Being an artist is something you don’t decide to become, but rather discover you are one. Creativity only comes alive when it lives in us and we live it out in life. What is an artist? Someone who tries to save the world and themselves with no superpowers other than their stories.
– Kwabena Feli
We find ourselves listening to the stars in the night sky and the sun and the moon, to the rivers and the valleys, to the forests and creeks and lakes that surround us, to the meadows and the wildflowers, to the rich conversations, to the newly born fawns, songbirds, and hummingbirds and to their exotic music especially while sitting on our porch in the St. Croix River Valley.
Read MoreAt the heart of opposition or the tension being held, there is something else or new birthing. The notion of balance is really powerful, because balance is a providential thing that allows something new to emerge from the depths of the tension of crisis and contradiction.
Read MoreIf we can bring ourselves into the present from the past and take notice, our collective voices can bear witness to the Earth’s changing image and respond more truthfully to her evolving song of life.
Read MoreOur series of paintings titled, Seeds of Time, explore how we fit into the Earth’s history. We wonder if our conception of time affects the way we think and behave as we process the mysterious flexibility of time.
Read MoreWe are unable to summarize this crazy year into a paragraph you can stand to read. Instead we’d like to send a big ol’ thank you note.
Read MoreWe have found that our art can amplify the sacred and challenge the status quo. The arts help us to hear above the cacophony amid our noisy and chaotic world.
Read MoreNovember is the time of the year in the northern hemisphere when we begin to think about the coming of winter, of the dark.
Read MoreWe recognize that creativity also can be used in radically dangerous ways, but when we imagine healing between us, and between nations, we see art as a visual language that helps transform divergence into dialogue.
Read MoreI now stand at a threshold I would not have chosen, but it is indeed a boundary that I will need to cross and will move into uncharted territory. The boundary I’m crossing is the river of cancer, a rare cancer called neuroendocrine tumors.
Read MoreWe are held together by love. It would be good for our spirit to be especially vigilant when it comes to showing love and respect for one another.
Read MoreThe traditional Japanese calendar is split into 72 different seasons a year.
Read MoreOf all the paths you take in life, make sure a few of them are dirt. – JOHN MUIR
Read MoreOn our recent saunter, exploring The Lost Forty, we discovered trees that tower a hundred feet above the forest floor – a ceiling as high as in prehistory and a rare site in today’s world.
Read MoreMay this tree be a symbol of our hope and a remembrance of the sacredness of all life.
Read MoreWe are in the beginning stages of a new project that chronicles the seasonal changes from snowy days to the rebirth of the earth in spring and into the color palette of autumn.
Read MoreWe might even learn that along other paths, literal and analogous, across other parts of the world, where our discordant imprint on the earth is entirely intentional, the consequences of our presence are also entirely ours to amend, even if only one step at a time.
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