by Dawn Patel | Jan 9, 2015 | art and nature, art for sale, artists process, dawn patel, dawn patel art, ecology, mind, nature and technology, never-ending story, Positive Psychology, sentience, sentient beings, Sentient Potential, technology
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...
by Dawn Patel | Dec 15, 2014 | alley, birds, deception, fox, jackal, mystery, never-ending story, parallel universe, past lives, sentient beings, sidewalk, stories, storytelling, wolf
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...
by Dawn Patel | Dec 13, 2014 | contemporary storytelling, deception, disguise, fables, lifetimes, make-believe, masquerade, never-ending story, parallel universe, quantum theory, reincarnation, stories, storytelling
mas·quer·adeˌmaskəˈrād/noun1. a false show or pretense.”his masquerade ended when he was...
by Dawn Patel | Dec 11, 2014 | animals, creative process, creativity, dawn patel art, fables, fox, jackal, lessons, life is stranger than fiction, moon, mystery, myth, nature, never-ending story, sentient beings, stories, storytelling, wolf
More Jackal… she is Dancing Jackal, after a long journey via magic arrow. During the long and reckless journey she is pierced by the arrow and has to land in a canyon where there is no escape. Dancing Jackal does not have the patience...
by Dawn Patel | Nov 26, 2014 | Eagle Eye, fables, fairy tales, lessons, life, mystery, mystery stones, myth, never-ending story, Seer, sentient beings, storytelling, visionary art, visions, wisdom
The story I am telling with the Sentient Beings has no beginning and no end. It started sometime… perhaps when I was sleeping. It will end sometime… in a future that doesn’t exist yet. So, like I said, it has no beginning and no...
by Dawn Patel | Nov 6, 2014 | Brilliant Stranger, children, creative process, dawn patel art, fairy tales, introvert, never-ending story, painted stones, paintings, sentient beings, sketches, stories, watercolor
The Sentient Beings SketchbookAt the side of my bed I have a little sketchbook I have titled “Sentient Beings.” The characters that come to me are from another world. Some might call it the imagination, and some might call it another dimension....
