Category Archives: Ottawa Culture

doors

what is on the other side of them?

 

opportunity!

she hopes loudly to the universe

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sparkle

the snaps don’t show

 in the sunshine today

my path home sparkled

chose to see it that way

i like that

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…and so you don’t think i am completely off my rocker: “cement is primarily made up of calcium carbonite, some of which is in crystalline form and can reflect light. Smaller chunks regularly end up in cement. After being ground and heated these crystals are evenly dispersed, making the cement sparkle”.


long walks

…in the rain

…down the tissue aisle

feeling quiet

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community

the world is a town where the empress people are excluded

 

very pleased to see

my submission

to Michael Harfords’s The World is a Town

arrived and included

community feels good

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finger painting

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modesty

feeling modest

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thirteen

simple

neutral

orange

golden

heARTbeatgal’s contribution for To The Power of N

thirteen squares of beautiful paper

from my local vietnamese haberdashery

the artist, Joel Lambeth, is seeking thirteen identical bits of “something”

for inclusion in the artists’ materials of his collaborative collage project

how could i not collaborate?

they are en route to australia now, along with my good vibes

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painter

it may only be recently that i call myself artist first, after mother

more than three years now that i have been compelled to create

but it was always quietly present

i remember well the feeling painting this watercolour portrait of my mother

memory fails me, but this was a decade or so ago

it was the same deeply satisfying creative bliss i tap into regularly now

glimpses of what i now know will forever be with me

i thank the spirits for painting

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the world is a town…

thanks again to the interwebs

i found another member of my tribe

a collaborative collagist

my piece for

Michael Harford’s “The World is a Town”

sticking it in the post today!

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happy mom

i love my kids

happy happy to all the moms!