tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-64666710110115177192024-03-15T07:45:37.225-07:00LIVING WITH ARTAbout the life of a mature female artist in and out of the studio.
Anne Russellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09211975737756493320noreply@blogger.comBlogger39125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6466671011011517719.post-5693319624363372982022-01-20T04:31:00.059-08:002022-07-13T06:21:43.031-07:00ON BECOMING A PAINTER <p><br /></p><p> "<span style="font-size: medium;">One is not born a woman .. one becomes a woman "</span></p><p> Simon De Beauvoir</p><p><span color="inherit" style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-weight: inherit; text-align: inherit; text-decoration-line: inherit; text-transform: inherit;"> One Is Not Born A Painter .. A Poet Maybe ,An Artist .. 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padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; text-align: center;"><br /></span></div><div class="photo" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 0; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; text-align: center;"><br /></span></div><div class="photo" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 0; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; text-align: center;">How And Why A Painter</span><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-weight: inherit;">Emotion And Empathy Have Always Been My Stock In Trade.. It Started In Childhood Dancing To My Grandmothers Improvised And Inspired Piano-Playing. I Wrote And Illustrated My Own Poetry As A Little Girl, I Drew And Painted And As A Teenager, Became A Professional Performer Dancing, Acting And Singing . I Have Been Dedicated To Expressing Feelings Which Have Became More Intense And Deeply Felt As I Have Grown Older</span></div></div></div></div><div class="contentsection contentsection-article checkempty" id="article_article" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; font: inherit; margin: 0px; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; zoom: 1;"><div class="contentpadding" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative; zoom: 1;"><div class="contentInner" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">By 1969 I Was A Successful Actress With The Traverse Theatre Company ,An Experimental Group Improvising Daily As Part Of Our Remit To Develop The Work Of New Writers. When I Was Chosen By Lindsay Kemp To Join His Troupe In 1969 I Was A Successful Actress It Was Because Of My Performance Which Was Pure Butoh , It Was A Mime And Expressed Overpowering Feeling.<br style="box-sizing: inherit;" />My Time With The Troupe Ended In 1975 When The Performance Of Salome In Which I Played The Title Role To Great Acclaim (At The Traverse Theatre) . Was Scupperred Who Wanted To Play The Role Himself. It Finished Me With The Theatre . I Became Very Ill At The Loss Of What I Felt To Be The Apex Of My Career .<br style="box-sizing: inherit;" />After This Painful Experience ,I Lost My Self Esteem And I Became A Burlesque Artist And Made Money Working ,Amongst Other Places, At The Windmill Theatre In London. In 2003 I Went To Art-College. I Graduated In 1986 Having Staggered Through An Intellectual And Conceptual Bramble Patch. I Understood Nothing . More Than One Tutor Thought I Aught Not To Be There And I Agree.I Made Videos And Did Performance While There But No Support Or Any Understanding . Frankly, None Of The Tutors Had A Clue Where I Was Coming From .<br style="box-sizing: inherit;" />After Graduating I Had Started Painting As The One And Only Thing I Had Learned Was That It Did Not Matter What I Did . I Went Straight To My Heart , To My Feelings As My Resource As It Is All I Have.<br style="box-sizing: inherit;" /><br style="box-sizing: inherit;" />I Have Been Painting For 30 Years And Since Then Have Synthesized A Love Of Colour Line And Form With The Wildness Of My Nature ,Love Of Exploration ,Improvisation , Poetry , The Wilderness ,Flora And Fauna . Inspired By Textiles And Design Of All Forms She Is Surrounded By In Cosmopolitan Contemporary London , I Paint Religiously Intuitively And Figuratively With Verve .<br style="box-sizing: inherit;" /><br /></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>Anne Russellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09211975737756493320noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6466671011011517719.post-52825938171166010892021-01-30T08:19:00.006-08:002021-04-28T02:01:10.105-07:00<span style="color: #cc0000; font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;">A NEW CHALLENGE</span><div><span style="color: #cc0000; font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: medium;">SHIPPING A FRAMED CANVAS </span></span></div><div><span style="color: #cc0000; font-family: georgia;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div></span></div><div><span style="color: #cc0000; font-family: georgia;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhvC9aWHt17DHd_E8ZgkTU_1qTu071U5qDO1WfrZkH1eMcDBjaNZmo_ht7N34rzkibYUBqBC7PBdqa6DJuCm9oZbw1EytUFZvx255Sl-Ut66IUSvV72drR9FO7u0yhnQ_06jXw8w1pj_M-b/s4160/IMG_20210129_143100.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4160" data-original-width="2000" height="379" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhvC9aWHt17DHd_E8ZgkTU_1qTu071U5qDO1WfrZkH1eMcDBjaNZmo_ht7N34rzkibYUBqBC7PBdqa6DJuCm9oZbw1EytUFZvx255Sl-Ut66IUSvV72drR9FO7u0yhnQ_06jXw8w1pj_M-b/w207-h379/IMG_20210129_143100.jpg" width="207" /></a></div></span></div><div><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #cc0000; font-family: georgia;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="color: #cc0000; font-family: georgia;">I dont know why Im choosing to write this particular post in red except that I recently had 👎</span><span style="color: #cc0000; font-family: georgia;">ROYAL MAIL 👎 lose or at least , fail to deliver, a piece of my artwork . Refunding the buyer was a bitter pill I can tell you and the buyer was very disapointed too. </span></div></span></span></div><div><span style="color: #cc0000; font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span style="color: #cc0000; font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">To diverge for a moment , This "😷 you know what "and its ever -recurring lockdown has been great for us artists . Instagram in particular has become an opportunity to sell work . I have enjoyed making works on paper and posting them off . The income has been really uplifting in these dull times and the purchasing collectors etc out there are eager to buy because they love art and they love collecting .</span></div><div><span style="color: #cc0000; font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="color: #cc0000; font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">OK so .... I , without giving it any thought , made a framed 20x20 inch framed painting available for purchase . Really all I want to say in this post is this </span></div><div><span style="color: #cc0000; font-size: large;">THINK BEFORE YOU DO IT fellow artists !!! Its not at all the same as popping something into an envelope with some cardboard backing to prevent bending of paper ,as one might with a smallish work on paper ,popping it into a plastic sleeve, wrapping it in a plastic bag and binding it with good old sellotape . </span></div><div><span style="color: #cc0000; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="color: #cc0000; font-size: large;">Suffice to say that the kind of packaging and weighing and measuring requires big cardboard (unobtainable for me at this time), heavy duty packaging tape, a scale ,possibly a bathroom one would do but I I dont have one although I probably aught to get one what with the ever expanding girth I note developing , and some skill with numbers when it comes to arranging and calculating the payment to a shipper , in my case I have chosen UPS because there is a drop off point nearby .