The key. Everyone is looking for this key. Do you know who holds it? Whose hands it has always been entrusted to? The artists. The writers, the poets. The creative. Across the centuries creators have held the key to the imagination. And the key to the imagination is the key to everything. Writers imagine whole worlds. Poets catch verse out of thin air. Artists shut their eyes and see an apple in their mind. Spots, colors, size, wormholes; every part of that specific imaginary apple. And if you can do that, conjure up an apple in your mind, imagine what type of world you could create- if you put your mind to it. It all starts with you. Internally. In your imagination. So let your vision flow forth, into our vision starved world and begin the most human and divine experiment possible. Creation. It’s what you came for.
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Janet Balboa (#janetbalboa) is an artist, writer and teacher living in the Chicago suburbs. Read more
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Queen of Hearts!!! Happy Valentines Day.
Today's work! I think I just invented Therapy Suns...they have been this to me for sure.
All these crazy kitchen hearts are connected to the ceiling by thread from my Grandma Janet's old wooden spools, which remind me of her - along with cookies and reading and 'secret' breakfasts together.
12° outside. Snow...and more on the way, yet, here comes a Sun. The Green Man completed on a New Moon (almost). Very auspicious sounding. And that is a nice thing, because this is how my hours are spent today.
This will be the second time I am teaching this 6 week class. I am teaching it from my own experience of composing a work of art.
A Sun for a snowy day! ❄ It's my first sun on stretched linen. I usually paint on wood. Haven't decided how I feel about painting on linen.
Sneak preview of my fine art prints (coming next week!)
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ApPEARently pears are on the menu this morning. I don't know.why, but this is what I wanted to do.