Speak clearly, if you speak at all;
carve every word before you let it fall.
Oliver Wendell Holme
• carved design on earthenware (clay) and painted with underglaze • Lisa Rivas © 2008 • Bell
Insults should be written in sand, compliments should be carved in stone. Arab Proverb
eyes fluttering
out on a string
dilated pupils
frozen stare
chattering teeth
submersed in fear
deep anxiety
sidelong glance
a sweet fakery
peeking just so
in gray shadows
nerve racking
hung in suspense
between whispers
sweating bullets
racing palpitations
uncertain drama
skeptical illusions
shaking knees
resounding tics
blinking lights
among the folds
drowning gasps
and swept tears
original painting – artist collection / available – Nashville, TN – USA • "Into Focus"
• watercolor, wax, ricepaper, glazed • 36" H x 72" W • © Lisa Rivas
If someone has nerves of steel, they don't get frightened when other people do.
Punctuality is the art of guessing how late the other fellow is going to be.
Unknown
“Cukoo’s Clock” | original painting – private collection – Guadalaja, Mexico
• watercolor, wax, ricepaper, then quilted! • 36″H x 36″W • © Lisa Rivas
Sometimes we stare so long at a door that is closing that we see too late the one that is open.
Alexander Graham Bell
…are the long "bristlelike" projections
on the seeds of wheat, oats and grasses.
They play a role in the dispersal
of seeds in the air and the actual
planting of them in the ground!
Wheat FEEL
The awns feel the changes in humidity
and this leads to their bending.
This bending helps them push
the seed along. By bending back
and forth upon feeling these
slight changes in humidity
they accomplish the digging,
the pushing and then in
the final burial of the seed down
a few inches into the soil!
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• 10" x 10" • Lisa Rivas © 2007 • "Feeling"
• watercolor, digital, printed on ricepaper and mounted on canvas
The great art of life is sensation, to feel that we exist, even in pain. Lord Byron
What a country calls its vital economic interests are not the things which enable its citizens to live, but the things which enable it to make war. Petrol is more likely than wheat to be a cause of international conflict. Simone Weil
…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