</span></div><div><span style="color: #cc0000; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="color: #cc0000; font-size: large;">The other mistake I made , was not checking on the shipping cost before posting the painting on instagram , where it got immediate offers . Now I feel daft at having underpriced it . </span></div><div><span style="color: #cc0000; font-size: large;">Anyway ... I guess Ill cope .I really need the cash and my solo show has been locked down since March awaiting a relaunch</span></div><div><span style="color: #cc0000; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="color: #cc0000; font-size: large;">The bottom line (literally) is , only include the postage in the price if you know what it is . </span></div><div><span style="color: #cc0000; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div><br /></div><div><span style="color: #cc0000; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="color: #cc0000; font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span style="color: #cc0000; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><span style="color: #cc0000; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span><div><br /><span style="color: #cc0000; font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"><br /></span></div></div>Anne Russellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09211975737756493320noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6466671011011517719.post-12153306199965883052017-06-27T06:36:00.000-07:002017-06-27T06:36:44.772-07:00The Burning at Grenfell House <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Take a minute ... then take action ... some action any action that demonstrates how you feel about the poorer members of this culture of ours that we have helped create by not standing up and saying , praying together for a better ,fairer ,kinder society that puts people first and by people , I mean all people even the greedy even the mean for they are at the heart of this tragedy those who could help are very important people but they must be encouraged ,or shamed if necessary to help those people who can only help themselves up to a point and are ever dependent on those with more power and money . Anne Russell 2017</div>
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It was like a burnt matchbox in the sky.<br />It was black and long and burnt in the sky.<br />You saw it through the flowering stump of trees.<br />You saw it beyond the ochre spire of the church.<br />You saw it in the tears of those who survived.<br />You saw it through the rage of those who survived.<br />You saw it past the posters of those who had burnt to ashes.<br />You saw it past the posters of those who jumped to their deaths.<br />You saw it through the TV images of flames through windows<br />Running up the aluminium cladding<br />You saw it in print images of flames bursting out from the roof.<br />You heard it in the voices loud in the streets.<br />You heard it in the cries in the air howling for justice.<br />You heard it in the pubs the streets the basements the digs.<br />You heard it in the wailing of women and the silent scream<br />Of orphans wandering the streets<br />You saw it in your baby who couldn’t sleep at night<br />Spooked by the ghosts that wander the area still trying<br />To escape the fires that came at them black and choking.<br />You saw it in your dreams of the dead asking if living<br />Had no meaning being poor in a land<br />Where the poor die in flames without warning.<br />But when you saw it with your eyes it seemed what the eyes<br />Saw did not make sense cannot make sense will not make sense.<br />You saw it there in the sky, tall and black and burnt.<br />You counted the windows and counted the floors<br />And saw the sickly yellow of the half burnt cladding<br />And what you saw could only be seen in nightmare.<br />Like a war-zone come to the depths of a fashionable borough.<br />Like a war-zone planted here in the city.<br />To see with the eyes that which one only sees<br />In nightmares turns the day to night, turns the world upside down.</div>
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<em>Those who were living now are dead</em><br /><em>Those who were breathing are from the living earth fled.</em><br /><em>If you want to see how the poor die, come see Grenfell Tower.</em><br /><em>See the tower, and let a world-changing dream flower.</em></div>
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Residents of the area call it the crematorium.<br />It has revealed the undercurrents of our age.<br />The poor who thought voting for the rich would save them.<br />The poor who believed all that the papers said.<br />The poor who listened with their fears.<br />The poor who live in their rooms and dream for their kids.<br />The poor are you and I, you in your garden of flowers,<br />In your house of books, who gaze from afar<br />At a destiny that draws near with another name.<br />Sometimes it takes an image to wake up a nation<br />From its secret shame. And here it is every name<br />Of someone burnt to death, on the stairs or in their room,<br />Who had no idea what they died for, or how they were betrayed.<br />They did not die when they died; their deaths happened long<br />Before. It happened in the minds of people who never saw<br />Them. It happened in the profit margins. It happened<br />In the laws. They died because money could be saved and made.</div>
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<em>Those who are living now are dead</em><br /><em>Those who were breathing are from the living earth fled.</em><br /><em>If you want to see how the poor die, come see Grenfell Tower</em><br /><em>See the tower, and let a world-changing dream flower.</em></div>
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They called the tower ugly; they named it an eyesore.<br />All around the beautiful people in their beautiful houses<br />Didn’t want the ugly tower to ruin their house prices.<br />Ten million was spent to encase the tower in cladding.<br />Had it ever been tested before except on this eyesore,<br />Had it ever been tested for fire, been tried in a blaze?<br />But it made the tower look pretty, yes it made the tower look pretty.<br />But in twenty four storeys, not a single sprinkler.<br />In twenty four storeys not a single alarm that worked.<br />In twenty four storeys not a single fire escape,<br />Only a single stairwell designed in hell, waiting<br />For an inferno. That’s the story of our times.<br />Make it pretty on the outside, but a death trap<br />On the inside. Make the hollow sound nice, make<br />The empty look nice. That’s all they will see,<br />How it looks, how it sounds, not how it really is, unseen.<br />But if you really look you can see it, if you really listen<br />You can hear it. You’ve got to look beneath the cladding.<br />There’s cladding everywhere. Political cladding,<br />Economic cladding, intellectual cladding — things that look good<br />But have no centre, have no heart, only moral padding.<br />They say the words but the words are hollow.<br />They make the gestures and the gestures are shallow.<br />Their bodies come to the burnt tower but their souls don’t follow.</div>
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<em>Those who were living are now dead</em><br /><em>Those who were breathing are from the living earth fled.</em><br /><em>If you want to see how the poor die, come see Grenfell Tower</em><br /><em>See the tower, and let a world-changing deed flower.</em></div>
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The voices here must speak for the dead.<br />Speak for the dead. Speak for the dead.<br />See their pictures line the walls. Poverty is its own<br />Colour, its own race. They were Muslim and Christian,<br />Black and white and colours in between. They were young<br />And old and beautiful and middle aged. There were girls<br />In their best dresses with hearts open to the future.<br />There was an old man with his grandchildren;<br />There was Amaya Tuccu, three years old,<br />Burnt to ashes before she could see the lies of the world.<br />There are names who were living beings who dreamt<br />Of fame or contentment or education or love<br />Who are now ashes in a burnt out shell of cynicism.<br />There were two Italians, lovely and young,<br />Who in the inferno were on their mobile phone to friends<br />While the smoke of profits suffocated their voices.<br />There was the baby thrown from many storeys high<br />By a mother who knew otherwise he would die.<br />There were those who jumped from their windows<br />And those who died because they were told to stay<br />In their burning rooms. There was the little girl on fire<br />Seen diving out from the twentieth floor. Need I say more.</div>
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<em>Those who are living are now dead</em><br /><em>Those who were breathing are from the living earth fled.</em><br /><em>If you want to see how the poor die, come see Grenfell Tower.</em><br /><em>See the tower, and let a world-changing deed flower.</em></div>
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Always there’s that discrepancy<br />Between what happens and what we are told.<br />The official figures were stuck at thirty.<br />Truth in the world is rarer than gold.<br />Bodies brought out in the dark<br />Bodies still in the dark.<br />Dark the smoke and dark the head.<br />Those who were living are now dead.</div>
