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IF • Blur

November 6, 2009 · 12 Comments

Sometimes in our confusion, we see not the world as it is,
but the world though eyes blurred by the mind. ~ author unknown

original painting – private collection – Memphis, TN – USA – "Fata Morgana"
watercolor, wax, rice paper, quilted • 36"H x 40"W • © Lisa Rivas

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A "fata morgana", Italian translation of Morgan le Fay, the fairy shape-shifting half-sister of King Arthur, is a mirage, an optical phenomenon which results from a temperature inversion.

People tend to focus on the here and now. The problem is that, once global warming is something that most people can feel in the course of their daily lives, it will be too late to prevent much larger, potentially catastrophic changes.
~ Elizabeth Kolbert (American journalist – author)

original painting – private collection – Memphis, TN – USA – “The Dip”
watercolor, wax, rice paper, sewn • 24″H x 24″W • © Lisa Rivas

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All across the world, in every kind of environment and region known to man, increasingly dangerous weather patterns and devastating storms are abruptly putting an end to the long-running debate over whether or not climate change is real. Not only is it real, it’s here, and its effects are giving rise to a frighteningly new global phenomenon: the man-made natural disaster. BARACK OBAMA, speech, Apr. 3, 2006

IF • Flying

October 13, 2009 · 5 Comments

Man is flying too fast for a world that is round.
Soon he will catch up with himself in a great rear end collision. James Thurber

original painting – available – Nashville, TN – USA – “Flying Colors”
watercolor, wax, rice paper, silver leaf leaf, glazed • 40″H x 36″W • © Lisa Rivas

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Flying Colors: victorious; extremely successful.
The term comes from the practice of a victorious fleet sailing into port with flags flying from all the mastheads.

IF • Pattern

September 25, 2009 · 7 Comments

Art is the imposing of a pattern on experience,
and our aesthetic enjoyment is the recognition of the pattern. ~Alfred North Whitehead

original painting – private collection – Memphis, TN – USA – “Palindrome”
watercolor, wax, rice paper, gold leaf, quilted • 40″H x 36″W • © Lisa Rivas

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This painting was designed to be hung in any direction, thus the title of “Palindrome”

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A palindrome is a word or pattern that instead of developing in different directions it folds in on itself
so that the beginning and end mirror each other, that they are the same.
~ Todd Solondz (American film director and screenwriter)

IF • Infinite

September 24, 2009 · 2 Comments

Finite to fail, but infinite to venture. Emily Dickinson

original painting – private collection – Memphis, TN – USA – “The Infinite Solitary”
watercolor, wax, rice paper, quilted • 38″H x 36″W • © Lisa Rivas

If one is lucky, a solitary fantasy can totally transform one million realities. Maya Angelou

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Music fills the infinite between two souls. Rabindranath Tagore

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