beginnings...
New Year’s Day…..fresh & clean…..completed this assemblage piece….came together with my thinking about moving from the old to the new…
Titled…..Sacred Duende…..a concept I’ve been studying for a long time…this is one of my favorite books about this soulful ideal….fascinating…
in search of rapture…
endings...Sacred Duende...
intentions for the new year….begin with a motivation to give…..
sharing my gifts….this is a great place to start…
duende & art & giving & searching…
Lorca believed that the duende fills the artistic maker with such an extreme feeling that a fresh mode of expression becomes absolutely necessary. It pressures a formal response & seeks a transfiguring music. As he expresses it…
‘The duende’s arrival always means a radical change in forms. It brings to old planes unknown feelings of freshness, with the quality of something newly created, like a miracle, & it produces an almost religious enthusiasm’…..Edward Hirsch….The Demon & The Angel
in the aftermath of your new year’s celebrating, may you find your soulful journey….
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