PBCJamaica "Spotlight" TV Interview Originally aired January 2014 for the solo photo-Based exhibition Cocooning Catharis at HiQo Gallery, Kingston, Jamaica (Dec 19 - Jan 13th, 2014)
This was thankfully a casual but in depth discussion on the inspiration behind the work, and some of the methods used to make the pieces. It was a great hang with the crew too. Select works available at HiQo Gallery
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A few weeks ago I was one of 4 artists* accepted by jury into the Annual Mutual Gallery
SuperPlus Under 40 Artist of the Year competition in Kingston, Jamaica.
I'm working in an entirely new image making process for a project titled:
ReKON: differenzierte Möglichkeit(trans. Reconstruction: Differentiated Possibility).
It is most arduous, frightening, and fullfilling process on a daily
basis - and I'm quite certain the finish will be an unexpected aesthetic
to us all. Such intensity requires I be quiet and staunchly
disciplined to get through it...hence "Bat Cave".
here's a sneaky peek from the inside:
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Three images I shot earlier this year in downtown Kingston (Trench Town, Tivoli, and the Waterfront) were accepted for the annual JCDC/National Gallery of Jamaica competition. I received the bronze prize for Waterfront Divers on Kingston's Edge this past Sunday. Yayyyyyy! This work will be up through August at the National Gallery of Jamaica - if you're on the island check us all out.
"We are happy to say the jurors, after many hours of carefully considering each entry, felt that your submission was particularly strong, and that you have been chosen as the second-place winner of this year’s competition. Congratulations on behalf of the entire CCNY board and staff!"
OMG!!!
The winning spots are 1st, 2nd, and tie for 3rd place plus 12 honorable mentions. Congrats to all the artists, who I'm sure are as excited as I am.
I submitted work to the Vanderbilt Republic (whom I showed with last year at 25CPW Gallery) and made it through the curatorial and voting phases - yayyy - so I will show with them again this month in AFTH 2012 (Art From The Heart)show at their new Gowanus Loft Location in Brooklyn, New York.
These folks are the most playful and sweetest group of seriously solid quality artists around - because the founder of VR, George del Barrio sets the energy that way. Light light light!
5) Last but so not least - I just got back from Costa Rica. I went down to breathe sweet life into a new multidisciplinary project collaboration with local friend actor/artist Olger Ignacio Gonzalez and NYC friend/dancer/teacher/choreographer Roger C. Jeffrey. It's a baby of a project now, but this was such a beautiful and INTENSE creative trip that it will have its own post later in the year after further development. But for now - think dance/film/photography/social-art project. Yummy-liciousness.
Roger snappin' lights of inspiration - hahaha :)
Lft to Rt: Roger, Margarette, me, Olger. As you see we got to hang with my mama too!
Roger and Olger: Plaza de la Democracia
More photos + show dates and gallery locations coming up in another post soon.
This year keeps slapping me and hugging me at the same time people! Happy Summer to you all - hope to see you at a couple shows - and live-life-live-life-live-life and lift someone in a hug too while you're at it!
*Other 3 artist in Mutual Gallery show in November:
Olivia McGilchrist, Leasho Johnson, and Marvin Bartley
This is a very sober and unfortunate reason for an appeal for help. But hope is strong.
An old friend of mine Neesha Cameron (from my Sandals days in Jamaica) was diagnosed with stage 3 breast cancer last fall. Unfortunately she has taken a turn for the worst in the last days and her family, friends, acquaintances and beyond are pulling together resources in every way possible to raise funds for her treatment.
I know a lot of emails like this float around - often about people we don't know but I am personally asking you to assist any way you can for someone I do know.
She is a warm and beautiful person with a young daughter who needs her to beat this thing. And seriously - no amount is too small and you can donate anonymously. Anything you can give will help - it adds up!
She has been flown Mexico to receive specialized treatment from a highly reputed
practitioner of holistic care for cancer treatment, Dr. Castilloat his clinic in Tijuana*
Contact Info for more info on how to help:
The Cameron family - and primarily Neesha's sisters Orianna and Nekoda can be reached at the email addresses below: Oriana Cameron: orianajam@yahoo.com
Nekoda Cameron: empressnekoda@yahoo.com
Friends are also working on fundraising events in Jamaica and New York for Neesha.
