Being an artist is something you don’t decide to become, but rather discover you are one. Creativity only comes alive when it lives in us and we live it out in life. What is an artist? Someone who tries to save the world and themselves with no superpowers other than their stories.
– Kwabena Feli
What does Living Out of Time mean for us? Our time in the high desert and mountains of Wyoming gave us time to reflect on what draws us together as a human community rather than what divides us. Creativity birthed from deep within our relationship with Earth can give new expression to the light that is deep in all things and draw us back into true relationship with the heart of life.
Read MoreNot that art replaces the need for food, shelter, or medical care, but that creativity and its expression in the world is a foundational pillar. Creativity is embedded in all of us and when we share that together, we form community.
Read MoreArt enables us to move past our perceptions of soundless beauty to find a language that might allow you to move and to shake out in the real world. Even if it makes us feel like a traveler in a strange and distant world.
Read MoreThere was lots of sun, and in April, no flies. I was warm in my winter coat, and I had a steaming cup of good coffee in my hands on the deck overlooking the Apostle Islands. There was a spellbinding full Pink Moon that Nokomis would have loved as much as I did.
Read MoreRecently, we were on a pilgrimage to visit friends in Santa Rosa, California. While exploring the beauty of the coast we were reminded of the words from John Muir.
Read MoreWe find ourselves listening to the stars in the night sky and the sun and the moon, to the rivers and the valleys, to the forests and creeks and lakes that surround us, to the meadows and the wildflowers, to the rich conversations, to the newly born fawns, songbirds, and hummingbirds and to their exotic music especially while sitting on our porch in the St. Croix River Valley.
Read MoreAt the heart of opposition or the tension being held, there is something else or new birthing. The notion of balance is really powerful, because balance is a providential thing that allows something new to emerge from the depths of the tension of crisis and contradiction.
Read MoreIf we can bring ourselves into the present from the past and take notice, our collective voices can bear witness to the Earth’s changing image and respond more truthfully to her evolving song of life.
Read MoreOur series of paintings titled, Seeds of Time, explore how we fit into the Earth’s history. We wonder if our conception of time affects the way we think and behave as we process the mysterious flexibility of time.
Read MoreWe are unable to summarize this crazy year into a paragraph you can stand to read. Instead we’d like to send a big ol’ thank you note.
Read MoreWe have found that our art can amplify the sacred and challenge the status quo. The arts help us to hear above the cacophony amid our noisy and chaotic world.
Read MoreNovember is the time of the year in the northern hemisphere when we begin to think about the coming of winter, of the dark.
Read MoreWe recognize that creativity also can be used in radically dangerous ways, but when we imagine healing between us, and between nations, we see art as a visual language that helps transform divergence into dialogue.
Read MoreI now stand at a threshold I would not have chosen, but it is indeed a boundary that I will need to cross and will move into uncharted territory. The boundary I’m crossing is the river of cancer, a rare cancer called neuroendocrine tumors.
Read MoreWe are held together by love. It would be good for our spirit to be especially vigilant when it comes to showing love and respect for one another.
Read MoreThe traditional Japanese calendar is split into 72 different seasons a year.
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