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And while the tower flamed they were tripping<br />Over bodies at the stairs<br />Because it was pitch black.<br />And those that survived<br />Sleep like refugees on the floor<br />Of a sports centre.<br />And like creatures scared of the dark,<br />A figure from on high flits by,<br />Speaking to the police and brave firefighters,<br />But avoiding the victims,<br />Whose hearts must be brimming with dread.<br />Those who were breathing are from the living earth fled.</div>
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But if you go to Grenfell Tower, if you can pull<br />Yourselves from your tennis games and your perfect dinners<br />If you go there while the black skeleton of that living tower<br />Still stands unreal in the air, a warning for similar towers to fear,<br />You will breathe the air thick with grief<br />With women spontaneously weeping<br />And children wandering around stunned<br />And men secretly wiping a tear from the eye<br />And people unbelieving staring at this sinister form in the sky<br />You will see the trees with their leaves green and clean<br />And will inhale the incense meant<br />To cleanse the air of unhappiness<br />You will see banks of flowers<br />And white paper walls sobbing with words<br />And candles burning for the blessing of the dead<br />You will see the true meaning of community<br />Food shared and stories told and volunteers everywhere<br />You will breathe the air of incinerators<br />Mixed with the essence of flower.<br />If you want to see how the poor die, come see Grenfell Tower.</div>
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Make sense of these figures if you will<br />For the spirit lives where truth cannot kill.<br />Ten million spent on the falsely clad<br />In a fire where hundreds lost all they had.<br />Five million offered in relief<br />Ought to make a nation alter its belief.<br />An image gives life and an image kills.<br />The heart reveals itself beyond political skills.<br />In this age of austerity<br />The poor die for others’ prosperity.<br />Nurseries and libraries fade from the land.<br />A strange time is shaping on the strand.<br />A sword of fate hangs over the deafness of power.<br />See the tower, and let a new world-changing thought flower.</div>
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Anne Russellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09211975737756493320noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6466671011011517719.post-16233998869867611772017-06-20T10:57:00.000-07:002017-06-26T08:20:48.671-07:00 The art of dressing my "self"<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Gudren is a "good " woman who works and creates to "live a good life " and so am I</div>
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Gudren loves nature so do I </div>
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Gudren says "Beauty to me is adding colours and patterns" I agree </div>
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Gudren says "Quality of life is living close to nature in colourful comfortable and practical clothes "<br />
Gudrens' designs are eco-friendly ,affordable, high quality , modest , suitable unto my years ,a little folksy (which I favour) and definitely Bohemian like Gudren and myself. She makes clothes for those who are like herself . She makes the clothes she likes for all women like her of all ages ,in natural organic fibres . <br />
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I choose to wear these clothes because they ad"dress"what I believe in at soul level<br />
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What to wear over 70 ?<br />
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Since the departure of Tanya Sarne of the Ghost fashion label I have felt bereft of what was once the very great pleasure of clothes shopping .Ghost still exists but it is not hers anymore , and there are none of the great warehouse sales beloved of so many others of my tribe .<br />
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I love all the are e wares on sale in the Anthropology emporium but really, apart from the odd household item in the sale I find it way over my budget and I have heard odd stories re: ethics there which put me off a little although they may not be true .<br />
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Other things are out there that I like the look of .. linen eco cotton garments etc I notice them all but none compare with the value I find at Monmouth Street in Covent Garden at the London store of .......<br />
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(petticoat £45 Dress £75 tunic £68 scarf £17 )</div>
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so here is the website : a portal to this planet-loving , life-enhancing ,age-inclusive , spiritually-sound, ethical , reasonably priced (given the quality &durability), bohemian style trip. For folk like us that is to say, Gudren and me </div>
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India itself seems to be somewhere between Sanyassin and Bollywood .........<br />
On the edge is(to be) in the middle<br />
in between is to be on an edge<br />
what does it mean to be "edgy " It sounds like neither one thing ot the other right ?<br />
I found India to be exactly that .<br />
On the one hand there is a sensuality that is almost overpowering in terms of smell colour and decoration. At the same time , as one floats or is propelled unceremoniously along amidst this profusion of flora and fauna ,(albeit squirrels crows eagles dogs and cows) in an auto rickshaw, there is the ashram ,its simple food , modest dress code and religious devotion . <br />
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I went to Pondicherry on a pilgrimage and lived there for two months .<br />
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My father had sailed that coast known as the Coromandel coast, stretching from Calcutta to Ceylon on the Bay of Bengal many times before I was born and for a while thereafter also. My earliest memories of my father were his homecomings to our calvinist family home in Scotland , bearing exotic gifts for my mother. I fell in love with India and Ceylon ,with Kandi ,sitting atop a small high mountain ,was I fanticised, my domain , I felt from that time on , that I really had been to Calcutta Madras ,Ceylon and everything in between and that I knew this coast and its Tamil people . <br />
India became and remained integral to my sense of identity . Coupled with some stories my father read to me ,that were not Rudyard Kipling that's for sure , were written in language that was as exotic as the gifts he brought and more like something from the bible ,Thus a pathway developed in my brain that led me far far away from Grey Gables in Bonnie Scotland to India where people, gods and goddesses were interchangable <br />
Of course I did not continue to perpetuate the idea of my Royalty but India went deeper and deeper into the deepest recesses of my imagination and became real.<br />
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<span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">I had come accross the artist Francesco Clemente some time in the 1980/'s at a time when conceptual work abounded and painting was considered dead.</span><br />
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" seed"1991 by Francesco Clemente<br />
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<span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">I was attracted to the freedom ,eccentricity , sensuality and the strong expressionistic
rather mysterious and very personal eroticism of Clementes' work ; its midnight , almost drunken yet very clearly
defined psychic quality . It looked to me like it could be incredibly
meaningful or utterly shallow and meaningless .</span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">I can only say I was drawn
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<span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">It was from this Italian born artist that I learned of Pondicherry
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Pondicherry was the papermaking capital of India .( Im not sure that this is
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flight . I was there , in my every waking hour , I was there like Clemente and felt a strong desire to also have his experience ,I felt that paper
and saw all the colour and sights that had inspired so much of Clementes’
oeuvre and held within it a voice I recognised as close to my deepest and
