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IF • Fierce

June 27, 2008 · 14 Comments

These birds are furiously eager in their “fierce competition” for water at this oasis.

original painting – private collection – Weston, FL – USA • “Oasis”
• watercolor, wax, ricepaper, quilted • 36″H x 36″W • © Lisa Rivas
Fierce extremes in their continuances will not feed themselves.
William Shakespeare

…bud or bug?

June 26, 2008 · 1 Comment

"We think too small,

like the frog at the bottom of the well.
He thinks the sky is only as big as the top of the well.
If he surfaced, he would have an entirely different view."
Mao Tse-Tung

Off shoots…

June 25, 2008 · 6 Comments

…like limbs or arms, they reach and embrace,
rising from the main axis or central trunk.
Stems that extend “opposite” from
or enter into a main body or source,
like many streams flowing.
They are part of a complex body as
members are related in a family.
Ramifying further into leaves,
buds, blossoms and fruits.

The excessive increase of anything
causes a reaction in the opposite direction. Plato

“Branches”
• watercolor, digital, printed on ricepaper and mounted on canvas
• 10″ x 10″ • Lisa Rivas © 2007
Instinct must be thwarted just as one prunes the branches of a tree so that it will grow better.
Henri Matisse