Prone To Wander..

New Blog!

2011-09-14T16:44:00.002-05:00

click picture!

Summer

2011-06-28T21:01:00.000-05:00

Ageless Beauty

2011-06-15T17:02:00.001-05:00

found

I Heard God Laughing

2011-06-15T09:39:00.005-05:00

The Album!

2011-06-15T09:16:00.002-05:00

Sweet Teeth

Lately

2011-06-10T12:30:00.002-05:00

Many new things on the way!

Interconnected

2011-06-10T09:26:00.000-05:00

New Site!

2011-05-16T12:42:00.003-05:00

Visit here!

Sweet Teeth

2011-04-05T19:57:00.003-05:00

Completed! Listen to some of Daniel and the Lions music here :)

Lovely Lady

2011-03-28T19:45:00.000-05:00

This lady is just too lovely. Miss you sis!!

Sneak Peek

2011-03-27T11:51:00.002-05:00

Sweet Teeth

The Word

2011-03-21T18:22:00.002-05:00

A little green..

2011-03-21T18:11:00.001-05:00

Starting some greens with LETS GO!

Garden Moon

2011-03-04T22:36:00.001-06:00

In My Arms

2011-02-22T22:59:00.003-06:00

Future

2011-02-16T12:06:00.000-06:00

(found)

General Douglas MacArthur: “Youth is not a period of time”

2011-02-10T13:37:00.000-06:00

"Youth is not a period of time. It is a state of mind, a result of the will, a quality of the imagination, a victory of courage over timidity, of the taste for adventure over the love of comfort. A man doesn’t grow old because he has lived a certain number of years. A man grows old when he deserts his ideal. the years may wrinkle his skin, but deserting his ideal wrinkles his soul. Preoccupations, fears, doubts, and dispair are the enemies which slowly bow us towards earth and turn us to dust before death.

You will remain young as long as you are open to what is beautiful, good, and great; receptive to the messages of other men and women, of nature and God. If one day you should become bitter, pessemistic and gnawed by dispair, may God has mercy on your old man’s soul.”

Creative Vision

2011-02-07T18:09:00.001-06:00

Project for class.

Sustinance

2011-02-05T20:31:00.002-06:00

Moon Rising

2011-01-14T00:07:00.000-06:00

Progressing slowly..

Mountain Heros: Share Your Stories

2011-01-12T13:01:00.003-06:00

Here! With Earth Justice!

Love Mischief

2011-01-07T00:21:00.002-06:00

It used to be

That when I would wake in the morning

I could with confidence say,

"What am 'I' going to do?"

That was before the seed

Cracked open.

Now I am certain:

There are two of us housed

In this body,

Doing the shopping together in the market and

Tickling each other

While fixing the evening food.

Now when I awake

All the internal instruments play the same music

"God, what love-mischief can 'We' do

For the world today?"

~Hafiz

Loyola Secrets; Healing and Hysterical Truths

2011-01-04T12:55:00.003-06:00

Oh yes.. and another project. Catharsis Art Club will be hosting "Loyola Secrets" this semester along with the DFPA. Our intention with the show is to create a platform on which the entire student body can creatively express themselves though a campus wide interactive art show. Our plan is to place scattered handmade mail boxes around campus from January 24th to February 18th to collect hand-made postcards. The next weekend we will set up the cards in specified public locations around campus. Looking forward to entries!!

Also if anyone has extra time they arn't using, can you send it my way..

Sweet Teeth Kickstart!! Daniel and the Lion

2011-01-04T12:28:00.005-06:00

Another new project!! I'll be working with some really lovely friends this spring on a collaborative art project for their new album "Sweet Teeth". You can learn more about the project on their Kickstart page and help us make the project a reality! You can also listen to their music here.

Splendid California

2011-01-02T17:04:00.002-06:00

This Fertile Land

2011-01-02T14:23:00.001-06:00

Grand Aspirations

2010-12-27T12:02:00.004-06:00

"If the world is going to be healed through human efforts, I am convinced it will be ordinary people, people whose love for this life is even greater than their fear."

Joanna r. Macy

New Project! More on this to come.

This Christmas

2010-12-26T15:58:00.002-06:00

"We Are the Weavers" An Eco Art Zine

2010-12-14T00:45:00.007-06:00

Mock-Zine project in the works for class.. "We Are the Weavers" is a resource for artists interested in exploring environmentally friendly art practices. (Art courtesy of the lovely Allyson Melberg)

Soul Lifting; Divine Action!

2010-12-07T08:47:00.002-06:00

"Soul-lifting is the sequence of events when unselfishness rises in the human heart; when the real brotherhood of men is accepted, when there is a surrender to the divine program! Charity and mercy soon flow from the unselfish man. He looks with forgiving compassion upon the weaknesses of others. He seeks to succor all who are in need. Such service begets love, the impelling principle of divine action.”

~John A Widstoe

Impossible Soul; We can do much more together.

2010-12-04T21:43:00.002-06:00

Listening to; Impossible Soul "We can do much more together!"