truest self aka my soul It was my voice also . <o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">There are 2 more “coincidences” , where my souls’ desire and this bit of coast coincided , it was like I was being enfolded in a warm familial embrace.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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Anne Russellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09211975737756493320noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6466671011011517719.post-81804741660087622322017-04-24T08:10:00.000-07:002017-04-24T08:13:27.521-07:00MY INDIAN SKETCHBOOK<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Anne Russellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09211975737756493320noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6466671011011517719.post-12631535687619198412016-04-15T07:32:00.001-07:002016-04-16T07:41:47.569-07:00FREE COMFORT-ZONE<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Needed to get my feet up ,as you do after traipsing around looking for the best value kettle . I mean I have lived in cute little towns where to get everything you need is within a 500 yard walk . That's great ,but I live in London ,that is made up of villages ,so they say . Some of these villages ,however are really big and the borough or "village" of Kensington and Chelsea is big. Very big ,and ,indeed is made up of two villages ,Kensington & Chelsea.. </div>
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Anyhow, just in case you find your self stuck on Kensington High Street and in need of a sit down that wont cost you the inflated price of a cup of coffee , here is my recommendation. and here are my feet up in my recommended spot .</div>
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<span style="text-align: justify;">and here are my feet up in my recommended spot .</span></div>
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This is the view from said window ,it is looking up Kensington Church Street towards Nottinghill Gate. I am sitting here ,with my feet up in an ARMCHAIR folks , a<i> comfortable</i> armchair . No-one bothers me . I am not obliged to buy anything. I can eat or drink if I want to ,right here in this quiet spot looking out on a London that is pretty well iconic .</div>
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OK so it was Barkers and it was BIBA too ,both landmarks of a time gone by and part of my life that has gone by with both . I used to be a waitress in the divine rainbow room high in the roof garden of BIBA back in the day ,back in the days when gold-rimmed black coffee cups were exciting .Well the staircase remains in its art-deco glory</div>
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Anyway my dears, it is now an enormous wholefood store ,it is called Kensington Wholefoods and is situated at the top end of Kensington High Street which for reasons of economy we call High Street Ken.</div>
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I say "top end" as High Street Ken is an incline or hill .</div>
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I aught to say , this is quite an obscure spot in this otherwise bustling store . It is situated up the stairs pictured above ,then turn sharp right on the first floor . PS. there is free wi-fi . </div>
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Think of me dear reader, if you do drop in here as I think of you whilst lounging in this free comfort zone</div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "verdana" , "palatino" , serif; font-size: 14.6667px;">We artists find great fulfilment in pursuing our craft, but we are always dissatisfied with the results, which pushes us toward growth and excellence. (</span><a href="http://www.art-quotes.com/auth_search.php?authid=4612" style="background-color: white; color: #000044; font-family: verdana, palatino, serif; font-size: 14.6667px;" title="More Art Quotes by Steve Easterwood">Steve Easterwood</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "verdana" , "palatino" , serif; font-size: 14.6667px;">)</span></blockquote>
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today is a Wednesday . Wednesday is a painting day . Why do I have a painting day? good question . Why do I do anything ? Because I<i> want</i> to be a better painter .( to self ..Is it all about becoming <i>better ?</i> am <i>I</i> not good enough ? Am I good ? after better will I want to be<i> best</i> ? ..no ,but I would like to be <b>my </b> best and someones <i>favourite</i> !I am more than one persons favourite person already and am loved by one or two also.)<br />
I <i>want</i> to be more skilled at everything.<br />
There is a great deal of desire it seems in my life in all that <i>wanting</i>. Is there passion ? What is the difference between passion and desire ? between passion and wanting ?<br />
I have a passion for colour ,for design for beauty for nature, for kindness ,for wholeness and integrity and a desire ,a want, to love and be loved . I want love ?<br />
Am I wanting love ? Do I really <i>feel </i>myself to be <i>without </i>love ? I do not love <i>myself</i> very much these days , so yes I am wanting <i>that</i> love <i>my</i> love for my <i>self .</i><br />
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How can I love myself more ? I cannot be younger ,taller ,smarter,but I could be more "successful" could I not ?<br />
Success has to be evaluated and measured .It is an outcome . I learnt this in my teacher training .<br />
There has to be a goal or rather ,in teaching terms, an<i> aim</i> . I have never been good at setting goals which is ,I suppose why I am a little hazy about what success or successes I may have had over the years.<br />
However, In November 2014 I set myself the goal of becoming a better painter. Have I achieved that goal ? By what criteria should,or could ,I now measure my level of success ?<br />
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The 2003 image of the mare and foal on the moor ,to my surprise ,shares certain similarities with the second 2015 image of the swallows . The difference ,other than the medium ,(the first being in oil and the second in acrylic),is that the horses were painted plein air ,out in the open ,on Dartmoor and I was painting what I saw . The swallows on the other hand were purely from my imagination and not at all conceived of when I began the painting.<br />
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I am not a better painter than before . I am though a different sort of painter ,braver and my imagination more liberated . So There you are regardless of whether the painting has improved , I have definitely improved as a painter . I am braver and more liberated. I have more to learn about colour and about the dark . </div>
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I also enjoy this process more than painting directly what I see . It is quite different from painting what one sees and going straight for reproducing the object or scene on the flat surface ,which of course has it's pleasure and its value. I find the latter too easy . Too easy , so not much of an achievement . I now enjoy the exploration of colour for its own sake in fact I am passionate about it whereas previously I was just copying it from the subject. I explore the very edge of failure throughout the process . </div>
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When I began this blog , I didn't know quite how to put it ,but I wanted to talk about how everything in life can be an art . I was not sure if that was even true as I am aware of the natural tendencies we are all pretty much governed by.<br />
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That was quite a while ago now when I had this urge to proclaim "everyone can be an artist ... everyone IS an artist ...etc" . I still believe this to be so but along the way I have come to realise ,to learn , what a deeply complex relationship this is between art and nature and that I don,t know that much about either ,well not enough to make any grand statement or get involved in lengthy or profound didactical debate on the topic.<br />
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The tea drinking ceremony . <a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=6466671011011517719#editor/target=post;postID=5109086020610002834;onPublishedMenu=allposts;onClosedMenu=allposts;postNum=22;src=postname">https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=6466671011011517719#editor/target=post;postID=5109086020610002834;onPublishedMenu=allposts;onClosedMenu=allposts;postNum=22;src=postname</a> stands out to me as an example of what the artist in the article in the link below is emulating<br />
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I guess the question , I am trying to answer for myself is "WHEN is something art ?" closely followed by "WHAT is art ? "<br />
