Aug 10, 2022
I did some alfresco painting. It’ll brighten the winter days and remind me of flowers long gone
acrylics on wood by J.J.
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I did some alfresco painting. It’ll brighten the winter days and remind me of flowers long gone
acrylics on wood by J.J.
Ever since I was a child, I wanted to be a nature poet — it’s just that what I meant by “nature” included everything from quarks to exoplanets to water bears and neurons. Science and art both seem to be throwing buckets of light into the dark corners of existence, and I was enthralled. It didn’t make sense that we would be separating science and art, or that we would be separating nature and human nature. It seemed like we should be taking the universe literally — as one verse.
- Diane Ackerman
watercolor by J.J.(image: artist’s own)
Sacred space and sacred time and something joyous to do is all we need. Almost anything then becomes a continuous and increasing joy.
- Joseph Campbell
Wild Primrose - Watercolor sketch by J.J. (reference: artist’s own)
A city is a language, a repository of possibilities, and walking is the act of speaking that language, of selecting from those possibilities. Just as language limits what can be said, architecture limits where one can walk, but the walker invents other ways to go.
- Rebecca Solnit (Wanderlust: A History of Walking)
from J.J.’s sketchbook diary (image sources: Clarissa Tanton and Maia Flare)
“It rained for a short time while I was running, but it was a cooling rain that felt good.” ― Haruki Murakami (What I Talk About When I Talk About Running)
from J.J.’s sketchbook
“The point about Snow White is that you can keep fighting. The point about Snow White is that even when those who are meant to love you put you in an intolerable situation, you can run away, you can make friends, you can cope. And that message – that even when all is at its darkest, you can think your way out of trouble – is huge.”
- Neil Gaiman
“Surviving isn’t around us, but in us.”
― Shannon L. Alder
from J.J.’s sketchbook (after an illustration by R.C. Fresson)
“I want to paint the way a bird sings.”
- Claude Monet
drawing by J.J. (image source: artist’s own)