Oh no! "The Ovals"! screamed the "black speckled hens".
What happened to "THE OVALS"?
They are cracked and empty!!!
The "smooth eggs" and the "hairy coconut", all of them!
That "big oval" had something to do with this… they all got just too close…
What do we do now?
digital illustration – Lisa Rivas © 2008 • "Looking for Ovals"
PREVIOUS OVALS: All Ovals II • Visiting Ovals I
• digital illustration – Lisa Rivas © 2008
This continues…
A wise old owl sat in an oak;
The more he saw the less he spoke;
The less he spoke the more he heard;
Why aren't we like that wise old bird?
Edward Hersey Richards (b. 1874)
original painting – artist collection – Nashville, TN – USA – "Atonement"
• watercolor, wax, ricepaper, then quilted! • 38"H x 60"W • © Lisa Rivas
Never mistake knowledge for wisdom.
One helps you make a living; the other helps you make a life.
Sandra Carey
The Nopal Cactus originates and is native to Mexico.
Nopal is the root of Mexico City's Aztec name ‘Tenochtitlan’ meaning "place of the cactus".
It has been serving mankind as a staple food and healing plant for thousands of years.
Of the genus Opuntia from the Cactaceae family and also known as the Prickly Pear Cactus.
• watercolor, wax on ricepaper • © Lisa Rivas • "Nopales"
The term Nopalitos refers to the Nopal pads once they have been cut up and prepared for eating.
Following Candied Nopalitos!
Absence of occupation is not rest; "a mind quite vacant" is a mind in distress!
William Cowper
original painting – private collection – Memphis, TN – USA – "Heads or Tales?"
• watercolor, wax, ricepaper, then quilted! • 38"H x 36"W • © Lisa Rivas
If you leave the smallest corner of your head vacant for a moment,
other people's opinions will rush in from all quarters.
George Bernard Shaw
…is one of the stock characters
of the Commedia del’Arte, Italian Comedy.
From his ludicrous dress comes the
meaning “particolored”, colored in sections.
The Harlequin Bug is a stinkbug,
dressed in multicolored, fanciful-patterns.
They are of the family of insects called
Pentatomidae, from the Greek words:
pente/five and tomos/sections.
“Arlecchino Stinkbug” e-Stamp
• fused glass – illustration printed as an archival pigment print, 100% rag paper
Stinkbugs are so named because they secrete a foul-smelling liquid that is repulsive to most predators.
Smell is a potent wizard that transports you across thousand of miles
and all the years you have lived. Helen Keller