reading this article/review <a href="http://magazine.good.is/articles/the-taste-of-human-emotions?utm_source=thedailygood&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=dailygood">http://magazine.good.is/articles/the-taste-of-human-emotions?utm_source=thedailygood&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=dailygood</a> today , I get the feeling stronger than ever that art is just whatsoever we say it is and that ultimately the only people who really should be giving a darn WHAT it is should be the professional critics and the rest of us should just get on with living and doing it to the best of our abilities and bring to it our many differences ,dreams and aspirations .<br />
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Anne Russellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09211975737756493320noreply@blogger.com0London Borough of Islington, Greater London, UK51.5465063 -0.1058057999999846351.4675103 -0.26716729999998462 51.625502299999994 0.055555700000015362tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6466671011011517719.post-89577570746176940612014-09-03T09:52:00.002-07:002021-12-18T03:27:05.256-08:00BEGINNERS MIND <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
Strange as it seems to me, I suddenly realise ,that although I have been painting for nigh on 30 years , I have never learned to paint.<br />
I don't mean to say I have learned nothing from experience . I have, however, never been <i> taught .</i><br />
<i><br /></i>At Art College I hid my copy of the newly published interiors magazine under my table and whilst lusting after the beautiful and interesting rooms and other spaces I saw , wanting to be either an interior designer or at the very least a painter of images to place in such lovely spaces as those I was enjoying in the magazine . Meanwhile , I tried to please my personal tutor by making installations and performance pieces that money could not buy and could definitely not be accommodated anywhere other than in a gallery.<br />
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I graduated from an art college in 1986 .I had studied fine art for four long years. What I learned there and was actively taught, was that impermanence was the goal of the artist. . I was encouraged ,or perhaps ,indoctrinated would be a better word, to believe that only pieces that could not be purchased <i> </i>by the bourgeoisie were worth making.<br />
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On graduating I had no idea what I was going to do as I had no longer got the access to the technology or manual assistance that I had at art school .... I studied interior design and ceramics but they did not satisfy all that much although I enjoyed both.<br />
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I studied interior design and ceramics after my fine art course , and although I enjoyed decorating and designing for their potential to explore my eclectic taste for folk art, ethnography ,religion, poetry and everything in between , ultimately I was a (so called) <i>fine</i> artist and I needed a medium through which I could express my experience of being alive .<br />
Did I say , I am shy ? Yes shy of my poetic nature , of my deep love of all that is sentient phenomina .. I was an "EMO" ,I think that means ,emotionally overwhelmed, if not, it does now as far as I'm concerned.so I taught myself HOW TO PAINT <br />
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I started with Rubens . And I started with How Rubens started his paintings ie. under-drawing in red ochre/burnt sienna.<br />
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I started from the heart (mine) and with the heart above on the left wall of the studio and the canvas behind me in the centre is a hand copied lace mantilla and a heart . I was in mourning for lost love . and I was starting as I meant to continue , that is to say , from real emotional experience .<br />
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Anne Russellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09211975737756493320noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6466671011011517719.post-9636180187208616412013-12-14T03:46:00.000-08:002013-12-15T07:31:17.457-08:00 The aesthetics of joy : Marie Laurencin<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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If you have never heard of her, I am delighted to introduce you to Marie Laurencin , a contemporary of Picasso and member of Picasso's inner circle of artists . </div>
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Anne Russellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09211975737756493320noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6466671011011517719.post-51090860206100028342013-09-25T03:43:00.000-07:002013-09-29T01:43:02.123-07:00MORE TEA LOVE ? <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<b>TWO IMAGES OF TEA PREPARATION TO COMPARE AND CONTRAST</b></div>
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<b style="text-align: left;">I would like to say more about tea and ritual but below is pretty well everything I might have said If only I had more time ..... for tea and other pleasing , pleasant rituals . I will definitely fit an occasional tea ritual in to my now over-extended project list. </b></td></tr>
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<b>I should add that the above image is called "invitation to tea with grandma " and that my own grandma ritually baked a laden table of heavenly cakes ,pies and more , for all the family , the fare was served from ancient matching bone- china on a huge lace cloth ( lovingly laundered) . She would have baked for an entire day yet would appear fresh and beautiful .</b><br />
<b>I will be looking for a venue for tea to share with you all or I may even try it in my studio. (a work of art ? ) grandma's was a work of art "an act and art of LOVE" </b><br />
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Anne Russellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09211975737756493320noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6466671011011517719.post-3020163704590918462012-10-27T08:56:00.000-07:002012-10-27T09:01:12.760-07:00CORBUSIER LIVES (IN RED BRICK )<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
One building has just gone up to the right of my view and another to the left has been demolished . <br />
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The one that has gone up is an art college, Kensington &Chelsea Art college. I like very much the fact that it resembles (in outline) the old Chelsea College of art that is no more here in Chelsea . It has the same vents (or whatever they are ) on its flat roof .<br />
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<a href="http://blogs.arts.ac.uk/chelsea/2010/11/26/farewell-manresa-road/">http://blogs.arts.ac.uk/chelsea/2010/11/26/farewell-manresa-road/</a><br />
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I always thought the Art School building in Manresa Road to be very modern and stylish <br />
back in the day when Chelsea was very traditional and had very few if any modern buildings .There were of course a few squeezed in here and there between whitepainted and illustrious semi-detatched houses . <br />
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The building that has been demolished is the Penguin Book Building ,to my immediate left. This was a landmark until it became a white elephant and has lain empty for the las ten years . Anyway that's gone now (and very quickly too ) all seven floors of it . It is to be rebuilt as social housing . <br />
The building I live in was built originally as social housing . Local residents kicked up a right old fuss about it as they felt it would lower the tone of the neighbourhood ! <br />
Residents here,some of my neighbours, who csme here as social housing tennants but have since bought thier leases are not at all happy about the building next door becoming social housing , amazing really when you think that fifty years ago the entire block was a brewery ........You've got to laugh !Or you might weep at mans foolishness , greed vanity and selective memory .<br />
Yes I have developed the art of just shaking my head and having a little laugh .<br />
meanwhile here is the building I would like to see next door <br />
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Anne Russellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09211975737756493320noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6466671011011517719.post-45662867595739814682012-04-19T04:51:00.005-07:002012-04-19T04:57:12.171-07:00BLOOMING MARVELOUSLY<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><blockquote class="tr_bq"><span style="color: magenta; font-size: large;">And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.<br />
