Wired & Patched Stories

Is reality is a mindset? The re-enchantment of life is a process and art can begin meaningful conversations that can light up the soul with delight and possibility. ~rhiah

[rhiah]

Wired & Patched Studios

Bound for Glory

[rhiah]

This was our presentation at the KWAG for Arts Pay. Cheryl Ives, my creative partner from The Bright Spot in Waterloo, is speaking.

[rhiah]

Take your broken heart and make it into art

Carrie Fisher

[rhiah]

New digital illustration by C.D.Good.

[rhiah]

A new strange image that makes me smile.

[rhiah]

Wired & Patched Studios

Bound for Glory

[rhiah]

The Shawarma Star in Kitchener, Ontario challenged me to paint a styrofoam form to look like a rack of chicken Shawarma.

[rhiah]

Is Art a Drain on the System? https://www.therecord.com/opinion-story/8572197-if-you-want-art-you-need-to-pay-the-artists/ It is not that cultural creatives do not have work ethic or focus. It is just a different kind. It is a different sort of wealth they often value and when the idea comes, they are helpless to its urgent insistent ways or they become unwell. When I first got back to this area (2012) from the west coast it was jarring to see musicians depicted as lazy, unmotivated takers in well-attended plays, and business people reflecting that artists always had their hand out looking for handouts. It was upsetting to see the unsustainable low prices of original work and brilliant painters serving coffee. When on the same planet, in San Deigo original paintings were kept as a private investment for the artist and prints with a few original markings were sold. In New York where I had worked as a gallery intern, there were rooms stacked with investment art. Paintings sold for $40,000. That was then, this is now. The clock has ticked on. Now anyone can copy a painting with cheap paint and cheap wine. The internet put us on a fast speed into the collective mind. Creating original content/innovation that is nourishing to the soul, designing experiences to restore human dignity and heart is work. Hard work. Might it not be about making less STUFF tho? What we are up against is something not really met yet in the story of humanity. It is more about "value" than "money". More about unseen worlds than visible. More about making the intangible tangible. More about respect. More about the main elements of our shared design of reality. Earth, Air, Water, Earth. and how things relate rather than what is relating.

[rhiah]

A first year Conestoga college Journalist covered my work last weekend.

[rhiah]

A digital edit of a drawing made for a fundraiser to help the families of the "Missing and Murdered Women" from the Picton Farm.

[rhiah]

I started a course at Georgina Art Gallery beside Lake Simcoe. It is put on by the York Arts Council in Toronto. The business I am putting through is a digital anthology about restorative practices, arts, business and enviroment with a foundation of science and faith. The image is one of the first mini-sculptures made with the special paper spinning technique I have worked on over the last 20 years.

[rhiah]

This is the advertistment in the recent Alternatives Journal www.ajmag.ca for The Casheenas made in a process developed with Laura Lee Roberts from Fair Feathered Friends and myself. See www.facebook.com/casheenas

[rhiah]

Thinking about fibre, video and projections...

[rhiah]

“The world is in crisis. It needs people who have the skill to combine inner power with outer action. Inner power comes from self mastery, observing and controlling the ego, and deepening integrity through a regular practice of reflection or meditation.” ― Scilla Elworthy, Pioneering the Possible: Awakened Leadership for a World That Works

[rhiah]

Start of a new year and I feel unstoppable.

[rhiah]

Purchase your hardcopy that is lovingly hand bound at our Rhiahlity Etsy Store. https://www.etsy.com/ca/listing/594651093/when-ick-met-spark-art-book?ref=shop_home_feat_2

[rhiah]