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Headless doll with transformer covers. 2015

Small skull on glass. 2015

Broken bottle necks. 2015

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One

The rhythms of your heart

now beat as mine

more than ever

we are

one

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The Red House in November

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Full Moon Over Sandy The eerie beauty of the full moon shining through the clouds of Hurricane Sandy. October 29, 2012.

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Nice pear A shapely pear, taken in low light, just before it was devoured.

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Moth

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Fish litter

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9/11 Tower.

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Creating Rhythm Series: Art and Evolution

Creating Rhythm Series: Art and Evolution

Ancient evidence of the creative process has been perfectly preserved in the dark recesses of caves throughout the world. Spared from the ordinary erosion of time, parietal art (rock art) provides us with some of the oldest and finest records of the human creative impulse. The images capture the experiences of our ancestors and reflect their internal state, as well as their external environment.

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More Than I Was Looking For

More Than I Was Looking For

In order to fully explore the unusual experience I had in the river, I chose to integrate it into my thesis topic. It needed to be relevant to the field of art therapy, so I first looked at the relationship between the creative process and altered states of consciousness. This was easily established, but the source of its ability to affect consciousness was more elusive.

What causes these shifts…

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Playing Both Sides of the Room

Playing Both Sides of the Room

…trying to resolve a gouache painting I thought I’d finished years ago, on one side of the room, matting giclée prints on the other.

Poor lighting.

A useful tool.

Diane K. Wald, 2010 Rosa Umbilicus Giclée on watercolor paper

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Weed Killer Kills More Than Weeds. #killweedkiller #weedsarebeautiful #savethebees Please share widely.

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Out of the Blue

Out of the Blue. #truthseeker #reasonvsintuition.

Diane Wald, 2014 Water Pattern in Blues Digitally altered photograph

It happened out of the blue. Until that moment in the river, I had no history with transcendental matters. Growing up in a devoutly atheist family, my brain wasn’t wired for god, prophets, or saints. We never opened bibles, read testaments, or studied torahs. Rational thought ruled. Science would prove everything that was true;…

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Aha in the Pemigewasset

Aha in the Pemigewasset

The Pemigewasset is an active river that runs through the White Mountains of New Hampshire. From where I stood on the bank, the water was strewn with boulders. I spied one to settle on, and scrambled to it—crab style—hands and feet grasping at rocks along the way.

Pemigewasset River, 2006

It was late afternoon and the sun’s energy was waning, but the boulder had captured its heat and wouldn’t it…

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Skeletons In My Closet

Skeletons In My Closet

Skeletons from my closet. 2014.

In the middle of winter, I got inspired to restore order to a dark and densely packed closet. During the excavation, I uncovered skeletons I didn’t know I had. These were not the kind of skeletons that should be left in a closet.

The first one to turn up, was a mouse, headless and hollow, with a frail shell of skin tented over small, dry bones. Before I realized…

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Florence Cane and The Artist In Each Of Us

  “The body is the instrument through which the creative process occurs”.

As a new art teacher, I…

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The Surface of Water

Reflections of earth, sky and water gather and dance on the surface of water like flames in a…

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