For fundraiser details • to get involved • offer sponsorship • goods for auction • direct donations • etc :)
Raxanne Chin
(who is physically with Neesha in Jamaica now assisting in her care) [of Femheka Design/SaveOurJamaicaFoundation]: raxannchin@gmail.com
We are also brainstorming a fundraising fashion event to raise funds for 2nd and 3rd treatment sessions for Neesha later in the summer.
News to follow...
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I have also attached a PDF doc with more extensive information about the clinic in
Mexico, the costs of treatment and accommodation with applicable links to treatment info, testimonials from past patients, and also more contact info for theCameron Family.**
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There are a few ways online to donate:
1) You can directly donate (and anonymously if preferred) via https://fundrazr.com/campaigns/eKA86?psid=7742d7d00058434193a71ffa2eda8b7c
2) You can send a donation via Paypal to her sisters using this merchant account email address: empressnekoda@yahoo.com
If you cannot donate at this time, you can emit positive wishes for this goal to be met by sharing this with others.
PLEASE send this out to anyone you know who can assist in any way. Blog it, Facebook it, Tweet it, Digg it - however you share information widely.
We can't take for granted that no one will respond. If everyone gets one person to donate - that's HUGE.
She is in severe pain. This is URGENT. It can't be said any other way...
Deep thanks to you and endless gratitude for however you can help. Love • Light • Gratitude • Life Berette
*About Dr. Castillo - He was awarded the 2006 GOEH ( Global Organization for Excellence in Health). Dr Castillo combines the best of both worlds. He provides the patient with the benefits attained form both areas of western medicine and holistic treatment. The objective of the therapies that Dr. Castillo administers is to prolong and improve quality of life as much as possible by putting into remission, or stabilizing the patient's condition.I.M.A.Q.
Oh how long life is and what a gift it is to have witnesses...life long witnesses, who may not be close to you by any active means, but have seen you either at pivotal shifts on the journey or a few steps in the sub-lifetime of those shifts. These most important beings help to keep WHOLE the picture of your life, the image of yourself, your journey, your growth. They join the dots. They know you in ways your closest friends over shorter and especially recent periods cannot as they are not mired as you are, by the a litany of current distracting details.
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It was a beautiful Ash Wednesday beach day specifically for the purpose of rejuvenation and support of our dear friend Sean who had recently lost his baby brother Joseph. After our day out, we settled by the poolside of Jason's mother's home in Kingston. There we spoke in deep wonder and acceptance of the journey of loss and rebirth that we all have and must endure. At the close of this, Jason's mum was rushing about, late for her game of tennis, and her sparring partner who came to fetch her was already parked outside:
Friend JH: Berette, do you know who that is in the car outside?
Me: No, who is it?
JH: It's Sister Mary Catherine
Me: What?! No way. From Immaculate??? Lemme see!
I ran outside around to the driver's side of the car where a middle aged woman was seated. Same childlike face that I remember from so many years ago. Except in the place of the Franciscan nun's habit was a tennis headband, bob-length hair flowing free:
Me: Sister Mary Catherine!! Is that really you?!
SMC: Ah...yes...(?)
Me: It's Berette...
Me/SMC: Berette Macaulay (?!)
Me: Yes Yes! Oh my gosh I can't believe it - how long has it been?!
SMC: I know, oh my goodness! I can't believe it. How are you? Where have you been?!
Me: I'm fine! I've been living in the States the past few years. I'm an artist - well currently a photographer...
SMC: How wonderful!! You...you look...well...(!)
Me: Yes, I am.
SMC: I see your mother on television sometimes, and whenever I do, I wonder "what ever became of Berette". And I see you are fine...(as she gazes at me)
Me: Yes, yes I am (smiles, gasps, giggles)
SMC: I'm so glad, because you were such a troubled child. (eyebrows earnestly furrowed, coupled with a smile of disbelieving.)
