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IF • Hoard

June 20, 2008 · 15 Comments

We are not cisterns made for hoarding, we are channels made for sharing.
Billy Graham

Blue Plate © Lisa rivas

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

   

Filed In: Fine Art, Illustration, Pattern

Sustainer…

June 19, 2008 · Leave a Comment

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 - © by Lisa Rivas - Botanica Collection

“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

   

Filed In: Fine Art, Las Botánicas, Pattern

…dance for yourself!

June 18, 2008 · 2 Comments

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

Reed Dance by © Lisa Rivas

Lisa Rivas © 2008 • Jig a Reed
Anyone who says sunshine brings happiness has never danced in the rain.
Author Unknown

   

Filed In: Fine Art, Pattern

Alegria’s birth…

June 17, 2008 · 2 Comments

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.

Festdetail3

Lisa Rivas © 2008 • FEST 

   

Filed In: Fine Art, Ideas, Illustration

IF • Punchline

June 13, 2008 · 5 Comments

“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

Punchline

"Perhaps" and "Haven"
Casein and colored pencil on linen • 5" x 5" ea. • Lisa Rivas © 2008

   

Filed In: Fine Art, Ideas

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