a visual drum, that when given safe haven, can resonate at the deepest levels. The beat of the visual can open you up to new levels of yourself, and this is where art heals us all.

Hope this day finds you able to be lighted by a different drum. Watch as the magic comes to your aid.

Artful Grace Within Confusion

                                                     

To art is to create with the flowing wild hair of nature. The studio is safe harbor for the different, unusual, odd, unknown, as well as the same, the usual, the known. It is in the studio that the alchemy happens, the mix occurs, and from the mixing of elements the confusion lifts and the light appears.

The appearance of light in an artful life happens when what was thought of one way, is allowed to become another way. Particle and wave at the same moment. Light was thought to be one or the other. It is now seen to be both. 

Our time as artists can be very confusing, trying, difficult to understand, yet we continue to enter the studio and allow ourselves to be present. Just present. And then, just present again. And what we find happening is a lifting, and elevation, into a deeper dive beneath surface to depth. Confusion is usually next to understanding, understanding next to allowing, allowing next to presence, presence next to light, light next to the numinous expression of wild.

Out of the wildness of the universe, we are. Art is the creative act of being, and being within the breath of light is where we are in the center of our studio, arting in a language beyond the limits we were taught in. Art is a grace within the confusion of seeing differently.

Hope this day finds you next to understanding, and being in a new body of art.

How Art Connects Us

                                            

Art connects us as a language of light. We enter the studio, throw open the doors and windows, and allow the daylight and the nightlight to come be with us.

We are in relationship with the inner well-spring of existence, we allow, we allow, we allow, and in this we are given. We give ourselves to the wild numinous light and are enwrapped in its safety. From this safe space we can express freely the natural organic nature of artfulness. 

To art is to see, to see deeply, to see, to gaze, to hold the gaze and allow the gift its presence. In the gaze is the room, the expanse, the breath. Breathe deep.

We work in so many levels, layers, dimensions, that as we travel, we must be aware of the gift we are being given. Compassion for ourselves and other, as the light of art brightens our life and those around us.

An adventure is what art is. It will take you to places that others have said don't exist, it will take to you the deep below. There you must learn to breath all over again. 

The studio teaches you to breathe, to look, to see, to gaze, to hold the gaze so that you can feel the freedom and feel safe in the light of new, different, unusual, odd, unknown, or known differently.

Hope this day finds you excited to be able to see beyond life's limits, to be aware of the lighted gifts that come your way.

Light Art Delivered

                                                  

We have art delivered to us all the time. It arrives with the speed of light. Being willing to create with the light is the creative will of artists.

The time artists have to create is time they choose. Many choose inner time over outer time, in order to do the deep work they dive for.

As we allow the light into us more deeply, we are able to ride its wave and particle. We become merged and the creative expression becomes the wild nature of the nature of nature. 

To be present to the sight within your own studio awareness, to gaze into, with the allowing nature of the numinous expression, is to be free and folded into the safety of the creative flow. To hold the gaze and allow it to expand, allows the artist the travel time in the inner depths. 

Looking, seeing, gazing, all the sight of allowing the creative, room to be, to grow, expand, to rise and become more. There is an art in the flowing, the growing, the expanding, the rising. The studio gives the artist the safe space to express the need, want, and desire of the sacred.

We move our time, we move our space, always with the studio open to the allowing nature, and in doing so we come more deeply in touch with the wild haired nature of our art.

Hope this day finds you gazing, and holding that gaze, into the wild nature in your life. Allow it more room and watch it grow.

Art of the Art

                               

The willingness, subtlety, and security folds around us and our art can move forward. It is an art to be able to move the light in its many expressions.

The studio is open to this subtle nature, secure in its approach within the willingness to see. We each enter into a field of enfolded art, as we float in a sea of light, allowing it to wash over us, it's vision given to us as a gift.

To gaze upon the opening is to approach a new field of energy, to hold the gaze is to be enwrapped in the nature of the numinous spirit of an artfulness that is wild, free, and unencumbered. We grow from this ability to see, and our sight is expanded.

Art is an adventure, always taking you to places unexpected, unrealized, unknown, unfamiliar, until you expect them, realize them, are familiar with them. That is its gift.

Hope this day finds you able to gaze, to see until you are on an adventure with the art of the subtle willing nature, securely wrapped in the numinous light of your need, want, and desire.

From All Ways Always

                                              

Art comes to you from all ways, always it arrives. The light is what we are looking for, to, to begin each day. The night gives it rest, the rest of the day. The day gives us the night with the lights on.

We have to look, to see. We have to want, to need, to desire, for the arrival. 

The studio. The self studio opens up when we want to enter, need to enter, desire to enter. That's when the light shows up. It always shows up in all ways.