Cultivating

2010-11-23T02:08:00.003-06:00

change!

Beyond earthly imagination... (a note from a mysterious friend)

2010-11-22T02:32:00.009-06:00

"One day I ran away from the grim face of society and the dizzying clamor of the city.. until reached a lonely spot where the flowing branches of the trees prevented the sun from touching the earth.

I stood there and it was entertaining to my soul- my thirsty soul who had seen naught but the mirage of life instead of its sweetness.

I was engrossed deeply in thought, and my spirits were sailing the firmament when an hour.. wearing a sprig of grapevine that covered part of her naked body, and a wreath of poppies about her golden hair, appeared...

She replied.. my life is sustained by the world of beauty which you will see where ever you rest your eyes, and this beauty is nature itself; it is the beginning of the shepards joy... a villagers happiness... the pleasure of the awe filled tribes...

Then I said 'Beauty is a terrible power!' And she retorted, 'Human beings fear all things, even yourselves. You fear heaven, the source of spiritual peace; you fear nature, the haven of rest and tranquility; you fear the God of goodness and accuse him of anger, when he is full of love and mercy...'

I asked, 'Speak to me of this beauty...' and she answered 'Beauty is that which attracts the soul, and that which loves to give and not to receive... It is the magnificence combined of sorrow and joy; it is the unseen which you see, and the vague which you understand, and the mute which you hear- it is the Holy of Holies that begins in yourself and ends vastly beyond your earthly imagination...'

I returned to the city, whose turbulence no longer vexed me...

Beauty is eternity gazing at itself in a mirror.

Gibran

(Whichever one of you lovely folk left this for me, I am vastly grateful. I found it deeply moving and I hope that you don't mind that I have taken the liberty to share it.)

Per Favore

2010-11-15T23:08:00.001-06:00

Mad, I will join you in a heart beat.

(found images)

Plays with Light.

2010-11-14T22:43:00.002-06:00

Friendly shadows, and rainy drives with my sister in autumn.

A blanket to protect you.

2010-11-14T22:26:00.005-06:00

This is a book I created about making a blanket for someone you love. It follows the intimate process of planting, harvesting, dying, and weaving.

"Your love should never be offered

To the mouth of a stranger.

Only to those

Who have the valor and the daring

To cut pieces of their soul off with a knife

And weave them into a blanket to protect you."

~Hafiz

A word about Oregon..

2010-11-09T01:22:00.003-06:00

These days..

2010-11-09T00:37:00.002-06:00

All Souls Day (thoughts on impermanence)

2010-11-02T18:57:00.004-05:00

"Sun rise, sun set.. and we all go round and round in the circle game."

Garden Moon (in progress)

2010-11-01T22:04:00.001-05:00

Eternal Living

2010-10-28T18:02:00.002-05:00

"I drove to Chicago, in a van with my friends." Two weeks ago: dear friends, autumn landscapes, and Sufjans new album! heavenly.

Chief Seattle

2010-10-26T09:49:00.001-05:00

Intimate assembly..

2010-10-17T20:57:00.004-05:00

Thoughts on weaving and natural dyes..

Native Spirit

2010-10-17T08:38:00.008-05:00

"Spooky" for Illustration Friday

Lately..

2010-10-15T22:54:00.004-05:00

BIG COAL

2010-10-03T12:01:00.005-05:00

BIG PROBLEMS

Rainbow Road

2010-09-24T20:13:00.005-05:00

Album cover for my dear friend Alvin Band. Album will be released this coming January :)

Fathomless..

2010-09-21T00:34:00.009-05:00

"Beyond the farthest vision, crowding outer space, the universes come and go, an innumerable host.. "

(second picture found)

Night Weavers

2010-09-11T10:09:00.004-05:00

Planning

2010-09-06T20:39:00.001-05:00

Family Time

2010-09-06T18:21:00.003-05:00

Laughing at Desire

2010-08-31T20:00:00.002-05:00

Mountain Mystic

2010-08-25T18:45:00.002-05:00

More Adventurous

2010-08-19T23:19:00.002-05:00

Solo bike trip up into Wisconsin. Wish me luck!!

(found image)

In my bedroom..

2010-08-17T17:48:00.001-05:00

Rising above limitations.

2010-08-14T20:27:00.002-05:00

Visions of the Arctic

2010-08-14T09:10:00.004-05:00

Beautiful video about Arctic preservation fromEarthJustice.

A landscape in your dreams.

2010-08-02T18:25:00.002-05:00

Can't get enough

2010-07-31T21:14:00.004-05:00

Double Take

2010-07-28T10:26:00.003-05:00

Project for a friend:) Find this on etsy.

Web Design Play

2010-07-28T10:25:00.001-05:00

Imagination does not exist..

2010-07-26T10:49:00.002-05:00

"What you conceive as imagination

Does not exist for me.

What ever you can do in a dream

Or on your mind-canvas

My hands can pull alive from my coat pocket."

