Some Kind of Morning
Music for modern dance used by choreographers Demetrius Klein and Gina Buntz in 2016
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Art Party – modern dance music
This past weekend we had a fabulous ART PARTY chez nous! It featured my recently composed music for a modern dance company in South Florida. But, knowing that would be a bit boring… Continue reading
The Insignificant Becomes Significant
A couple of years ago, I spent a summer Saturday, along with some friends in the Forêt de Dourdan about 45 minutes south-west of Paris. The objective was to create some Land Art… Continue reading
10 Painful Rejection Letters To NOW Famous People
If you are an artist of any kind, you’ve suffered rejection. Rejected manuscripts. Rejected proposals. Rejected ideas. Rejected projects. In the midst of it, we feel alone…and of course, REJECTED. It can be… Continue reading
Create 2 Exists
Street Art seen near the Place de la République in Paris
Paint!
If you hear a voice within you say “you cannot paint,” then by all means paint and that voice will be silenced. – Vincent Van Gogh
Interview with Poet, Christian Wiman
Insightful interview that touches on a poets take on faith, inspiration, cancer, life, etc.
Morning Pages Basics
At the heart of The Artist’s Way self-help guide for (re)discovering your creativity, is what author, Julia Cameron calls the Morning Pages. …Put simply the morning pages are three pages of longhand writing,… Continue reading
Arcade Fire Unites my Life
I’ve just watched the live stream of the new Arcade Fire album – Reflektor. In a weird way, it unites the loose ends of my life: Arcade Fire hails from Montreal, where I… Continue reading
The bells, Esmeralda, the bells!
Quasimodo will finally have new bells to ring. The Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris is getting a fresh new set of bells for its 850 birthday (read about them in detail here). They… Continue reading
A Complete Disaster…
…is what I would call the exhibit we went to on Sunday….that’s because the name of it was: Disaster: The End of Days…our first visit to the amazing new Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac in… Continue reading
The Land Art of Andy Goldsworthy
I really, really enjoy the “land art” of Andy Goldsworthy. He has a way of looking at nature differently and rearranging it in subtle but fascinating ways. It’s natural. It’s temporal. It’s simple.… Continue reading
A Cache-Cache* Moment
A very good friend just texted me from Barcelona while visiting Gaudi church: Sagrada Familia. She says, “Holà, …La Sagrada Familia is so meaningful, so Jesus centered that I can not help the… Continue reading
Edward Hopper @ Paris
Finally made it to the Hopper Expo @ le Grand Palais…Paris after hearing about it from friends only stood in line for an hour and a half with Dutch friend Willemijn cold and… Continue reading
Art is Frightening
Art is frightening. Art isn’t pretty. Art isn’t painting. Art isn’t something you hang on the wall. Art is what we do when we’re truly alive. If you’ve already decided that you’re not… Continue reading
The Art of Lament
There are times in life when you need to allow yourself to be sad….when it is very appropriate….when your soul cries out to mourn. In the wake of such a massacre of innocence… Continue reading
Collaborative Vision
This week I had another cool, first-time-ever art experience….I went with my friend Zoé Motte to a large office building situated between l’Arc de Triomphe and La Défense. She led an art workshop… Continue reading
art jam session
At this moment….I’m witnessing the birth of art….the ephemeral creative process…the sacred rite that humans do in imitating their Creator. I’m in an art studio…. an atelier. It’s messy and chaotic. A pianist… Continue reading
Smoke and Mirrors
Last night at the Nuit Blanche I saw an intriguing work of art on display within the Hôtel de Ville. It was amazingly simple and profoundly spiritual. I actually missed it the first… Continue reading
See God in Everyone
I dropped in one of my favorite galleries this week on a whim…the Galerie Perrotin, where I was blown away by the “Fire of Joy” expo by Iranian artist, Farhad Moshiri. In the… Continue reading
and the seed of encouragement raises its beautiful head
Today on facebook, a fb friend, Gary Bowen, announced his first solo photography show for next April 2013 in a small café on the west side Montréal. In the comment section he specifically… Continue reading
a parable
And then the wise teacher said When thou taggest tag not as some hath tagged defacing the dignified mangling the majestic selfishly scrawling cowardly concealing ambiguous aberrations of one’s own name Instead When… Continue reading