Me: (laughs in agreement) yes, I was, but alas I've grown to be quite conservative in my old age (laughs more)
SMC: I can see, yes, I'm glad to see you are alright, and healthy, and well. I didn't know you knew these guys! (referring to our mutual friends)
Me: Yes, a long time too, in fact I met Jason when I was a young child in Sierra Leone, before my 'troubled' teen years! Yeah - the world is small isn't it?!
His mother comes out to get into the car:
SMC: Berette very good to see you. Take care of yourself.
Me: So very good to see you too Sister Mary Catherine (I say this
wondering if I should call her this - as she left the nunnery years prior). Oh wait! Please, before you go, please can we take a picture together, I must have this for posterity.
SMC: Of course!
Darling Sean, whose shock and loss was just a week old - was standing by looking on. We had all been in the deep conversational search; reckoning with the mystery of life...the whole reason for this day of togetherness in the sun. He immediately grasped the seemingly random continuity of this moment and runs around happily to oblige:
by Sean John
As they drove off - we (Sean, Nicky, Jason, and me) all laughed and reeled from this mysterious journey called 'Life', and the never-ending opportunity to complete the circles that help us make sense of it all.
Lessons learned and reinforced:
This life is long, and this life is funny, even while it hurts. Stay awake. Keep joining the dots. Keep searching and creating connections. Keep loving actively. Go on.
We all piled into our car, and drove off all singing along with this song:
Lovely Day by Bill Withers
(Dedicated to Joseph Buchanan, Feb 3rd, 1984 - Feb 14th, 2012, Fly in Peace beautiful one)
Got a few posts building up in me and while I'm getting all caught up in drafting them... the weeks are going by. So forgive the slight incongruity here - but I need to quickly put up a couple of thoughts and 'shares'.
As some of you know for the past few years - and stemming out of my public school teaching experience with ALATetc and Art for Progress - I've been working in a volunteer capacity to create educational art workshops/community projects with a couple of organizations; namely CITYarts, Studio 174, and INSCAPE Foundation. It's all been a bit slow, but the relationships built have been steady and consistently inspiring. My 'fave orgs' you see listed always in the sidebar is a record of my alliances thus far, and new to the list is Save Our Jamaica - founded by a most passionate soul and loyal Jamrocker - Raxann Chin.
foto by SeBiArt
Raxann and I have partnered in deep conversation and intention to merge our efforts where ever needed to compliment/assist groups we are individually affiliated with. The promise and potential of this is invigorating and inspiring to say the least. With SOJ, Raxann is passionately trying to
create a stable financial platform of support for established and new
community building organizations on the island of Jamaica.
Please spread the word - and volunteer what you can in this movement, whether it be contact resources, donations - financial or goods, consultation services, field work in workshops, PR, or any other talent or tangible gesture you can offer!
There is great potential here for true
collaboration with visual and performing artists, writers, educators, entrepreneurs, tech specialists, etc,
and a host of community advocates in all fields to build up a nation of unspeakable talent, potential, and spirit.
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The next item - just to get this up - is: with the tsunami of protests racing around the globe, it was a matter of time before it hit the US shores. The Occupy Wall Street protest (sparked originally by Adbusters back in July [great magazine btw!]) is strong, expanding exponentially, and inspiring. It makes me think of a rant I put up last year (the e-Con Highway) during the midterm elections about the economic disparities in the world, and the vulgar division of wealth and poverty that glows blindingly on a daily basis - and created a good chunk of the messes we're all swimming in now. Naturally it makes me think of my countries Jamaica, and Sierra Leone - both of which (but SL even more so), are near breathlessly struggling to stay at the surface of this tank, let alone above it! So I had to share a post from a fellow blogger, which was written specifically from a Jamaican point of view about the London riots.
It would simply be a shame to let too much time pass without sharing this news guys. Last week was full of fortune and surprises that all occurred rather closely together.