~Hafiz

Portrait of a Lady

2010-07-25T22:54:00.003-05:00

(Patagonia complete)

Patagonia

2010-07-23T00:25:00.001-05:00

seamstress

2010-07-21T00:10:00.005-05:00

The world offers itself to your imagination.

2010-07-19T01:24:00.002-05:00

Slowly

2010-07-10T00:56:00.000-05:00

Pretty pretty

2010-07-05T22:49:00.004-05:00

(found images)

Faces

2010-07-05T10:54:00.001-05:00

Mixing things

2010-07-05T08:37:00.002-05:00

Quiet Nights

2010-07-01T21:52:00.002-05:00

Minarets Wilderness

2010-06-28T08:58:00.001-05:00

Lake Clark

2010-06-20T22:49:00.001-05:00

Centering

2010-06-13T10:52:00.002-05:00

Today, again..

2010-06-12T19:44:00.003-05:00

Today

2010-06-12T18:34:00.003-05:00

The mountains got tired of sitting amongst a sleeping audience..

Means of production.

2010-06-11T10:19:00.001-05:00

Cadence

2010-06-08T20:46:00.002-05:00

Spirit

2010-05-25T19:59:00.001-05:00

star gazing..

Mosaic of Diversity; Traveling the Sunset Coast

2010-05-24T21:38:00.004-05:00

The first few days of summer brought: Rugged Coast
Primeval forests..

Snowcapped Olympics..
Spring flowers..

Mosaics of Diversity

Family, family, family..

Peace of mind.

Change rooms in your mind for a day.

2010-05-10T00:54:00.004-05:00

Leave the familiar for a while.

Let your senses and bodies stretch out

Like a welcomed season

Onto the meadows and shores and hills.

Open up to the Roof.

Make a new water-mark on your excitement

And love.

Like a blooming night flower,

Bestow your vital fragrance of happiness

And giving

Upon our intimate assembly.

Change rooms in your mind for a day.

All the hemispheres in existence

Lie beside an equator

In your heart.

Greet Yourself

In your thousand other forms

As you mount the hidden tide and travel

Back home.

All the hemispheres in heaven

Are sitting around a fire

Chatting

While stitching themselves together

Into the Great Circle inside of

You.

~ Hafiz

Family time.

"You were brave in that holy war."

2010-05-02T19:54:00.002-05:00

Sublime Vision

2010-05-01T16:59:00.006-05:00

Plant

So that your own heart

Will Grow.

Sing

Because this is a food

Our starving world

Needs.

~Hafiz

From Dennis

2010-04-26T08:57:00.002-05:00

Blackburn

2010-04-24T17:47:00.005-05:00

Barn/ home/ studio by BLACKBURN. Seems heavenly.

Two Moons

2010-04-24T17:46:00.005-05:00

I once had the immense pleasure of getting to watch the moon rise twice in one night. (Summer 2008 Zion National Park with my sisters)

Father: 1976 Olympic National Park

2010-04-22T00:16:00.003-05:00

Fills Me With Hope

2010-04-21T19:35:00.006-05:00

Things to look forward to: Olympic National Park with my family.

"In thy wind-

In they light-

How insignificant is everything else,

How small are we."

The Dandelion Has My Smile

2010-04-18T10:21:00.002-05:00

Peace is Every Step

Spring and some things..

2010-04-18T10:18:00.003-05:00

Deconstructing Monoculture

2010-04-15T18:25:00.000-05:00

Lanterns

2010-04-15T16:03:00.003-05:00

Lanterns

Hang from the night sky

So that your eyes might draw

One more image of love upon your silk canvas

Before Sleep.

Words from Him reach you

And tilled a golden field inside.

When all your desires are distilled

You will cast just two votes:

To love more,

And to be happy.

Take these words from the mouth of Hafiz

And mix them into your seed pouch.

And then the Moon says,

"Its time to plant."

Why not dance,

Dance and sing?

~Hafiz

Great things...

2010-04-12T11:52:00.004-05:00

The beehive collective..
..and this great patch by Jason Hallows.

Fine Earth Products (Planning)

2010-04-10T18:27:00.001-05:00

A little breathing..

2010-04-10T16:57:00.000-05:00

Referendum

2010-04-09T10:51:00.003-05:00

(found)

The Light of Mutual Love

2010-03-30T02:08:00.005-05:00

From the East House of Light

May wisdom dawn in us

So we may see all things in clarity

From the North House of Night

May wisdom ripen in us

So we may know all form within

From the West House of Transformation

May wisdom be transformed into right action

So we may do what must be done

From the South House of the Eternal Sun

May right action reap the harvest

So we may enjoy the fruits of planetary being

From Above House of Haven

Where star people and ancestors gather

May their blessings come to us now

From Below House of Earth

May the heartbeat of her crystal core

Bless us with harmonies to end all war

From the Center Galactic Source

Which is everywhere at once

May everything be known as the light of mutual love

Jose Arguelles

Meditation

2010-03-26T00:11:00.002-05:00

Lifts Beyond Conception

2010-03-25T00:28:00.000-05:00

restless

2010-03-22T23:57:00.004-05:00

(found)