The open hand - I am either open to life or closed to life. I wish to stay open.  

Sugar - if I could eliminate this drug from my life…….

Sometimes I look at my feet in awe of how much they do for me. They’re really not that big yet they carry me over a lot of terrain. So it’s only fair to spend a little extra to get comfortable shoes…

Grapefruits are included in my diet daily. I love them - juicy, sweet and oh so good for the body.
 

The Fork, Knife and Spoon represent food - and how we can either help or

harm ourselves by what we put in our mouths. 
 

My sister told me that your body actually produces Dopamine when you put your arms in the air or even visualize your arms in the air. There are certain spots on my run when I put my arms in the air and get a little rush…. ahhhhhhh…. 

There is a field of sorghum outside my studio and it is crazy hypnotic - the vertical lines and the way it moves in the wind is something beyond special.  

The Push Pin. I see beauty in the banal. Sometimes I’m not sure why I am pulled toward certain subjects - the push pin - it’s bright color and sharp point compels me. 
 

The paper clip holds together that which is loose. My day has ‘structures’ which help hold me together. Meditation, sketching, running, being with my dog and loved ones, to name a few.
 

I listen frequently to a CD by Louise Hay, who says to make time to dance every day!

And when I am dancing all is well in my world - it’s a good vibration. 

The conch shell appears a lot in Sublimity 45 - someone once told me ‘you have to make your obsessions work for you’ and these shells sort of haunt me. They have a figurative quality - very feminine and sensual.

Every summer I’m drawn (no pun intended) to the daylily -

which lives for a day and then dies.

Sat Chit Ananda is the pure, undifferentiated state of non-duality. It is the most perfect expression of our primordial Self, which is energetically inseparable from the power of the Love creating the universe. To reside in this state is the experience of pure Bliss; the essence of Life Itself. This definition of Sat Chit Ananda sums up this painting.

Saturday night was grand celebration of the amazing landfill art project started over seven years ago by Ken Marquis -

The hubcaps transformed into works of art was in one word... AWESOME.  Here are some pictures ... but to get the full effect- go to Winchester VA to the Shenadoah Art Museum - it's up for six months!

                      Ken Marquis and  Dana Hands Evans Executive Director of the Shenadoah Art Musuem

                                    "Offering Bowl" by artist Judi Keats

                                          My Wolf Rules Bowl - upper right

                 Sculpture Jim Lennox, Me and Founder of Landfill art project Ken Marquis

This image has gone through a lot of transitions- it signifies moving towards the light out of the darkness.  

Local artists Nina Davidowitz, Jim Lennox and Leigh Pawling are in this video!

                    Mark and Tom acrylic on board 70" x 48"

Mark saw the first painting of the Life Series - the color, numbers and size resonated with him inspiring him to commission me to do a painting with dates pertinent to him and  his partner.  It was a joy to paint ......

  LIfe Series 1  acrylic on canvas  72"x60"

Here is Eloise -  the zen master who live with me - she does naturally what I aim to do.  She is always in the present moment. 

A reoccurring theme in my work has been OPEN and CLOSED.  When I am OPEN to life, I soar..... when I am CLOSED to life ... I don't... it's really as simple as that.  May I be open today and this week... and the same goes for you. 

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I have a gorgeous leather sketchbook I do something creative every day.  These sketches are like my 'warm ups' to get me in the vortex of creating.  It seems this practice is really working for me - -- what practices are working for you?