"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
Lisa Rivas © 2008 • Frog Bugs?
32, 33, 34
"Storytelling E-Stamps"
from posted artwork with a little "story to tell" or with a narrative flavor!
"Perhaps" in my mind I can roam and fly over to that "haven"…
• archival pigment print on 100% rag paper • Lisa Rivas © 2008 • Perhaps
We do have this "Haven" to rest and "perhaps" nest in…
• archival pigment print on 100% rag paper • Lisa Rivas © 2008 • Haven
…"perhaps" that "haven" is where we should leave our "Imprints".
• archival pigment print on 100% rag paper • Lisa Rivas © 2008 • Imprints
And "they lived happily" ever after…
Purchase the original paintings of these stamps at:
www.lisarivas.etsy.com
IF • Hoard
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
Alegria’s birth…
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
Legend of the Dogwood,
As legend has it:
The cross on which Jesus was crucified was constructed of dogwood.
This greatly distressed the “Dogwood Tree”, so God then decreed from that day forth, that the dogwood would never grow large enough to be used to make a cross. Henceforth, it shall be small, slender, bent and twisted.
It’s blossoms shall be in the form of a cross each bearing a rusty indentation as of a nail. In the center of the flower, stained with blood, will be a crown of thorns, so that all who see it will “remember.”
Flowering dogwood branch (Cornus florida)
Illustration • Lisa Rivas © 2008
Dogwood is so named from the “dags” (skewers) being made of it. It’s wood is exceedingly hard and serviceable for many utilitarian purposes.
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