Currents of Curiosity
Whispering Walls | oil on panel | 24” x 24” | Sold
Curiosity is one of our most important inner possessions.
Sharing our “Curiosity Gemstones” with others is an act of caring. People feel like they matter (generally) when someone’s questions show an interest that goes beneath surface conversation.
Focusing our “Curiosity Lens” within is an ever illuminating practice. The questions we ask ourselves reveal the answers to the wider, deeper truths that live in our personal shadows and light.
Curiosity is the cornerstone of our artistic process. It is a match that lights artistic inspiration and a thread that weaves our work to resolution. It leads us zigzagging through constructing and destructing in the development of our artwork, over and over. Curiosity beckons us to keep going forward.
So! I invite your curiosity to “travel” through this collection of musings. These snippets from each piece caught my attention, leading me to the conclusion that everything correlates with the flow of polarity that’s inherent in the process of making art.
Including Halloween!
The definition of a deep truth is that its opposite is also true. And so: the despair I’m feeling now makes hope . . . It is in a time like this that another word I use often — accompaniment — rises up as most necessary and urgent.
- Krista Tippett’s words
The Pause: October 28, 2023
On Shaping Technology to Human Purpose
In any collection of humans, there are diminishers and there are illuminators. Diminishers are so into themselves, they make others feel insignificant. Illuminators, on the other hand, have a persistent curiosity about other people.
- David Brooks’s words
The Essential Skills for Being Human
She is able to hold the enormous beauty of the world and the suffering simultaneously, and she doesn’t let one get out ahead of the other.
- Ann Patchett’s words
Margaret Renkl Writes in the Space Between Grief and Hope
In a time when everything’s gone virtual, Halloween costumes represent an old-fashioned commitment to the physical world.
- Melissa Kirsch’s words
Ghostly Presence
