The great writers keep writing about the cold dark place within, the water under a frozen lake or the secluded, camouflaged hole. The light they shine on this hole, this pit, helps us cut away or step around the brush and brambles; then we can dance around the rim of the abyss, holler into it, measure it, throw rocks in it, and still not fall in. It can no longer swallow us up. And we can get on with things. Anne Lamott

Accidental Joy Нечаянная радость

Pillowscape

When you love something like reading—or drawing or music or nature—it surrounds you with a sense of connection to something great. If you are lucky enough to know this, then your search for meaning involves whatever that Something is. It’s an alchemical blend of affinity and focus that takes us to a place that feels as close as we ever get to ‘home.’ It’s like pulling into our own train station after a long trip—joy, relief, pleasant exhaustion... If a writer or artist creates from a place of truth and spirit and generosity, then I may be able to enter and ride this person’s train back to my own station. Anne Lamott

A Glimpse

At Alberto's

Rooted and Floating

Fallen Print

Before They Discovered Their Differences

Exploration in a Round Realm

Gray Wall through Rose-Colored Glasses

Stream Dreams

Painting It Red

Port of San Francisco

The Inside Blue

April

April is the cruelest month, breeding 
Lilacs out of the dead land, mixing  

Memory and desire, stirring 
Dull roots with spring rain.
T.S.Eliot

Upcoming Show at De Young

Two of my images from the series "The Way of the Circle" have been selected for the 18th Annual New Generations Student Showcase exhibit at De Young Museum in San Francisco. The theme this year is Expand. It is a 3 day show and the dates are:

April 11-13, 2014

The reception is a part of Friday Nights at the de Young, 
April 11, 6–8:45 pm
Performance, film and visual art on display with DJ music

Location: De Young Museum, at 50 Hagiwara Tea Garden Drive in the heart of San Francisco's Golden Gate Park.

For more information, please visit: http://deyoung.famsf.org/calendar/friday-nights-de-young-expand-18th-annual-new-generations-student-showcase