Last Sunday I found out that my work (shown below) was awarded at the JCDC/National Gallery of Jamaica Competition and exhibition with a Bronze medal for Visual Arts and the sectional trophy and cash award for Adult Photography. Wow. That's the 2nd year that's happened. And here I was feeling all itchy about having not produced enough new work in the last months, fretting that my incubation period would adversely affect the reception of my work. The Universe really reinforced my dreams and vigor to keep going.
Coronation Market Lady 2011 JCDC/Nat'l Gallery JA Award Winner
Then 2 days later, (and actually a few minutes after I had shared the former news on Facebook) I got a random, really random email from the CEO of MyArtSpace, Catherine McCormick-Skiba (a site that I have a membership page on but, embarrassingly, I rarely use due to overwhelm) congratulating me on being featured on their front page media windows!!! As in the front page of their website! A site that according to some articles out there gets more hits than Saatchi Gallery! Hello! What? I totally freaked. Who knew anyone was watching? Especially a sloth-like network member like me? And it was for my (not-so) new series, still in progress, BRANDED, that I'd just uploaded over the weekend*. Please visit and check it out! I could never pay for such exposure - really. Of course I took a screen capture of it to share here - see below.
*view images samples of the project, featuring music mix by Sawandi.
click for larger view - or footer tab to share!
I wrote her back after two days (it took me a minute to digest this stuff) and thanked her quite enthusiastically; I did not make any effort to hide my shock and befuddlement - trust me. Haha. And she wrote back the most complimentary and encouraging email about how she felt about my work - with adjectives like "emotionally impactful" and "poignant". I still CANNOT believe it. So - the dare is on people...Mind the Gap...EVEN more. Hahaha! You know - in this life, you really NEVER know who's watching. Funny thing is, I kinda put that project to bed, or on a long pause shall we say, but now I aim to finish this thing and get it submitted, once and for all dammit. Special shout out to Sean John (Spur Tree Lounge, NYC) for pushing me to finish this. Love ya buddy! And, and - while I'm there - congrats to him for the recent feature on his restaurant in Maxim Magazine - #2 in top 5 dinner line up in America! AND to my god brother, Akindele Hickling (who my father named by the way - heehee) for his JCDC visual arts awarded paintings as well. He's SUCH an amazing talent as you can see below for yourself. YeehAW!
The Trials of Elegba by Akindele Hickling
Okay so lots of glee here, but I have to reveal something, and I'm sure some of you will concur, that the reality of life as an artist is indeed cathartic, exciting, and purifying, but, it's utterly terrifying sometimes. Especially when it comes to sharing this kind of news, or appealing for support. Overcoming fear to create work is somehow easier than writing this blog post right now...which is why I'm forcing myself to do it. It is important for me to share with you, that of all the little adventures I gleefully, and sometimes (maybe most times) naively charge into - this is always the biggest dare of all. So thank you for hugging me along the way - you'll never know how encouraging it is, how much it means to me.
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Sooooo...(eye dab, sniffle), on that note; here I go leaping across the gap again to plead for your support on a couple other ventures.
I have 4 photos in a shoot out contest called "Beginnings" on the JPG website. Eeek! No awards there, but a cash prize is up for grabs, and I need to hear chi-CHING soon! Please check it out if you have a spare minute. I've linked each entry below. Just click the photos to Visit, View, and Vote:
Secondly, the JCDC/National Gallery Visual Arts Competition has a Viewers Vote section - which I'm now in the running for (like last year some of you might recall...). It would be awesome (and financially useful) to win this - hello - funding to continue my work!!! This is for those of you in Jamaica specifically, as it involves text voting with local cell phone providers. I will be blogging the details on how to vote in my next post. Stay tuned!
In the meantime - make sure to visit the National Gallery and check out the show - it's going on now until Aug 20th! Lemme know how it is since I can't be there. :( :)
Have a SUPER productive, creative, and fun week people!!
Not simply drinking,
This important peaty work
Watering the muse
Haiku by Mystic Urchin
APRIL 2010
Way back in February (I can't believe it's June already!!) I was taken on an incredible drive up to the Blue Mountains and I'm only now posting my notes about it. Still, I can't gush enough about the renewing effect of that fresh clean air high above the heat and smog of Kingston, with breathtaking views of nearly untouched land. It was quite heavenly, and I absolutely aim to do this again when I return to Jamaica.
