We are not cisterns made for hoarding, we are channels made for sharing.
Billy Graham
original painting – private collection – Chicago, IL – USA • “Blue Plate”
• watercolor, wax, ricepaper, quilted • 36″H x 36″W • © Lisa Rivas
If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world.
J.R.R. Tolkien
This root is holding fast
providing nutrition and stability.
It is an anchor to the ground and
a force in search of water and food.
Keeping away from drought it seeks and grows.
It may crack foundations, snap waterlines
and lift sidewalks to find the water and permanence.
But it could also protect this environment by holding in our soil
and preventing it’s impoverishment by erosion.
“Roots”
• watercolor, digital, printed on ricepaper and mounted on canvas
• 10″ x 10″ • Lisa Rivas © 2007
When solving problems, dig at the roots instead of just hacking at the leaves. Anthony D’Angelo
we dance for laughter, we dance for tears,
we dance for madness, we dance for fears,
we dance for hopes, we dance for screams,
we are the dancers,
… for we create the dreams!
Anonymous
Lisa Rivas © 2008 • Jig a Reed
Anyone who says sunshine brings happiness has never danced in the rain.
Author Unknown
The dance resounded with music and sounds of merriment.
There existed a lively atmosphere of convivial gaiety
that turned into a feast, cheerful in mirth and laughter.
Lisa Rivas © 2008 • FEST
“An attempt at visualizing the "Fourth Dimension":
Take a point, stretch it into a line, curl it into a circle, twist it into a sphere,
and punch through the sphere.” Albert Einstein
"Perhaps" and "Haven"
Casein and colored pencil on linen • 5" x 5" ea. • Lisa Rivas © 2008