- Anais Nin</span></blockquote><blockquote class="tr_bq"><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: magenta; font-size: large;"></span> and thus that day came upon me also .</div><div style="text-align: center;">and now I am free</div><div style="text-align: center;">I give thanks that I have lived long enough to feel it </div><div style="text-align: center;">and the thanks are thanks for every breath</div><div style="text-align: center;">there is no going back</div><div style="text-align: center;">upon my word</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj9EZrexp79qLl4RQi6Fuw4PZTeylp-Vpuc4WUYezpk_ivgG5pdX2_wxJkqRN8wMpKJ0siMDNj23klCCaHxTrk70S4u6zCYBx-HGzAftST9BUSH-eFv_SQ3KKkolvZzx4NleheM1bQQk3JC/s1600/11july2010+031.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj9EZrexp79qLl4RQi6Fuw4PZTeylp-Vpuc4WUYezpk_ivgG5pdX2_wxJkqRN8wMpKJ0siMDNj23klCCaHxTrk70S4u6zCYBx-HGzAftST9BUSH-eFv_SQ3KKkolvZzx4NleheM1bQQk3JC/s320/11july2010+031.JPG" width="320" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;">my word is </div><div style="text-align: center;">"namaste"</div><div style="text-align: center;">(my spirit within greets your spirit)</div><div style="text-align: center;">there is no master</div><div style="text-align: center;">of this spirit</div><div style="text-align: center;">only </div><div style="text-align: center;">love</div><div style="text-align: center;">courage</div><div style="text-align: center;">wisdom </div><div style="text-align: center;">compassion</div><div style="text-align: center;">guide</div></blockquote> "<span style="color: magenta; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"> Namaste</span> "<br />
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</div>Anne Russellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09211975737756493320noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6466671011011517719.post-85369454843682304292012-04-13T09:28:00.001-07:002012-04-17T11:59:36.736-07:00BE the ARTIST<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">Art is something we can all practice .<br />
When we practice we are being artists <br />
The more we practice the better artists we become.<br />
Everything can be an art if we practice .<br />
Artists are practitioners of awareness and mindfulness. <br />
when we have put in lots of practice we can be artists . <br />
There is an art to everything .<br />
and then there is just doing stuff .<br />
An artist is one who practices . <br />
whatever <br />
be it cooking ,gardening,mothering,caring,shopping,spending,entertaining, playng football,looking,seeing,dancing ,meditating etc.<br />
practice whatever you choose in life and become an artist . <br />
You will not fail . <br />
What are the qualities of the artist ? <br />
actually its not like that what it is is once you find your inner artist everything you do becomes an art . It is something that permeates your entire life . Choosing a medium like paint ink or clay is just that ..its just choosing to do that or rather to employ your artist to work through that medium but every rule of life ,of living as an enlightened human being applies also to your artwork . The artwork is really no more than a metaphor for life and living .<br />
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</div>Anne Russellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09211975737756493320noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6466671011011517719.post-51120787212796662642012-04-13T09:23:00.002-07:002013-06-29T02:50:33.847-07:00chocolate is still my friend and non toxic is best<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<a href="http://www.beingcontent.com/blog/2012/04/the-life-style-our-favourite-raw-chocolate-pudding/#.T4hSCHI8e3E.blogger">The Life & Style: Our Favourite Raw Chocolate ‘Pudding’</a><br />
just want to share this with you ... my loves<br />
may you be content, be well and fulfilled<br />
and if that link dosent work try this one<br />
<a href="http://thesimpleveganista.blogspot.co.uk/2013/04/raw-chocolate-pudding-3-ways.html">http://thesimpleveganista.blogspot.co.uk/2013/04/raw-chocolate-pudding-3-ways.html</a></div>
Anne Russellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09211975737756493320noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6466671011011517719.post-66262541381836347892012-03-19T09:25:00.001-07:002012-03-20T13:57:00.294-07:00FREE TO BE FREE<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgRGoNTkFM2UpJM1afMacKd6PPvamD-vIwjIZTbu7Dr-5piL6qDDXYjZCnNwzadL6VP41NX1eM0q8rGcZRce0ZjQ8NAZ5ZUeNp_K3c0K8vRsRMhj9Y64VL9CGS8qRw0VHDGomxaQqEKPSOZ/s1600/pics+for+web+burlesque.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgRGoNTkFM2UpJM1afMacKd6PPvamD-vIwjIZTbu7Dr-5piL6qDDXYjZCnNwzadL6VP41NX1eM0q8rGcZRce0ZjQ8NAZ5ZUeNp_K3c0K8vRsRMhj9Y64VL9CGS8qRw0VHDGomxaQqEKPSOZ/s320/pics+for+web+burlesque.jpg" width="278" /></a>It was in August 2010 when I was delighted to find my palette more interesting than the piece I was working on. Delighted because I knew I was moving on , that something new was on the horizon . <br />
I mean I really knew , knew that what I wanted was to have that unconscious uncontrolled little mess of pink and green with my name on it . This I would be proud of . <br />
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Does that seem strange ? Previously ,I had been working away making monumental detailed oil paintings of little tricky challenging bits plucked from nature and making ever such a good job of it and a fair amount of income too.But I did not like it ... I did not like the eye-strain or the brain- strain . It was art as a kind of tortuous display of observation skill . Almost a "showing off" of my" amazing" skills developed over years of assiduous practise but you know what ? anyone can do that with the will and practise !That's what I used to teach and I've seen it proved over and over again . Some people have more of a leaning towards it and a bit of a head start ,that would be the more left-brained ones (like myself) but believe me anyone and everyone can draw and paint what they see. <br />
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I needed to learn a little so went off to St. Ives ,the home of British Abstraction .. attended a two day workshop which got me going and I have not stopped since. I am liberated at last . Free to enjoy colour line and form for their own sake . Free to dance . I'm having a great time . <br />
<a href="http://thedivineworkshop.com/section508928.html">http://thedivineworkshop.com/section508928.html</a> to see work in progress ... and give me feedback ta .. love you all ... be happy !!<br />
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Currently I am preparing for a solo show in a hospital .Which is just the best thing possible for me right now. I Am going to do something sooooo cheerful and uplifting! I'm going to make 'em "smile all OVER"<br />
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</div>Anne Russellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09211975737756493320noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6466671011011517719.post-10971433346065479352012-01-24T14:10:00.002-08:002012-03-28T07:03:01.838-07:00Affordable art to live on under and over .<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">so I see this stall on Portobello Road . I am stunned . It is Marcus and his amazing collection of Kilims and Susanis <br />
.Im crazy about these beautiful handmade artifacts . Im hooked Im broke but I cannot resist .<br />
The first Kilim I ever bought was in a small village in Sparta and it came from "Asia Minor"I am absoloutly captivated by the magic of these carpets . <br />
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</div><div align="left">Marcus also sells Susani .... The work in these is just phenominal .</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjD33_rSrA1wQFu7DCc9FvijcHeR9qJ1-Fm4Y7vdCPPRmA2Of_ApusKKsfuBkKanm-3YU2wqI8skVl3UPKNMFDZ4ZSixFGC3NKBUZA5FctYFIUJlyLMwLghNOSRal4ORyJ2hLCy7wNQzIoN/s1600/17+Dec+2011+238.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjD33_rSrA1wQFu7DCc9FvijcHeR9qJ1-Fm4Y7vdCPPRmA2Of_ApusKKsfuBkKanm-3YU2wqI8skVl3UPKNMFDZ4ZSixFGC3NKBUZA5FctYFIUJlyLMwLghNOSRal4ORyJ2hLCy7wNQzIoN/s320/17+Dec+2011+238.JPG" width="320" /></a></div><div align="left"> Embroidered by hand they can be as large as 6 x6ft. </div><div align="left">Im going to cut what could be a long story about my passion and tell you this instead ...</div><div align="left"><br />
