braided vision, originally uploaded by bbmarie.

I can’t see
I can’t see what to do next and I am stuck
I try to write a song but quite ’cause it’s too hard
I read out loud about Abraham Lincoln and his life but it is
too tall.
I begin to clean the kitchen
I start some pastry dough and set it aside to rest
I check email and read an inspiring passage
from a friend
I can’t see
the way I used to
it doesn’t work
it used to work but not anymore
I see different now
I make my kids mad without meaning to
I can’t hear my life partner
because my ears are stuffed with wax
I can’t see
I need a new way because the old
way stopped working

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good to go…, originally uploaded by sandig.urbanspace.

The wind is blowing hard against the carriage house this morning. The wood stove is full of dry cherry wood and brilliant flame fighting back the cold. I have allready begun painting into the “musical expression” painting. The painting moves ahead very slowly, brushing in thin layers of oil color with tiny sable brushes. The sable comes from the upper reaches of Russia from these rodents that have developed beautiful thick fur coats to keep them alive living in some of the harshest winter climate in the world. Their fur make the best brushes and they are made one at a time by the careful hands of craftsmen. These brushes enable my artistic reach on a cold blustery winter morining in Michigan.

I am so thankful for every day I get to continue painting. It makes my life so full of beauty, mystery and sweet sadness. Everything is potential inspiration for the next creative journey. The little bits and pieces of our strange life that keep us connected to the music of the spheres, the dance of unseen giants, and the tumbling of noisy children.

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the double rose project drawing, originally uploaded by bbmarie.

This is a working drawing for a new painting that has the working title of The Double Rose Project. The painting is large for me. 3′x 4′ and will be my first painting to sell for $50,000.00

I have a twisted together combination of excitement and determination regarding this piece that is something I have never before experienced with this kind of potency.

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a musical expression, originally uploaded by bbmarie.

This in a new drawing in a series I am currently working on of ukulele girls. I really like those bathing suites from the 40s and early 50s and I don’t know why. When a musician is performing a place in the heavenlies opens up. People hearing can be nourished into their souls.
I am talking about soul music. I am talking about mystical breast feeding.

This is graphite on heavy printmaking paper. I am using a 1949 Sears catologue for reference material. Women in girdles to follow.

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