Dreaming in Red and “The Loss of Truth” I listened to a podcast today by one of my mentors, Michael Meade. In The Loss of Truth, he refers to the Greek word for truth alethia, which translates as “not to forget”. Meade searches for truth and meaning in the old myths “where a person could find themselves caught …
Author: Debra
Ohana: Dreaming in Red
Women’s March 2017 March for Our Lives 2018 It is increasingly clear that our cultural values have been undermined, so that even among the masses, and especially among today’s youth, there are individuals who are seeking, not so much the destruction of the old, as something new on which to build. And because the destruction …
Root Stories
Brings LIfe to A Field It is not possible to complete yourself without sorrow. Sorrow is a vital ingredient that shapes the heart and enriches it. So endure sadness the best you can when it’s season comes. That rain can fall from your eyes brings life to a field. And on other days when you …
Story, Art & Transformation ~ fall 2017
Story, Art & Transformation November 2017 We cross thresholds all the time. sometimes it is the simplicity of walking through a door from one room to another. Sometimes it is moving between significant and symbolic changes in our lives, the end of something known into what comes next and is unknown. These can be times …
Pattern Language #2
Pattern Language 1988-2017 23rd Street, NYC #1 Peak Road, Stone Ridge, NY #4 23rd Street, NYC #2 23rd Street, NYC #3 23rd Street, NYC #4 °°° …sometimes looking back helps us to look forward, sometimes it only holds us to old stories, myths that no longer instruct, patterns that once provided the net that we …
Pattern Language
Pattern Language 1988 ~ 2017 Peak Road, Stone Ridge, New York #1 Peak Road, Stone Ridge, New York #2 Peak Road, Stone Ridge, New York #3 South Oxford Street, Brooklyn, New York #1 South Oxford Street, Brooklyn, New York #2 “Understory” by Mark Nepo I’ve been watching stars rely on the darkness they resist. …
flight
June 30, 2017 “flight”, 2017, 3′ x 6′, mixed media with japanese paper and ink on canvas moving slowly southward aerial view of ocean bodies tributaries of the nooksack, lummi, skagit and baker as the crow flies 75 miles ~ 35 minutes of slow motion flight my eyes mostly closed, headphones, muffling outside but all …
update on Indra’s Net 2017
Creating Communities ~ Weaving Indra’s Net in Whatcom County Project Neighborly This past January I received a grant from the Whatcom Community Foundation. Shortly after this past 2016 presidential election, the Foundation put out a call for entries in Whatcom county for project proposals in all disciplines, the grant called Project Neighborly was intended to …
2017 open studio evenings !
Story, Art & Transformation Open Studio Night 6pm – 10 pm or whatever you can sustain! this week ~ February 9th, 2017 “WE ARE THE MIRROR AS WELL AS THE FACE IN IT. WE ARE TASTING THE TASTE THIS MINUTE OF ETERNITY. WE ARE PAIN AND WHAT CURES PAIN, BOTH. WE ARE THE SWEET …
sending & receiving for olivia
january 3, 2017 sending & receiving ~ for olivia 16″x20″, paper and mixed media on canvas At the Threshold of Womanhood by John O’Donohue It is like awakening into a morning Where everything is touched with change. Now your body has a mind of its own As it curves and fills into womanhood. The …