</div><div align="left">Rifat Ozbek has a new line these days "Yastik"( as you may or may not know) It is all cushions made from hand woven /embroidered fabrics . I was given a lovely little one made from "susani" that is filled with Lavender ...with a traditional middle eastern ticking on the back .... heavenly to touch look at and smell. Its tiny 6x6 inches and cost £65.00. It's got me <span style="color: #e06666;">smiling all over </span><span style="color: #666666;">at bed time</span> these days </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Meanwhile , back to reality , real prices anyway, and Marcus on Portobello Road ....... He's lovely , he sells lovely merchandise at earthling prices Visit him , enjoy his stock buy something , he,ll give you a good deal.I call him magic Marcus as I dont know how he manages to give such good value in kilims and susani </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">I'll give Marcus of Portobello Road (opposite Starbucks) the last word or rather "picture"</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br />
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<div style="text-align: center;"></div>Preparing for a major show in June . <br />
Studio and therefore home overwhelmed by canvases . <br />
I am engaged totally with abstraction ,colour ,line and form and<br />
am really only interested in experimenting with breaking up the surface and designing that space. <br />
It is a spiritual practice that involves a letting go of all thought and control having faith in the muse and the years of gathered skills, creating the work .<br />
This is a liberated time for me .<br />
Bless you all throughout this coming year and always ..... May your juices flow .....its a thirsty world thats on the turn . </div>Anne Russellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09211975737756493320noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6466671011011517719.post-76529726336935294422010-10-13T07:38:00.000-07:002010-11-22T07:43:56.632-08:00BIG BIRD BUILDS HOUSE<div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgn-Q0EGQUtC9vV5eTiGBEPXVeg4Q20U_M1arEme-YFc2-9TACak5jezhJ27KtHm4YH3-cjTMid84lmkvZ63sRUWsrJNurlVbQTaLbLt-oWGvO7AbQKXNujkwzszkLut-LdV98CCO2Ce52h/s1600/what+is+art+bauhaus.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" ex="true" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgn-Q0EGQUtC9vV5eTiGBEPXVeg4Q20U_M1arEme-YFc2-9TACak5jezhJ27KtHm4YH3-cjTMid84lmkvZ63sRUWsrJNurlVbQTaLbLt-oWGvO7AbQKXNujkwzszkLut-LdV98CCO2Ce52h/s200/what+is+art+bauhaus.jpg" width="160" /></a></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><br />
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I’m growing rather fond of the big bird on my block <br />
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</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;">I have become used to the fact that someone (an artist?)out there can see into my home.</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><br />
</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEggjQA0Xdx8LW8Bvp1_FFH_dW3i1CE4wsu13N6I01EVQej259EppnW_WcvNpwiHPdFCokosnPAeNMYAf0wx24T08VY42_kts3TnlKUVzB56Wsgzpvb73Hd5_x51Pa_qbHdcgcZdAYNgM-9U/s1600/Bauhaus.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; cssfloat: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" ex="true" height="149" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEggjQA0Xdx8LW8Bvp1_FFH_dW3i1CE4wsu13N6I01EVQej259EppnW_WcvNpwiHPdFCokosnPAeNMYAf0wx24T08VY42_kts3TnlKUVzB56Wsgzpvb73Hd5_x51Pa_qbHdcgcZdAYNgM-9U/s200/Bauhaus.jpg" width="200" /></a>I have also enjoyed immensely watching the Bauhaus type construction that is in progress .</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><br />
</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;">It is ,as a whole, a very pleasing aesthetic experience of the urban variety.</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><br />
</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;">The construction itself is so simple, it is a grid and a cube at that and that is rather pleasing in a rational sort of way and calls to mind Corbusier and Mondrian.</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><br />
</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;">Here are some pictures of what I am priviledged to enjoy . </div><div align="right" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><br />
</div><div align="center" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"></div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhJofdKT-hBWH-AaY6yAD5rt7vDoI_wFrLcWexE_iVpaHh2amwfmB0No51fu9wllJsPziUe3ZuG3-jLwUu0_lkcRV-KwFlnMDaejDdhyphenhyphenYGxedb-WMbIfY895bV3H4sPnbT4vXWTDirVBBvT/s1600/4Oct+w920+011.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" ex="true" height="150" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhJofdKT-hBWH-AaY6yAD5rt7vDoI_wFrLcWexE_iVpaHh2amwfmB0No51fu9wllJsPziUe3ZuG3-jLwUu0_lkcRV-KwFlnMDaejDdhyphenhyphenYGxedb-WMbIfY895bV3H4sPnbT4vXWTDirVBBvT/s200/4Oct+w920+011.JPG" width="200" /></a></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: left;">Combined with the crane it is reminiscent of Kandinsky and Klee</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br />
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</div>This sight (or should I say “site”) ticks quite few, aesthetic boxes for me. <br />
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<div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;">I also love the way the concrete changes colour and when it first dried out to a white (bloom) it was quite spectacular and ticked a favourite aesthetic box for me. </div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><br />
</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;">Looking and seeing is such a joy and in the city we have to look quite hard for purity and essence of form.</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"> . </div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;">Ok so it is design that Im seeing but that crane driver is definitely an artist .</div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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I like this I hope you do too . It makes me <span style="color: #ff6666;">SMILE ALL OVER .</span><br />
Its a bit of poetry and some art .... of film making and the art of living (philosophy)<br />
all my favoutites !!!! <br />
Soon I"ll have something worth writing about .Anne Russellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09211975737756493320noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6466671011011517719.post-20158598998617730072010-08-10T04:28:00.000-07:002011-01-14T04:37:02.808-08:00Towards Abstraction :St. Ives Cornwall 2010<a href="http://goo.gl/photos/lSIFehmDxH" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400" src="http://lh5.ggpht.com/_b5cNezppmiM/TTA_MZTcc0E/AAAAAAAAA6U/fZ9LQlEoLAs/s160-c/TowardsAbstractionStIvesCornwall2010.jpg" width="400" /></a><br />
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I am on the move ..... towards abstraction....... watch this space <br />
I may be some timeAnne Russellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09211975737756493320noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6466671011011517719.post-39278981109946257502010-06-03T05:51:00.000-07:002017-05-08T08:37:49.609-07:00DONT FIT WONT FIT<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Marylin Monroe in THE MISFITS (1961)<br />
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I have been planninga to visit India for a couple of years now ... to find a place where I can spend the winter: that’s one reason..physical comfort.<br />
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Above and beyond the physical, I feel I can no and longer live comfortably in this disgraceful and disgraced society.<br />
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Yes I am very upset about the BP oil spillage it has just pushed me over an edge and given me , like many others a very loud wake-up call.<br />
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I'm not saying that I cant live here ,in this location although that is debatable , there is much to commend London and above all the people are by and large tolerant which is saying a lot. <br />
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Having lived in the depths of the English countryside in the wilderness that is Dartmoor for five years or so , the experience of the divine that I had there was awesome , it was an idyll , but the people , I found to be very disconnected from the outside ,”outsiders” and each other ,rather bigoted in their views and lacking in any desire to connect . They were very materialistic, fought over literally millimetres of land and all sought to compete to have more “stuff” than the other.<br />
