“Robert Bly captures the importance of the blending of feeling and seeing when he says: ‘If we want to create art we have to stitch together the inner world and the outer world. ... what we are feeling and what we are seeing have to, in some way, merge together into one, unified whole’. ... it is found in what William Gass calls the secret kinesis of things,” Stephen Harrod Buhner, from Ensouling Language: The Art of Nonfiction and the Writer’s Life. I appreciate all of the deep work of #StephenHarrodBuhner , he is a master of herbalism, spirits of plants, and energy. Merriam-Webster defines kinesis as a movement that lacks directional orientation and depends upon the intensity of stimulation. #energyexchangeisreal #natureandthings #tousandfromus #changingourstatesofawareness #whenweexperiencetheunknown - we can open to new states. #art #abstractart #artandlivingenergy #alchemy This is why I show my raw energy travel canvas work, I can create new finished studio versions in any size or medium, but it is the raw experience of energy exchange and capture that they begin with. First image, studio painting, “Wings from the Ground”, 36”H x 52”W, second image the #abstracttravelpainting source, oil on primed cut canvas, painted in #Texas. https://www.instagram.com/p/BuG-343hHgA/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=7bq1nf4yli3z