This has repeatedly been a challenge for me in my spiritual training….how to detach from things or persons we love…for some reason in my professional life…this has never been a problem…as a registered nurse…I could work a 12 hour shift…often times through lunch breaks…managing crisis after crisis…being totally in every life saving moment…then walk away without blinking an eye…why in our personal relationships do people get so crazy…I am seeing a huge shift in myself…attempting to detach from everything…more in touch with myself…relationships…friendships…etc. Hold on to nothing and you will have everything. Why do I think this may be my best work ever…truly created from within…the art of conscious creation. (triptych 10×30 oil on linen canvas)
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Feel The Burn
19Aug08
Delicate In Scale
15Aug08
So what if I did an entire series of abstract bodies in this color scheme? I am on a mission…make atleast one home improvement per day…today it was new curtains for the living room. Now I have a mix and match style of gold and lace curtains…kind of funky…each window with a unique treatment…yet still a cozy improvement. Tomorrow will move a painting that matches perfectly to that space. Off to rescue a friend in need of art project help. Peaceful thoughts. (6×6 oil on linen, 1.5″ deep)
The Story Triptych
14Aug08
This is a gift from myself to be hung in my brown bathroom upon drying. Sexually energized dramas…seduction vs. enlightenment…intense emotions swirling around me in great speed…desires of higher passions…my dreams are opening illusions or realities…futile attempts to control…ultimate failure to understand…opportunists fill their satisfactions in crude desire…pointless energy dissipates into nothing…no judgement…no loss…selfish isolated power…the correct path out of the negativity…to find love…lifting consciousness…light…just random thoughts…. (6×18 oil on linen; 1.5″ deep)
Eiffel Tower Exposed
06Aug08
This is like the fourth time I have painted this…each time slightly different…it is guaranteed to sell thus I keep repainting. I am really digging the gold in this. I find gold really works well in grayscale color scheme. Interesting things are happening to me…and fast…my material intentions…houseboat in the keys to sell my art from…apartment in paris…paint…write books…wine…love… (8×8″ oil on canvas, 1.5″ deep)
How Has It Come To This
29Jul08This is an oldie…made some minor touchups to the entire series…now ready to be framed and hung. I am going to put out to the universe…I wish for a framer to frame my works of art. I really do not want to spend the time framing…that is an entire art form all to […]
Nymph for Pan
22Jul08
Well this painting is taking on a mythical look and feel…me thinks to turn this series into “the god was a lover of nymphs.” I really really like it…so much…it got placed on an easel on my front porch spreading the good energy out to the world. I am all about manifesting these days…laughing with a friend as we argue over who has manifested the perfect evening…of course we both did…just funny to actually be discussing the perfect randomness of it all. I was reading my latest self help book by the river yesterday afternoon…the last sentence said something like go and do something right now to improve your spiritual growth…my inner conversation went sort of like this…really…i have to physically do something…right now…like right now…all I could come up with was to take a walk on the side of my house to smell the flowers in my side bed…I did that…then ran into a friend…just so happened to be walking by…we had a delightful conversation re: how dreamy Obama was…enlightenment talk…then made dinner plans for later that evening. We manifested each other! Now I am off to manifest a tennis game. (18×24 oil on linen)
The Offering
21Jul08
There is a rainbow out there…the sun broke through this afternoon rain…went outside in search of it…have seen my share of rainbows this year….pure beauty…last night wrote my one woman monologue…what it is like to be a 30 something divorced woman…with two kids…dating in Montgomery Center, Vermont…much to poke jokes at in this limited yet abundant place….oxymoron…you only understand if you live here…in the bath…where I do my strongest power-writing…snickering…I reread my work…the drops of sudsy smudged ink make it difficult to restring the thoughts back together…my personal gibberish writing has taken on a new tone…for the first time feel confident…like I am really writing from my voice…imagining my French arms flailing retlling my outlandish story…embellished with the usual Christine flair…the kind my inner circle rubs their bellies…laughing so hard it hurts…some funny stuff. I am reposting this…I added a subtle metallic gold…originally was going to make two paintings out of this…something tells me the juxtaposition adds to it…the offering…my gut says to frame it as one. Thank-you Universe for not abiding to my calls earlier in life…for the importance of the shift first…entering the collective vortex…thank - you for allowing me this shift in consciousness….I can’t tell you how freaking psyched I am. (22×26 watercolor, ink, and oil on paper)
We Are Just Moments
15Jul08
I did this sketch a while back…today did it again…on a much larger scale…keeping in line with my most recent work on drawing paper. I am feeling much more confident making it as an artist. I should clarify…making it financially as an artist…every now and then things creep up…or a doubting Thomas will throw me off…it is getting much easier to snap out of those moments of self sabotage. I am gearing up for the Stowe Arts Festival at the end of the month…feeling secure Stowe will love my work. Nevertheless…I gave up using security as an excuse to block my creative dreams. (22×28 pencil on drawing paper)
Black Corset
11Jul08
So not what I set out to do today…for whatever reason…this is what i did…do I know my market…as much as I do cutesy artsy fartsy stuff…people are drawn to the erotic…maybe this is meant to be an eye catcher for the Stowe Festival. I am constantly thinking and rethinking my habitual thoughts…thus creating and recreating the same kind of events or circumstances. It is changing all the time. Maybe tomorrow…since the kids are at their dads…I will do a lighter more zen like painting…similar to yesterdays. Art is a state of mind…to create without thought…much more my style. (22×26 watercolor, ink, and pencil on paper)
Open Communication
08Jul08
Nothing wrong with healthy sex…people who have hangups with the most honest communication known to man belong in a mental institution. I have sort of been on sabbatical from writing about sex…probably due to some funky insecurities around the issue. Exhibiting an improved headspace…able to manifest this cute young thing of a musician. I still can not even believe I created this…quizzically looking at him…as if he would dissipate to air-like crystals into the atmosphere. The best part about it is…its not going to last forever…he will evaporate…part of the miseducation of Christine…I think I am going to switch to watercolor…enjoying the simple feminine look and feel it gives…my ability to use oils seems harsh and stark…so not the effect I am going for. (5×7 watercolor)
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