The studio is the difference. If you haven't gone into the studio of yourself, thrown open the windows and propped open the door, the light isn't the same as when you do. Intention.

We create art all day long, we make art when we allow ourselves the freedom to see, to hold the gaze, to feel the want, to need the communication with the wild hairedness within the natural.

That's when the color comes up, the rise to the surface from the deep below makes itself present, and we allow ourselves to be taken in. We are, as artists, taken in, in to the numinous realm, the light without limits, so that we can grow. We grow like a plant in the full sun, we grow like a plant in the partial shade, and we grow like a plant that is shade loving.

All conditions, all ways, always. We find our way by being available to the new, the different, the wild haired, the unusual, the familiar seen anew. All these ways we are willing to see. We lengthen our capacity to gaze, as a plant does toward the sun, and are given renewal, strength, endurance, and compassion for being willing to see.

Hope this day finds you following the sight you are given as a gift, taking it all in, in all ways, and always sharing your creative nature as a natural part of who you are.

Art Supplied

                                                  

    

Art is supplied through our acceptance that art Is. We are so fortunate to be people that want art in the world, that we see it's wholeness being needed, wanted, desired.

It's our wild-hairedness that allows us to be aware of the need, want, and desire.

Safety is something inside of art that the artist finds when diving into a body of work. Inside the work, which is inside the studio body, the doors are free to be open, the windows allowed to be raised, because inside the work there is a safe haven that the atmosphere and environment have been aligned to.

Alignment is essential for the body and the art to communicate, to converse one to the other. The other is the gaze that opens, like a window, to let in the fresh, wild wind that blows through the bones of the soul.

When we look at the lighted presence of the wild hair, we are making ourselves available, to be transformed from an old self into a new self, and since we are forever changing, it is a natural occurrence to be present to the wild nature that shakes and rattles and rolls us into a new perspective from a position of stasis.

Hope today finds you opening your gaze wider, longer, and with an appreciation for the gift light's wild hair gives.

The Wild Hair of Light

                                                

  

Light can be a wild hair. It comes, sometimes, when you are looking, it comes, sometimes when you are thinking about something else, it comes, sometimes when you aren't looking for it.

The light expression can be a wild hair, not fitting in to the tidy, groomed, clipped idea that we were taught, or grew up with, or thought of as right from wrong. Light can just show up all rumpled, all ungroomed, all wild eyed and wild haired.

The studio opens its doors to the free flow, and when you have that kind of studio, you can be sure the wild hair will show up. For that matter, if you have the kind of studio that has its doors all tightly locked, it's windows shut and latched, you can really be sure the wild hair will show itself.

As artists, we allow the light to penetrate us, it's wildness we breathe in deeply, because that light has been through the cosmos to reach us. THAT is wild. What it takes for anything to occur is an amazing, wondrous thing. Art is amazing, a wonder, and a mysterious connection with light. To us, many times, it  is a numinous experience, filled with more than we ever could imagine. 

The way the new occurs, is by letting the light open you up with its wildness, it's wild hairs, it's unclipped nature. To set your gaze up the wild nature, is to allow the flowing grace of light to illuminate you from the inside out. 

Our door opens late into the night, the studio lit from within, the wild hairs flowing with the ancient knowledge of organic, we present ourselves to the creative force that moves through us. It nurtures us, allows us to find new ways to travel, new ways to come in touch with the larger light that bathes us in a glow of acceptance and safety.

We are blessed to be in the center of our artistry, the language spoken and unspoken, the movement seen and unseen, the gathering of elements that create the alchemy of our expression.

Hope this day finds you finding a wild hair, one that you resist clipping. See what you see with the wild hair as a guide instead of a detriment.

The Mystery of Light

The mystery of the light is that it Is. And art Is, and creativity Is. 

We are marked by the light to be lit. Always there, we see it when we show up.

The studio is the show up place, as is the cafe, the walk outdoors, the snow, the breakfast, anyplace that you intend to see the upward spiral.

We are working, listening, looking in the direction of the sound we hear from the inside out. From the inside out we find safe harbor, safe haven, and we can openly express the creative nature of ourselves as it is opened to us.

The magic comes alive, and it can flow with the nature it is given to, and the artistry opens more because of it. The sight is transformed, as the gaze is allowed its time to take in the new, the different, the strange, the known and unknown.

We are allowing ourselves to stretch, to reach, to open. We rise forward to the energy and we touch into the magic of ourselves.
The light rises, expands, and flows into us and from us. It is a communication. 

As artists, we find the mystery carries us forward. We breathe in a breath, and in the breath we find our safe space, we are able to relax into our expressive nature, and share the light in the allowing of its presence.

