WORD PAINTINGS #144 – GUATEMALA 1991 PART V – TRUTH AND CONSEQUENCES
Bearers of Light – Easter 1991 -Chichicastenango, Guatemala (How I Came to New Mexico and learned about Art and Life) – Had been angry with Anthony Bourdain ever since I heard the announcement of his suicide. What a waste! He had it all. Truth is he had seen it all and finally the world […]
WORD PAINTINGS #143 – GUATEMALA 1991 PART IV – INCIDENTS AT COPAN
5 May 2024 (Llano Quemado, New Mexico) It is a mystery to me why this past Easter Season brought back so many vivid memories of my trip to Guatemala… the magnificent processions, the colorful village life, the ever present sense of danger. This past month I have read most of The Blindfold’s Eye by Sister […]
WORD PAINTINGS # 142 – GUATEMALA PART III – CIVIL WAR
The pace of this trip was exhausting. Prior to heading for the Friday Market in Solola and Lake Atitlan we had spent a night at Posada de Belen. Damp dark sleeping room – the courtyard where Sister Ortiz had been kidnapped – my first hint that this was far more than a photo trip for […]
WORD PAINTINGS #141 – GUATEMALA 1991 PART II – EASTER SUNDAY IN CHICHICASTENANGO
“A dream is a wish your heart makes when you’re fast asleep”. Remembering that day in 1956 when teachers Ms. Schaefer and Ms. Flynn regaled my Spanish class with colorful stories of their trip to Guatemala. Their excitement about spending Easter Sunday in an exotic-sounding place called Chichicastenango was joyful!!! Chills, goosebumps, their excitement was […]
WORD PAINTINGS #140 – GUATEMALA 1991 – SEMANA SANTA PART I
February 1991 – Listening to Joseph the Starwatcher while painting my Taos studio, I heard an ad from the Center for Anthropological Studies announcing a group trip through Guatemala. Having just sold a large canvas at my Santa Fe gallery, I thought “Aha, this is my chance to get some good photographs for a new […]
WORD PAINTINGS #139 – A MAGPIE FUNERAL ON SANTISTEVAN LANE
WORD PAINTINGS #139 (How I Came to New Mexico and Learned about Art and Life) A MAGPIE FUNERAL ON SANTISTEVAN LANE 29 October 2023 (Llano Quemado, New Mexico) – 3AM Friday – Moonshadows on the wall in my bedroom – the Hunter’s Moon. Lifted the shade and the brilliant orb, low on the horizon […]
WORD PAINTINGS #138 – METAMORPHOSIS
WORD PAINTINGS #138 (How I Came to New Mexico and Learned about Art and Life)- METAMORPHOSIS ….. “Nietzsche was the one who did the job for me. At a certain moment in his life,the idea came to him of what he called ‘the love of your fate.’ Whatever your fate is, whatever the hell […]
WORD PAINTINGS #137 – SEPTEMBER SONG
WORD PAINTINGS #137 (How I Came to New Mexico and Learned About Art and Life) – SEPTEMBER SONG SEPTEMBER SONG (Vadito, New Mexico) – http://fineartamerica.com/profiles/1-donna-clair.html?page=1 1 September 1939 – The infamous day in history when Hitler invaded Gdansk, Poland. Joined Ancestry last year and found that many of my relatives were born and lived […]
WORD PAINTINGS #136 – ART GODS AND LIFE ARROWS
HOLY FAMILY WITH FOUR SAINTS AND A FEMALE DONOR – Antonio Rimpata 1509-1531 WORD PAINTINGS # 136 (How I Came to New Mexico and learned about Life and Art) 28 August 2023 – Art Gods and Life Arrows ! Reunion! How amazing that this image came back into my life after I saw the […]
WORD PAINTINGS #135 – STORMY WEATHER
WORD PAINTINGS #135 (How I came to New Mexico and Learned about Life and Art) 19 August 2023 (Llano Quemado, New Mexico) – Remnants of a HURRICANE are headed our way! The outer bands of rain are predicted for sometime tomorrow. The last major storm headed through Mexico and the California Coast 84 years […]
