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Lexiconophilia
Confessional: It’s been over two years since I last made a blogpost. I can’t say why I haven’t posted other than…Life. Life hasn’t entirely interrupted my creative process though. Back a couple of years ago, I asked for and received a book called “Dictionary of the Strange, Curious and Lovely” by Robin Devoe as a holiday gift.…
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Face
We are imperfect beings. We wear our existence on our faces. Like the Japanese philosophy of wabi-sabi, kintsugi embraces those broken and flawed parts of ourselves and repairs it with gold. This image is of my beloved and beautiful son whose face has grown lonely and searching in recent years. He hasn’t yet been able to accept the things he cannot change but he is finding the courage to accept…
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Barnyard Summer
Generally, summer is not my most productive time. I have lots of ideas and projects but once that beautiful weather takes hold, I seem to lose interest in anything that keeps me indoors. But, this past spring, I took part in an local event called “Sheep on Show”. Artists and townsfolk were invited to paint a plywood cutout of sheep that would be placed around town. No one knew exactly what to…
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The Fall of 2020
The Fall of 2020
Even as we turn the corner into the final lap of this strange year, the anxiety is still very high. With the election coming up and the virus coming in for another round of COVID-19 cases, my nighttime dreams reflect the fears that I manage to avoid during the daytime.
Despite this, I have continued to produce artwork, I created a new website on my own; janicefried.com, I’ve managed to stay…
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The Virtues of a Virtual Life One thing I can say for this Corona virus is that it has brought out such inventiveness, generosity and inspiration from the world as we all struggle with how to get through the fear and isolation of this thing.
20/20 Vision
As the heavy brocade curtain opens on this new year, I feel urged to write a new blogpost, but do I focus on the past year or the incoming year?
This new year is one that purports perfect vision by its numerical date although it’s already starting to skew off to an optical illusion that even my new pair of glasses can’t adjust to…both personally and globally.
Last year was hard but I spent it…
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Little Squares of Joy
Little Squares of Joy
I have always had a tendency towards pareidolia, which is when you see faces in inanimate things. One of my favorite things to do when I am feeling stuck creatively is to drop ink or watercolor on wet paper and find images within. Another creative game I play is when I am a passenger in a moving car, I allow my pen to sit loosely in my opposite hand and see how the pen interprets the drive into…
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Que será será
I try not to engage in woe is me nor do I raise my fists to the heavens in anger.
People say I am strong but I just try to remain steady by going about my life one day at a time. Sometimes one hour at a time.
I leave it in the hands of the mighty Que será será…whatever will be will be.
Call it my version of a power greater than myself.
It is very hard to watch people you love keep falling down;…
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Tikkun Olam
Tikkun Olam means to repair the world and 2017 felt like we were coming apart at the seams.
As trying as this year has been both personally and globally I have to believe there is still a chance for a more lasting repair…. one stitch at a time.
Peace and strength and love, good health and well being to all of you for the new year.
Janice Fried ©2017
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Happy Halloween 2017
“Is all that we see or seem
But a dream within a dream?”
Edgar A. Poe 1849
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March 25th, 1911
Today marks the 106th anniversary of The Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire.
146 people lost their lives that day…most of them young, hardworking, Jewish and Italian immigrant women.
Many of them were named “Rose”.
This image was created in their memory.
©Janice Fried 2017 In Memory of The Roses
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Letting Go of Fear
Letting Go of Fear
More and more I am seeing how often fear motivates our actions.Fear of change, fear of failure, fear of the unknown, fear of strangers, fear of success, fear of not fitting in, fear of finding out who we really are.
Fear can stop us in our tracks and lead us to inertia. It can also cause us to make all kinds of excuses as well as making certain decisions based around those fears.
This election…
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Thirty-Six
One of the local galleries where I occasionally show my work is called Nails in the Wall. It is in a lovely church and the themes for the shows are spiritually focused. The current show that I’m in is called “Saints Among Us.” For this show I was asked to speak about my piece and so I thought I’d reprint some of my talk here:
I was intrigued by the idea of visually representing “Saints Among Us”…
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The Original Dream
To be a children’s book illustrator was my original dream. It was the Crayola® of the profession as far as I was concerned.
When it came time for me to gather up my portfolio after art school and begin the journey on my yellow brick road to children’s book stardom, I came up against the comment that my work was “ too sophisticated for children’s books”. This comment occurred more than once and…
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Outside In
I don’t do a lot of landscapes but once in awhile cool greens and blue skies without a person in sight feel very appealing. I am currently in a local show of artwork inspired by nature called “Outside In”
I had some older pieces that I could have submitted for this show but I wanted to do something new.
So here is “Bluebird” along with a few other nature inspired images.
Happy Summer!
“Bluebird”…
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The Last Gasp of The Winter of Confusion
The Last Gasp of The Winter of Confusion
This has been the strangest winter I can ever remember. The cherry blossoms were blooming in December and in January we had 30” of snow. The natural world seemed turned upside down so I drew this image I call Thallo in Winter.
Thallo is the Greek goddess of Spring who should be arriving officially on March 2oth carrying buds and blossoms.
©Janice Fried 2016
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A sweet star for today.