It's simply a place of modest communities (Irish Town, Hardware Gap, Greenwich...) scattered with beautiful bed and breakfast cabins, private homes, and quaint cafes, all hugged in a cozy blanket of fog and lush flora.
There were breathtaking views of tree fern covered valleys, bright green moss wrapped trees, and quite a bit of non-tropical botanical varieties to my surprise, with pine covered mountainsides, and flower gardens much like you would find in Oxford, England! And that said, there is quite a significant community of British expatriates living up there.
A week after my trip I stumbled upon a Kuya Magazine issue with an article about Greenwich, and a cover photo of the same house I captured here, beautifully shot on a sunny day by Franz Marzouca. It was still on the shelves when I left in May, so grab it if you can find it - the full photo spread is quite magnificent.
click for larger view
Here is a mini list of what I found (and aim to check out when I return):
FLORA: Tree ferns, pines, orchids, sunflowers, ginger lilies, bright green moss (I think it was spanish moss - but don't quote me on on that...), and quite a bit more - the names of which escape me now.
BIRDS: wood pecker, hummingbirds
CAFES/EATERIES:
Gap Cafe - where I ate coconut creamy rice and peas, with 3 pepper spiced yellow curry steamed fish, and a thick slice of homemade carrot cake. and yes, the blue mountain coffee was stella!
Others I hear worth checking out are Cafe Blu, IMZ Cafe, and Mount Edge (thanks Steve!)
INDUSTRY: Catherine's Peak water, Jamaica Coffee Board (Blue Mountain Coffee), Craighton Coffee Estate (tours available), Strawberry Hill Hotel and Spa, and private rental homes and cabins are available - like the one pictured above.
-The Mountain Peak Trail (starting at Abbey Green) I HAVE to do a hike one day...
-Holywell Nature Reserve
-Old Tavern Coffee Estate
Nabes with cabin homes and B+Bs for getaway rentals:
Irish Town
Hardware Gap
Holywell
Greenwich Whitefield Hall
If you have a free weekend and sometime to research a tailor made trip for yourself, do it! It's the rejuvenating gift that keeps on giving. And please let me know what you find - so I can make a list for my next trip!
For way more additional info - check out: -YardEdge and read up on their tale of hiking to the top.
How do I know what I think until I see what I write. ~Unknown
Love does not begin and end the way we seem to think it does. Love is a battle, love is a war; love is a growing up. James Baldwin
For an idea that does not at first seem insane; there is no hope.
Einstein
no one ever really criticizes those who live out their dreams. but some will curse the courage it displays that they have yet to adopt. share not only your dreams but your daring to realize them. go forth and inspire. build together.
~Scoop i•ma•gine | e•volve
People who shut their eyes to reality simply invite their own destruction, and anyone who insists on remaining in a state of innocence long after innocence is dead turns himself into a monster.
~James Baldwin~
The irony of commitment is that it's deeply liberating -- in work, in play, in love. The act frees you from the tyranny of your internal critic, from the fear that likes to dress itself up and parade around as rational hesitation. To commit is to remove your head as the barrier to your life.'
~ Anne Morriss
Imagination is more important than knowledge.
~Albert Einstein
When you stay awake, you see the sun. Anywhere you are, you have to make it your paradise.
~Joseph Buchanan
Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex... It takes a touch of genius - and a lot of courage to move in the opposite direction.
~Albert Einstein
Tomorrow will bring different questions and answers. OWN NOW.
~Scoop
A government which robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul.
~ George Bernard Shaw
A nation that continues year after year to spend more money on military defense than on programs of social uplift is approaching spiritual doom.
~Martin Luther King, Jr.~
Live with your toes digging into the earth, with your eyes open wide, and your heart warm. This way you won't miss a thing little one. :)
~Scoop
The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance - it is the illusion of knowledge.
~Daniel J. Boorstin
Remembering that I'll be dead soon is the most important tool I've ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life. Because almost everything — all external expectations, all pride, all fear of embarrassment or failure - these things just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important. Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose. You are already naked. There is no reason not to follow your heart.
