WORD PAINTINGS #127 – WINTER WORK
WORD PAINTINGS #127 (How I Came to New Mexico and Learned about Art and Life) – WINTER WORK 27 November 2022 (Llano Quemado, New Mexico) – A Perfect New Beginning!!! Wakened to huge fluffy snowflakes at 7Am. a veritable whiteout! Now 10:30AM – the grey clouds are clearing and all the pretty white stuff is […]
WORD PAINTINGS #126 – BLANK IS A NEW BEGINNING
20 October 2022 (Llano Quemado, New Mexico)- The father of my three children died yesterday. These past few weeks have been very strange. His dying was very long and protracted. Painful. Daily updates from one of our twin daughters. We had been divorced for over 52 years. Memories of our nine years together and how […]
WORD PAINTINGS #125 – LOST AND FOUND
6 August 2022 (Llano Quemado, New Mexico) – So often life is a balancing act! It falls to pieces but miracle after miracle the missing pieces show up and we get to sort them out one by one – leaving behind those that no longer fit. This is such an interesting time to be alive!! […]
WORD PAINTINGS #124 – RAIN, RAIN, RAIN, RAIN – BLESSED RAIN!!!
WORD PAINTINGS #124 (How I Came to New Mexico and Learned About Life and Art) -RAIN, RAIN, RAIN, RAIN – BLESSED RAIN!!! 3 July 2022 (Llano Quemado, New Mexico) – Sunday morning silence – not even the birds are singing! Truth is we are all exhausted from the heavy drama of this time since the […]
WORD PAINTINGS # 123 – UP IN SMOKE!
WORD PAINTINGS #123 (How I Came to New Mexico and Learned about Art and Life) – UP IN SMOKE! 11 June 2022 (Llano Quemado, New Mexico) – The Hermit’s Peak/Calf Canyon fire has consumed over 320,000 acres and is 67% contained. Yesterday a new fire broke out north of El Rito burning 500 […]
WORD PAINTINGS #122 – BACK TO THE BEGINNING AGAIN!
WORD PAINTINGS #122 (How I Came to New Mexico and Learned About Art and Life) A MAN IS RICH AS HIS WOODPILE (From the High Road, Northern New Mexico) ***************************** WORD PAINTINGS #122 (How I Came to New Mexico and Learned About Art and Life) 5 June 2022 (Llano Quemado, New Mexico) […]
WORD PAINTINGS #120 – A CRUEL SEASON
WORD PAINTINGS #120 (How I Came to New Mexico and Learned About Life and Art) – A CRUEL SEASON 4 May 2022 (Llano Quemado, New Mexico) – View from my kitchen window: What began as a few plumes of white over towards Las Vegas on or about the 20th of April became 75,000 acres forest […]
WORD PAINTINGS #119 – GOING TO SANCTUARY
30 April 2022 (Llano Quemado, New Mexico) – High winds, forest fires – smoky haze settling on Taos Valley. Heard yesterday that he winds will pick up again today. I can hear some whistles at the windows. Rain clouds formed over the area across from my kitchen window. Plumes of smoke from the Las […]
WORD PAINTINGS #118 – EARTH, WIND AND FIRE!!
25 April 2022 (Llano Quemado, New Mexico) – All I can say is “WOW”!!! Yesterday definitely felt like the end of the world. Sixty mile an hour winds up here on the Llano (94 mile an hour at the Ski Valley). Blowing from south toward Taos Mountain the sand and dust was thick […]
WORD PAINTINGS #117 – A CANDLE FOR GRAMPA JIM
GOOD FRIDAY – 15 April 2022. Just lit a candle for my Grampa Jim. The story goes that Valentin Danielewski came over on the boat from either Prussia or Poland when he was eight years old. As a young adult he Americanized his name to Jim Daniels. In time he married my grandmother Ella, adopted […]
