Each day is a meditation on the beauty and wonder that surround us. Most of all, it's about love.
Suddenly there are swans
Suddenly
there are swans
by the roadside
everywhere.
Like operagoers
in McDonalds
at the rest stop
eating sundaes.
I was looking through the work I'd created the past few weeks, wondering what to share with you today. Much of it was rather heavy. A lot of death and such. I don't feel like sending something about death today, so here's this. It's a bit different and I'm wondering what you think.
A couple of weeks ago we were driving from Haliburton, where we live, to Toronto, and indeed there were a lot of swans in the soggy fields. They had a certain out-of-place elegance to them.
It was only when I started to think of the illustration that I saw that swans could indeed look like the McDonalds logo. The realization made me smile.
Snubsta
Each day is a meditation on the beauty and wonder that surround us. Most of all, it's about love.
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Stumbling through todaywaiting to allow the worldto knock me senseless with awe. In my opinion, the key word in this piece is "allow". Can we open our hearts enough to allow it in? My 2023 Black Friday Sale starts NOW! Save 25% on new artwork this week with coupon code BF2023 at checkout. Shop here.
Be so stillyou hearthe beech leavestell storiesof their lifeclinging in death. Sometimes when I'm out for a walk on a winter's day, it's so still I can hear the snow squeak. So when there's a breeze and the beech leaves rustle, it's a rude shock. The beech trees around here keep their dead, bronzed leaves all winter. I don't know why they do that, but they're a reminder that nature is beautiful, even in death. Indeed, perhaps for nature, death is beautiful too. My 2023 Black Friday Sale...