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IF • Frozen

October 20, 2009 · Leave a Comment

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

A Pink Delight… yum!

September 2, 2009 · 7 Comments

Today I harvested my very first watermelon and then I dropped it!
This watermelon spilled sweet juice everywhere…

…all over my shoes, it was like a downpour of ❤ "pink rain" ❤

When one has tasted watermelon, one knows what the angels eat. Mark Twain

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Watermelon rinds are also edible, and sometimes used as a vegetable. In China, they are stir-fried, stewed, or more often pickled. When stir-fried, the de-skinned and de-fruited rind is cooked with olive oil, garlic, chili peppers, scallions, sugar and rum.

Mother of Millions,

May 11, 2009 · 15 Comments

The earth is at the same time mother,
she is mother of all that is natural,
mother of all that is human.

She is the mother of all,
for contained in her are the seeds of all.

Hildegard of Bingen (German abbess, 1098 – 1179)

This piece was inspired from a wonderful “photo” of Julie’s at A Succulent Life

“Mother of Thousands” (Kalanchoe diagremontiana) reproduces by producing tiny plantlets that drop from the edges of its leaves, it has lost the ability to make viable seeds. This succulent has shifted some of the genetic processes that make seeds to it’s leaves.

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Never allow anyone to rain on your parade
and thus cast a pall of gloom and defeat on your entire day. Og Mandino

Gego

March 30, 2009 · 11 Comments

For the past few months, while focusing on the diverse / unique structures of cacti and rendering their forms, a very dear professor of mine would come to mind often, her name is Gertrude Goldschmidt, also known as GEGO.

Gego taught a course called “Three-Dimensional Form & Spatial Solutions” at the Hans Neumann School of Design in Caracas, Venezuela where I studied Graphic Design. I took this in depth course of hers for 3 consecutive years and worked extensively with spatial concepts… that explains why I think of her so often when I look at these cacti and succulents.

Upon pondering it came to me how spatially interconnected we all are and thus with nature also. And that thanks to the web and art we have been able to express it in so many a wonderful ways, like this Cactus Monday group has done!

• 10″ x 10″ • (thelocactus) • © Lisa Rivas • “Tribute to GEGO“
• watercolor, digital, printed on ricepaper and mounted on canvas

Gego is a very well known artist, she played with the idea of the stable and
the unstable elements of art. The stable elements of art was the sculpture
itself, while the unstable elements consist of the constantly changing
shadows and the slight movement in her design. She used scraps of metal that she would bend and
weave together in order to evoke movement, experimentation and
spontaneity. (Venezuelan, born Germany. 1912-1994)

She did a whole series called “Drawings without Paper”…
…to read more about her click GEGO

The creative economy is giving rise to a new spatial fix and a very different geography
– the contours of which are only now emerging…

IF • Subtract

March 20, 2009 · 14 Comments

I painted 2 different pieces ÷ (divided) ea. into 2 groups = odd strips / even strips,
or – (subtracted) the odd strips or the even strips from each painting!
Then I + (added) the even #s (numbers) with the even #s (numbers) for 1 painting,
also I + (added) the odd #s (numbers) with the odd #s (numbers) for 2nd painting.

I ended up = with 2 similar paintings = they went to 2 different art collections!

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original painting – corporate collection – Boston, MA – USA – "Translation"
watercolor, wax, rice paper, foil, quilted • 39"H x 31"W • © Lisa Rivas

Result = ½ half of each image has been "subtracted" from this final piece!

Math can be confusing or tricky at times and one can lose tract easily of something.

No legacy is so rich as honesty. William Shakespeare

The abacus, also called a counting frame, is a calculating tool used primarily in parts of Asia for performing arithmetic processes. It is still widely used by merchants, traders and clerks in Asia, Africa, and elsewhere. Many blind people find this number machine a very useful tool throughout life.

"Nowruz" marks the first day of spring and the New Year in the Iranian calendar.
It is celebrated on the day of the astronomical vernal equinox, which usually occurs on March 21 or the previous/following day depending on where it is observed.

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