~Steve Jobs
Art is a microscope which the artist fixes on the secrets of his soul, and shows to people these secrets which are common to all.
~Leo Tolstoy
I'd rather be busy than bored; I'd rather burn out than rust out.
Whatever you ardently desire, Sincerely believe in, Vividly imagine, and Enthusiastically act upon, Must inevitably come to pass.
- Sybil Leek, Diary of a Witch
Democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people.
~Oscar Wilde
For every beauty there is an eye somewhere to see it. For every truth there is an ear somewhere to hear it. For every love there is a heart somewhere to receive it.
Ivan Panin
Remember to play after every storm.
~Mattie Stepanek~
The most original thing you've ever come across is actually yourself.
~Saul Williams~
Why fight it? Be seduced by your purpose.
~Scoop~
The light at the end of the tunnel is not an illusion. The tunnel is.
~unknown~
Fear is just another word for ignorance ... Freedom is something that dies unless it's used
~Hunter S. Thompson~
The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes.
~Marcel Proust~
Unexpected beauty in life shatters our monument to suffering.
~Scoop 2001~
Once you label me, you negate me.
~Kierkegard~
The worst realities of our age are manufactured realities. It is therefore our task, as creative participants in the universe, to re dream our world. The fact of possessing imagination means that everything can be re dreamed. Each reality can have it.
~Ben Okri~
Cautionary actions to prevent future pain or loss may also function as obstacles to any happiness you could have presently.
~Berette Macaulay~
Being happy doesn't mean that everything is perfect. It means that you've decided to look beyond the imperfections.
~unknown~
We shall not cease from exploration, but at the end of all of our exploring will be to return to the place from which we originated and to know it for the first time.
~T.S. Elliot~
Isn't it funny how the word 'politics' is made up of the words 'poli' meaning 'many' in Latin, and 'tics' as in 'bloodsucking creatures’?
~Anonymous~
"You have a grand gift of silence, Watson," said he, "it makes you quite invaluable as a companion."
~Sir Arthur Conan Doyle~
Magic becomes art when it has nothing to hide.
~Ben Okri~
[I am] not so interested in the length of the road so much as the width.
~A. Regsmith~
Losers fold; winners take hits.
Forget the odds; draw, raise, bluff, call, stand.
~unknown~
Great ideas are no different from useless thoughts until they are put to use.
~Kynan Cooke, 1994~
In life you don't get what you deserve, you get what you negotiate.
~anonymous~
It takes courage to push yourself to places that you have never been before, to test your limits, to break through barriers. And the day came when the risk it took to remain tight inside the bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.
~Anais Nin~
Choosing to live in narrow spaces leads to a form of mental agoraphobia, and that brings its own terrors. …the willfully unimaginative see more monsters, they are often more afraid.
~JK Rowling~
Chance has never yet satisfied the hope of a suffering people.
~Marcus Garvey~
The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing you will make one. ~Elbert Hubbard~
a simple guide: no NOW...no JOY...no LIFE.
~Robert Holden~
The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, but wiser people so full of doubts.
~Bertrand Russell~
Our society is run by insane people for insane objectives. I think we're being run by maniacs for maniacal ends and I think I'm liable to be put away as insane for expressing that. That's what's insane about it.
~John Lennon~
Being proactive instead of reactive always lessens the pressures of adversity.
~Kevin C. Robinson~
There are times, however, and this is one of them, when even being right feels wrong. What do you say, for instance, about a generation that has been taught that rain is poison and sex is death? If making love might be fatal and if a cool spring breeze on any summer afternoon can turn a crystal blue lake into a puddle of black poison right in front of your eyes, there is not much left except TV and relentless masturbation. It's a strange world. Some people get rich and others eat shit and die.
~Hunter S. Thompson, 1988~
The minute you try to prove yourself is the moment you've lost the point. 'Doing it' moves you forward, 'proving it' takes you back.
~Berette Macaulay~
I want death to find me planting my cabbages.
~Michel de Montaigne~
I love deadlines. I love the whooshing sound they make as they go by.
