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The Tiger and the Swan
Authors note: I wrote and illustrated this story over 15 years ago. I never really did anything with it except to send it to one publisher and read it to the Quaker Friends Sunday School, and to my elementary students in Washburn, WI. Some recent events made me...
Visionary Painting
Visionary Painting is a very broad term that many people claim. In my opinion they are all valid but they are all not the same.I am not borrowing other's philosophies that speak to me and making illustrative collages with known images in order to communicate my...
Ancestors – India
To speak of Ancestors of to speak of the past in its human form. Dad leaving IndiaAn Ancestor Cape I finished this weekAll my life I’ve thought about India. Before I was born my father left on a ship. It set his life on a course that took him...
Layers, Labyrinths and Ancestors
Mughals Dream 1996I've been so busy sewing cloth lately I can't find time to write, but I have thoughts floating through my mind that threaten to leave me if I don't give them my full attention. Thoughts can be fickle and needy that way. But perhaps...
A Brief Introduction to Ancestry Cloth
I made a promise to myself that I would start to write about art again when I felt like I had something to say, something worth putting out into the world. That’s a heavy proposition. Who has something relevant to say? With all the voices on the...
The Journey
It's one of many overused phrases in our culture, that, once full of possibility, have become slogans that sell everything. (especially cars) But... nevertheless... I have to start this post with these words:It is not the destination.It IS the...
I’m back… writing about art
I finished this painting today, stopping at a point that I would have not been able to leave alone in the past.I've been thinking about getting back into the habit of writing about art lately. I've probably been thinking about it for more than two months, but it...
Sentience
Sentience is the ability to feel, perceive or experience subjectively. Eighteenth-century philosophers used the concept to distinguish the ability to think (reason) from the ability to feel (sentience). In modern Western philosophy, sentience is the...
Sentient Speech
Today it occurs to me that the language of the Sentient Beings has to be poetryWork in Progress: "Chances of Drowning"But I argue, "I'm not a poet." Well, I'm not a good one.I don't know what to do."A Pigeon Post."Just sit backand listenIn progress: "A...
Sentient Beings among the Humans
The world of the Sentient Beings has always been here. It's just that we don't always see.The Sentient Beings were in danger of becoming invisible to all. Jackal turned himself into a man, and tried to convince the people that these beings exist, are all...