Category: Creativity
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Day 304 • Something Beautiful 2022-23: A Villa Autumn
Something Beautiful is the resurrection of a 2014 initiative to find a visual feast for each day of the year. That I have been gone for nearly four months speaks volumes about life at the fake Italian villa in Mazomanie. There have been two commissions, garden, food preservation, some brick building, and making three rugs…
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Day 303 • Something Beautiful 2022-23: Cather and Chimney Rock
Something Beautiful is the resurrection of a 2014 initiative to find a visual feast for each day of the year. In the midst of mosaic and rug projects, I spend long stretches doing repetitive work that doesn’t require my creative attention. More and more, I’ve taken to listening to Audible books. I just finished listening…
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Day 302 • Something Beautiful 2022-23: The Johannesburg Jacarandas
Something Beautiful is the resurrection of a 2014 initiative to find a visual feast for each day of the year. In the 2014, I “discovered” and posted a photo of jacaranda trees. Until then, I thought the Eastern Redbud was the planet’s most intensely riveting display of fuscia and lavender. But then I saw images…
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Day 301 • Something Beautiful 2022-23: The White Japanese Cherry
Something Beautiful is the resurrection of a 2014 initiative to find a visual feast for each day of the year. Thanks to Charlene Maloney for posting this spectacular image on Facebook. Most of us think of pale pink blossoms when conjuring Japanese cherry blossoms. Here is the snow queen herself. All the gorgeous proportions of…
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Day 300 • Something Beautiful 2022-23: The Apostle Archipelago
Something Beautiful is the resurrection of a 2014 initiative to find a visual feast for each day of the year. Last weekend’s trip to the Bayfield, WI area included a trip on the ferry from Bayfield to Madeline Island, one of the Apostle Archipelago in southern Lake Superior. Phenomenal rock formations provide portals framing other…
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Day 289 • Something Beautiful 2022-23: The art of Tina Fung Holder
Something Beautiful is the resurrection of a 2014 initiative to find a visual feast for each day of the year. Last week at the Variations Fiber Arts Show in Washburn, Wisconsin, I met Tina Fung Holder. Born in Guyana, she spent many years in Chicago and then found her way to Northern, Wisconsin where she…
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Day 289 • Something Beautiful 2022-23: Have you ever seen a dream walking?
Something Beautiful is the resurrection of a 2014 initiative to find a visual feast for each day of the year. Connecting Loose Threads The power of music is obvious to me, but sometimes in unexpected ways— like this morning when thinking about how to title this post. But before I travel too far down that…
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Day 288 • Something Beautiful 2022-23: Luminous!
Something Beautiful is the resurrection of a 2014 initiative to find a visual feast for each day of the year. The thing about enduring a Wisconsin winter is the childlike delirium of seeing color again. Seeing growth —seeing people outside. Seeing people smile. Those who see color the year round may be a bit blase…
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Day 287 • Something Beautiful 2022-23: Keoni’s Wood Reimaginings
Something Beautiful is the resurrection of a 2014 initiative to find a visual feast for each day of the year. At long last, I made it to the Smithsonian Craft Show in Washington, DC last weekend. A fellow artist and good friend in tow, life does not get much better than spending two days surrounded…