As we strengthen our gaze, we strengthen ourselves, the light becomes so familiar that we feel the comfort it gives and we are able to share the creating more easily.

The Mystery of light unfolds its nature, and loving to create adds its mark on us all. The gaze is such a gift, it sees the opening light and allows it in. The studio expands and our door opens to the Intention of grace.

Light is not a Distraction

                                              

In an artful life, light is not a distraction. Magic is not a distraction, if fact the magic of light is used to convey, or transmit the sharings of energy. 

In an artful life the light of magic is in the studio, and when the studio is lit, there is magic going on. It certainly feels that way, as we find our way during the process and progress of the work.

It seems lately the night time studio is busy creating, inside the mystery, the pieces that fit together with the day time patterns. As these pieces come together, they form a body of work that connects us to the deeper meaning and the larger picture.

We go into the studio to feel our way into what is being asked and what is being answered. We make ourselves available to the view, and as we view, our gaze is transformed into a grace of acceptance of the new, the different, the strange, the powerful, the unknown.

We are not distracted and we do not distract, rather we share what we are given to share. It is the light we find when we go deep inside, the studio gives us a safe space to express freely, we grab the magic wand and like music, allow the flow to occur.

Hope this day finds you will to see an artful life expressing life and the magic it has to give.

Light Allowed

Art comes with light inside it. 

Given safe haven it can actually glow, and light up, because with the door to the heart open, and the windows allowing fresh air in, you can breathe in a sigh of relief and create.

As artists we bring to the studio our need, want, and desire, and become present to the Present. We become one with the unfolding nature of an origamic bend, we allow the curve to show us the way forward, we allow the rounded passage to lead the way.

In this present journey we have been layered into depth with the whiteness, the layering of the snow, as it shows us the information before our eyes. The stillness, the quiet, then the movement; the sight, the stretch, and reach into the void. We trust this process, our studio self is entered by the gaze that allows, and we drop into safety, the safety of creation.

As we create, we are in touch with our Divine self, the one forever in touch with the magic that brings something from nothing, new from old, familiar to new, old to refreshed and liberated. We hold on to our magic wand and it emits light.

The new body of work brings our body into a numbered presence, and the texture, fiber, and thread are woven into a journey, that brings compassion, harmony, and well-being, from the deep dive of a watered presence.

The emotional body of art is lit, it's colors are selected though the feelings, and as you art, you are connected to the threads of an ancient sacred passage.

We feel this with each new stage of our practice, our work, our creativity.

In the between we find answers uncommon to many, yet real and filled with grace for us, as we travel the patterns. The night yawns its self into our lives and we live in both worlds, available and present.

Hope this day finds you present to an ever-unfolding journey, one that nurtures your vision, and expands your creative expression.

Art As A Body

                                            

      

Our art has a body, is a body, has a life, is a life of its own. This is a body of work.

As artists we have a deep abiding relationship with work, a sacred practice, a daily, moment by moment companionship with our creativity. And this creates an embodiment of all that we have entered.

In our inner studio, our doors and windows are our heart and eyes, the roof, our head, the floor we stand upon, our feet, rooted into the deep rich earth of the fecundity of our digited numbers.

We are never not inside our art, always present to its presence, and it is always there. Sometime quiet, sometime loud,whatever is needed to Be.

We have found when we feel the most lost, it is the most found, when we feel the most found, it is the most present. Always there, always there, always there.

And we are fleshed books, we are the books we write, the 40 books published and the many many more ready to be published, we are the pages, we are inside the words, we are the images, the photography, collages, paintings, sculpture, we are the volume.

We are employed by the volume and lit by the fire of our creativity. These words you read are threaded and woven from the years of travel and deep listening, they come from the books Su.Sane has written, the books we create and add the images of the body of art. Here the two bodies meet, the body of writing and the body of art, here they merge and become the magic a book is. 

A volume. Something so thin that you can carry it in your hand. We employ our books everyday, they are filled to over-flowing with words that carry what the deep dive can give you.

As artists and writers, we are neither, and both. Our life expresses itself this way, the way of listening, in a body that is open to being lighted.

Hope this day finds you in relationship with what you are listening. Share what you hear where it can nurture.

Art Lights Up

                                                  

Art lights up, if you want to be lighted. Art always illumines, art that comes from the inside out. The light shines its mystery.

Thing is, you have to want to be lit to be lit. You are always lighted, but to see the light, you have to want to see the light. Yours or anyone else's.

Art helps you find where you are unlimited. The light is there for you, it helps you find what you are looking for. The light helps you assimilate; the new, the raw, the judged, the beyond, those pieces of light that are not yet understood.

