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Burst (of color)

September 17, 2012 · Leave a Comment

I hope you will go out and let stories happen to you,
and that you will work them,
water them with your blood and tears and your laughter till they bloom,

till you yourself burst into bloom!
~ Clarissa Pinkola Estes

original painting – private collection – Nashville, TN – USA – “Watermelon and Grapes”
watercolor, wax, ricepaper, fabric pipping, sewn • 36″H x 36″W • © Lisa Rivas

Every blessed one of you feels better for that burst of laughter. ~Ivor Novello

Grant me some wild expressions, Heavens! …or I shall burst. ~George Farquhar

Music is the universal language of mankind. ~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

original painting – corporate collection – Memphis, TN – USA – “The Musical Tree”
watercolor, wax, rice paper, quilted • 72″H x 72″W (triptych) • © Lisa Rivas

A painter paints pictures on canvas. But musicians paint their pictures on silence. ~ Leopold Stokowski

Fast money!

October 25, 2009 · 7 Comments

If you wish to travel far and fast, travel light.
Take off all your envies, jealousies, unforgiveness, selfishness and fears. ~Cesare Pavese

original painting – corporate collection – Memphis, TN – USA – “Overcall”
watercolor, wax, rice paper, quilted • 40″H x 38″W • © Lisa Rivas

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Light thinks it travels faster than anything but it is wrong. No matter
how fast light travels, it finds the darkness has always got there
first, and is waiting for it. ~Terry Pratchett

Papel Picado,

September 28, 2008 · 13 Comments

She is a tree
of life to them
that lay
hold upon her:

and happy
is every one
that retaineth
her.
Bible quote

I designed and created this piece to honor and remember my mother, she is just in a different dimensional plane.

Our death is not an end if we can live on in our children and the younger generation.
For they are us, our bodies are only wilted leaves on the tree of life. Albert Einstein

Papel picado (“perforated paper”) is the Mexican art of papercutting into elaborate designs.

Detach

August 15, 2008 · 21 Comments

Detachment involves present-moment living – living in the here and now.
We allow life to happen instead of forcing and trying to control it.
We relinquish regrets over the past and fears about the future.
We make the most of each day.
Melody Beattie

original painting – private collection – Clarksburg, WV – USA • “The Slip”
• watercolor, wax, ricepaper and then quilted! • 36″H x 36″W • © Lisa Rivas

An old thing becomes new if you detach it from what usually surrounds it. ~Robert Bresson

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