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When Art Preserves a Legacy
Written in collaboration with Tat Apab’yan Tew. In February, I traveled to southern Guatemala with Maya Daykeeper Apab’yan Tew to put the final touches on the spiritual travel program we would lead in...
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Book Review: The Muralist
I read B. A. Shapiro’s bestseller The Art Forger when it came out and enjoyed it immensely. When art is the backdrop against a true-life story, and I can learn something along the way, I’m...
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Retrospective, Part I
I had an invitation from an art docent group to speak about my work a few weeks ago. Since I’m a narrative artist, the subject was art as a form of storytelling. Their preferred method was a PowerPoint...
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Retrospective, Part II
Several months ago, I was listening to Elizabeth Gilbert’s 2016 interview of Neil Gaiman on her podcast Magic Lessons discussing the creative process and other people’s expectations. If you’ve done...
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One By One
There are aspects of life I largely keep to myself. Not because I’m withholding—but because they’re too sacred to put into words. I’m quite sure that’s true for a number of readers here. When such...
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Spiritual Travel and the Vanquishing of Dryness
It’s normal for a state of connection to wax and wane, to sometimes experience great spiritual presence and other times less or none at all. We’re human and influenced by so much swirling around us....
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An Offering from the Heart
A couple of months ago, the newly established Museum of Beadwork in Portland, Maine sent a call out for bead artists to participate in a very special project, which would become part of their...
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Art and Energy
There is something about Marshall Arisman’s paintings that is…alive…like they’re going to spring right off the canvas. I’ve never experienced them in person, and if they have this effect on me only by...
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The Esoteric Art of Mystic Hilma af Klint
There’s a good chance you haven’t heard of Hilma af Klint unless you’ve been to a show or seen articles on the flurry she’s now creating as major exhibitions of her artwork are gaining momentum,...
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Revelations in Process
Once I made a true commitment to my artwork, to reach into deeper recesses of myself, to somehow translate what I found there onto a surface, I noticed something interesting. Whenever I would see an...
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