~Douglas Adams~
In my sex fantasy, nobody ever loves me for my mind.
~Norah Ephron~
Every time you don't follow your inner guidance, you feel a loss of energy, loss of power, a sense of spiritual deadness.
~Shakti Gawain~
Can you get over Something you truly enjoy And if indeed, why?
~Mystic Urchin~
There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, Than are dreamt of in your philosophy.
~William Shakespeare, "Hamlet"~
There are indeed a thousand ways of acquiring an opinion that have nothing to do with rational thinking.
~R.J. Hollingdale~
There is need to sway Naked Rhythm summons blues Wind and Whispers dance.
~Mystic Urchin~
Chill out somewhere for a minute. Things get clearer when you get quiet.
~Scoop~
Love is rarer than genius itself. And friendship is rarer than love.
~Charles Peguy~
We are so accustomed to disguising ourselves to others that in the end we become disguised to ourselves.
~Francois de La Rochefoucauld~
A man is not an orange. You can't eat the fruit and throw the peel away.
~Arthur Miller~
There is no truth; everything is permitted.
~William S. Burroughs~
Nothing is true or false but thinking makes it so. You believe you have appeased the thunder and lightening and the ground that grows your grain; you believe it, you have. ~Shakespeare~
Knowing how to see is much more important than what kind of camera or lights you have.
~ David Harry Stuart~
Every work comes into being in the same way as the cosmos – by means of catastrophes…
~Wassily Kandinsky~
Every man takes The limits of his Own field of vision For the limits of the world.
~Arthure Schopenhauer~ 1788-1860, Studies in Pessimism
Pick a theme and work it to exhaustion... the subject must be something you truly love or truly hate.
~Dorothea Lange~
Writing, I think, is not apart from living. Writing is a kind of double living. The writer experiences everything twice. Once in reality and once in that mirror which waits always before or behind.
Catherine Drinker Bowen
Nature Will Hold You Live within Integrity Sweet Dew Forever
~Ku by Scoop~
No man is so foolish but he may sometimes give another good counsel, and no man so wise that he may not easily err if he takes no other counsel than his own. He that is taught only by himself has a fool for a master. ~Hunter S. Thompson~
I refuse to lose my mind to the sadness locked in the illusion of my finitude.
~Chuma and Fiswe~
fear of mediocrity creates it by narrowing your vision of yourself. get as far away from fear as you can by daring your ass to face it everyday.
~Berette Macaulay~
Life should NOT be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in an attractive and well preserved body, but rather to skid in sideways, chocolate in one hand, martini in the other, body thoroughly used up, totally worn out and screaming -WOO HOO what a ride! ~JAH – E~
Kill the arrogance. It will never serve you in the long run - as ultimately it acts as an inhibitor.
~Berette Macaulay~
Desire is a magnificent nomadic energy.
~Scoop, inspired by Nietzche~
Ability is what you're capable of doing. Motivation determines what you do. Attitude determines how well you do it.
~Lou Holtz~
There’s no great genius without some touch of madness.
~Seneca~
Live for the truth or lie What are the consequences? RECIPROCITY
~Ku by Scoop~
The Edge... there is no honest way to explain it because the only people who really know where it is are the ones who have gone over.
~Hunter S. Thompson~
Water marks the way, We wander thru wet slipways, Happy to be damp.
~ Ku by Steve Wilson, nee Mystic Urchin ~
“You can easily judge the character of a man by how he treats those who can do nothing for him.”
MIND THE GAP
The delights of self-discovery are always available.
-Gail Sheehy
"Watch Your Thoughts, They Become Your Words,Watch Your Words, They Become Your Actions, Watch Your Actions, They Become Your Habits, Watch Your Habits, They Become Your Character, Watch Your Character For It Becomes Your Destiny"
One should really use the camera as though tomorrow you'd be stricken blind.
-Dorothea Lange-
“Fear is temporary. Regret lasts a lifetime.”
“Caution is the death of Creativity”
Let your deeds themselves praise you, for here I leave them in all their glory, lacking words to extol them.
