The River of Silence

Becoming Visible
6x6

Silence helps me see, hear and feel. Silence helps me create.

Stillness puts me in touch with what is mine; the authentic, the quirky, the gift from the deep well from which we all draw up our creative water droplets.   I enjoy discovering the surprises that surface when I work in connection with stillness.

Only when you drink from the river of silence

shall you sing.

~Kahlil Gibran

Yet to Become

11x11  

Never talk away the magic. 

Danish Saying 

Silence is not the absence of sound. The birds still sing, the fan softly whirs, the stream continues to rush to the sea. 

Silence is the absence of chatter, of distracting noise and loudness. 

Silence allows me to respond to what is happening on the surface as I work. 

Silence is a conversation without words between the work and and me.

Remember

6x6

I sat staring, staring, staring - half lost, 

learning a new language or rather the same language 

in a different dialect. 

So still were the big woods where I sat, 

sound might not yet have been born.

~Emily Carr

Silence is the space between the coming and going of my own thoughts. Quietude is the midwife of my work.

Shut up and play your guitar.

~Frank Zappa