Detachment involves present-moment living – living in the here and now.
We allow life to happen instead of forcing and trying to control it.
We relinquish regrets over the past and fears about the future.
We make the most of each day.
Melody Beattie
original painting – private collection – Clarksburg, WV – USA • “The Slip”
• watercolor, wax, ricepaper and then quilted! • 36″H x 36″W • © Lisa Rivas
An old thing becomes new if you detach it from what usually surrounds it. ~Robert Bresson
…I desired some
cut flowers
for this very
“cool vase!”
…and let me
tell you right now
I have all these
“flowers!”
…so I checked
every single
“bloom”
in the
“garden!”
…then I carefully
snipped and cut
just a few selected
“petals!”
Lisa Rivas © 2008 • print on ricepaper • (partial view) “Flowering Genes Map”
I then arranged and stylized these “beauties” into this fun display of blooms!
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After that was done and “the multi vase” situated,
I then started to revise and assess all the photos that had been taken…
… which led upon inspection,
for me to consequently change my profile image!
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Life can either be accepted or changed. If it is not accepted, it must be changed.
If it cannot be changed, then it must be accepted. Batman101
The game of life has two participants, spectators and players.
Pick one! Batman101
(https://printpattern.blogspot.com) has made a call for entries for a PRINT & PATTERN BOOK
that will be printed by a top publisher Laurence King Publishing Ltd.
The aim of the book will be to celebrate the creativity in surface design and stationery today. It will feature patterns, cards, papergoods, scrapbooking, textiles, ceramics, anything with a great printed surface.
If you are interested in submitting images for the book then go here for the details.
Friday, June 27, 2008 PRINT & PATTERN BOOK
• how to submit (closing date is August 31st 2008)
Here are a few of the surface designs (tessellations) that I will be submitting…
• Lisa Rivas © 2008
In the USA this book will be distributed by Chronicle Books
I made this small "glass-art" by
fusing different pieces of colored glass.
Now I have used it for
an illustrative image in my artwork.
This glass art has now transcended
even further by being implemented
into another form of art!
"Under The Glass"
• fused glass illustration printed as an archival pigment print, 100% rag paper
Glass art is the use of glass as an artistic medium.
Specific approaches include stained glass, working glass in a torch flame (lampworking),
glass beadmaking, glass casting, glass fusing and most notably, glass blowing.
Spiritually eight is the goal of the initiate, having gone through the seven stages.
Eight is Infinity – Paradise regained.
Also considered a lucky number in Chinese culture because it sounds like the word “prosper” or “wealth”
The $100,000 is an odd bill, in that it was not generally issued, and printed only as a gold certificate of Series of 1934. They are printed in orange on the reverse. This series was discontinued in 1940.
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Esto es para mi amigo Balbino Suarez en VENEZUELA!
“¡Mucha! ¡Mucha! ¡Mucha Prosperidad Balbino!”
This is actually very beautiful money bill!
I love the “Birds” and our national hero “Simón Bolivar”…