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Church attendance was down to an average of five per service over a year and that includes Xmas etc. where I was. <br />
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Whilst farmers traditionally help each other out with harvesting etc it was reciprocal and whilst that’s no bad thing it’s not giving that’s just a “deal”.<br />
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I gave all I could of my time skills joy running projects etc... and that’s another thing ... they seemed to think that all incomers were wealthy !!<br />
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India is still steeped in the religious belief and practice of "oneness" of connectedness the Vedic notion that there is no “other”<br />
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I have also been dreaming all my life of living in a morally and ergo, ecologically, sustainable community.<br />
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The ashram beckons .<br />
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I know it is a cop-out in many ways but truly I am tired of compromising my own better judgement as I conform and fit into modern western culture. (which, though I say so myself, I make a fairly good job of, but it is taking its toll. I long to move on to develop, to grow .I feel I have outgrown this western world or that perhaps it has outgrown me and would enloy life on a more human local scale .<br />
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Perhaps, I am thinking “at least half the year away living a wholesome contemplative life of spiritual devotion will see me through six months of mammon” <br />
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Yes I am deeply and tiresomely (to myself at least) sensitive to humanities destructive tendencies. For every wonderful human-being who has transcended his or her wretched ego there seem to be at least two or three who are caught up in the drama of "who they are" or at least who and what they believe they are. <br />
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Caught up in their desire for status , for power over others and dominion over the natural world and its resources .Yes I have been deeply saddened by the current oil leakage I have wept tears of frustration and anger. <br />
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Here I am speaking my MIND ,the mind of emotions ... I can and do rise above this mind and exercise my intellectual ,contemplative mind that does not have any preference for the secular or religious ,East or West, here or there,<br />
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But emotions arise have to be embraced processed and dealt with and the fact is I am angry and sad. <br />
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I guess this is my little drama. <br />
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My contemplative mind, the drama to one side, requires that I weigh up the environmental pros and cons of long-haul flight don’t I? ..........don't <span style="color: orange; font-size: x-large;"> WE <span style="color: #666666; font-size: small;">all</span>?</span><br />
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to watch Marylin Monroe in a clip from THE MISFITS <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BvGF0YhPSZg">click here</a> I first saw this film as a very young person Enjoythe clip enjoy living whetever you are and lets all get <span style="color: magenta; font-size: x-large;">sensitive </span></div>
Anne Russellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09211975737756493320noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6466671011011517719.post-74357204733825726632010-04-22T11:20:00.000-07:002010-05-16T05:26:21.773-07:00WIDER THAN THE SKY<div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: left;">John Lennon is attributed with having said</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"></div><blockquote></blockquote><br />
<div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;">“ <span style="font-size: large;">Reality leaves a lot to the <span style="color: orange;">imagination</span>"</span><br />
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which could also read:</div></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"></div><blockquote></blockquote><div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;">“reality <em><strong><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #ff6600;">gives</span> </span></strong></em>a lot to the <span style="color: orange; font-size: large;">imagination</span>”<br />
</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;">I am in bed a lot these days and very comfortable.</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;">I lie in my bed and gaze for hours out into the tree-top that graces the view from my window.</div></div></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"></div><div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;">Quite soon, I become the tree then after quite a while,I am a wounded bird; <br />
still, alone, healing in a downy nest. </div></div><div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;">Having become the bird ,it is not long before I am flying ,enjoying the freedom of the sky . </div></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"></div><div></div><div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;">Looking down I can see the tree now fully in leaf and I can only <span style="color: #ff6600;">imagine</span> the comfort of the nest that awaits my <span style="color: #ff6666;">joyful</span> return to rest.<br />
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</div></div></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div>SOME QUOTES ON THE TOPIC OF <span style="color: #ff6600;">IMAGINATION</span></div>“The world is but a canvas to the <span style="color: #ff6600;">imagination</span>” Henry David Thoreau <br />
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“Probably the difference between man and the monkeys is that the monkeys are merely bored, while man has boredom plus <span style="color: #ff6600;">imagination</span>” Lin Yutang “<br />
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</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;">It’s not what you look at that matters it’s what you <span style="color: #ff6600;">see</span>” </div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><br />
</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;">“<span style="color: #ff6600;">Imagination</span> is the living power and prime agent of all human perception” Coleridge <br />
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjVlCv7XoyqVz9MaWeURPDBTWFaE0Lye9GgY0lt7vhbbZ9BIYw4-eDuvYO5dZCRKpmNE9c7DU4lS0A_nqN3-2VK5juaXKOfx5dOiHpr9Rc6lYXHBZQuz5BeztkslPTPJeteat3kIHId-XV3/s1600/edited1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; cssfloat: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="color: cyan;"></span></a><span style="color: #3d85c6;">“The brain </span><span style="color: #3d85c6;">is wider than the sky</span><span style="color: #3d85c6;"> - For</span><span style="color: #3d85c6;"> put them side by side- </span><span style="color: #3d85c6;">The one the other will contain -with ease </span><br />
<span style="color: #3d85c6;"> Emily Dickenson</span> </div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: orange; font-size: x-large;"> </span><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiT3bJHKKFDlkMiDCbgko7_QhLw8U_VoDPy_42Oy-rO8_RgcNsyV_5gVkDYb9cukbDuDHNhvfkoj7HyH0xfPWeQopf9CSWY34nHTbd6EQDwBrc0kFd8QhGhQgHXcO1Vj7L2AthPNwD-8Aqd/s1600/1st+may+2010+016.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="150" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiT3bJHKKFDlkMiDCbgko7_QhLw8U_VoDPy_42Oy-rO8_RgcNsyV_5gVkDYb9cukbDuDHNhvfkoj7HyH0xfPWeQopf9CSWY34nHTbd6EQDwBrc0kFd8QhGhQgHXcO1Vj7L2AthPNwD-8Aqd/s200/1st+may+2010+016.jpg" tt="true" width="200" /></a></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #3d85c6; font-size: x-large;">IMAGINE</span></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #674ea7; font-size: x-large;">IMAGINE</span></div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cc0000; font-size: x-large;">IMAGINE</span></div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: orange; font-size: x-large;">IMAGINE</span></div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: yellow; font-size: x-large;">IMAGINE</span></div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #b6d7a8; font-size: x-large;">IMAGINE</span></div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="color: #9fc5e8;">IMAGINE</span><span style="color: orange;"></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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