As artists we able to enter the studio of the self of ourself and participate in the discovery of all the light has to give. We just appear there and the light shows up. We make ourselves available, and that is the thing, to be available. These days of winter find us buried deep in the layers and layers of snow, the felted water, as Su.Sane calls it, and we burrow down and down and down, swimming beneath the surface of things.

In the beneath, we listen, we wait, we write, we listen, we wait, the muse, we look out the window of our studio and watch the snow felt another layer. So much information. An overwhelming amount of information. Time to assimilate, allow the light to penetrate us, be open to what comes. 

The vision of images come forward, they will spring into view in 3 weeks time, the Spring Equinox. The Great Unfolding.

Allow this time to be. Let the light penetrate you, unlock you, open the door to your studio. Make yourself available.

Hope this day finds you wanting to be lit, it's how the light enters the door of your studio.

Light As It Appears

                                       

When you open yourself; the door to your studio open, the breath open, the judgement and criticism cast aside as the embarrassment they are, then you can see clearly when the light appears.

It can appear when you are dreaming in your sleep, it can appear when you are wide awake, it can appear in the twilight, that in-between state as you leave one world for another.

When you take a breath in the presence of light, you take in the sight you were present for, the studio expands and you expand with it. Your creative energy begins to flow more easily. 

The desire to see brought the light, the need brought the space that intersects, and the want brought you forward into your own creativity.

Light is there to illuminate, to fulfill the moment in its presence beyond limitation. This is the numinous state of creativity, this is when you know your body is part of the equation, the numbers unfolding their patterns of in sight.

As artists, we look to these moments, as they are markers of initiation into an ever expanding level of unlimitedness. We are in the space of a new level of our work. It is a meditation to see all that is there for us to work with. We make ourselves vulnerable, our studio door stands open late into the night, we create an atmosphere in the in-between. We are raw to right action, the numbers quicken the rise, so the understood can become strong. The stretch of purpose makes itself visible, to feel reality, the generosity of the night comes forward. The velocity of timing comes forward for the face to see.

The gaze creates an entry into the door of dreams, the sight is fully understood, and internal ecstasy becomes more sacred. We travel, the volume of life relaxes into the pose of creative expression. Art, the ancient wisdom, connects in the perspective, as the memory sees the gift that sight gives.

All is woven into the center, in the making of a visionary experience. The sacred comes ready for the soul. 

Art is a mystery, one where time does not collide with space. We move forward, we grab our magic wand and wave it around, creating something new from something old, creating something new from something never before seen, creating something that has been seen before, but now in a whole new light. The sight is unlocked.

Thanks goes to Su.Sane, for the "SIRIUS MYSTERIES". Many phrases from her book were woven into today's writing, as they entered into sharing, from her deep sacred writing. They fit with what is unfolding, bringing deeper understanding to the mystery of things. Allow the light and magic a place to be, a safe haven that reaches all the way back to the stars.

Hope this day finds you able to see beyond the limits, into a new space, and that you are able to embrace this for yourself.

Artedness

February 24

                                             

Artedness happens when what you were doing becomes recognized. Art does not wait for recognition from outside forces, but rather from its own center.

Art, centered in this brilliance, shines. Art that shines is capable of creating more than what meets the eye. In order to come to Artedness, the center is opened inside the artist, the center of the studio-ed self is receptive to the visit.

The visit comes in the breath of a moment take in and mixed with the desire, the need, the word heard. Into the studio, into the breath, into the deepest need, the desire, the hunger to be fed by the deepest well spring, art arrives. Always. Art never not arrives.

Artedness is inner sight, brilliant and non-blinding. The intention of light is not to blind, but to illuminate. Don't stare at the light bulb, rather look around the room and see what is being lit.

The studio is lit with the light of breath mixed with the strength of need, want, and desire 

un-embarrassed by their existence. The studio uses these elements and paints with the color of each one. From this all is created.

Hope your day finds you arted in the fullness of who you are being. Then share it.

Breakfast Art

February 20

Art that comes in the early morning, sometimes known as breakfast art, is an art of a particular nature.

Breakfast art can come with an empty stomach, just waiting for a full plate to be served, it can sometimes come with a curious stomach, what do I want today?

Art, as it turns out, comes to you, as much as you come to it.

Who feeds who, mm?

When you hunger enough, you have enough of a need, then art finds you, no matter what the circumstance. Art finds a way in, and it finds a way out.

People are hungry for art, because people grow hungry every day. 

It is easy coming to art, through the hunger that occurs every day.

Hope your day finds you hungry enough to chew on the idea that art comes with an empty stomach. Share a full bowl with it when you can.