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Strange to title my post this way...because my week has been BRIM FULL of images that I am bursting at the edges to share. This art therapy class that I am taking has inspired an over flow of work. It is an amazing experience to work in a studio with other artists. Making art while others are making art is like doing yoga with others in a class. It has a totally different energy then when making art or doing yoga by myself. I am inspired and energized and I want to bottle it up and take it home with me!
  You can see it in the faces of all the images we are making. Over the course of the week our images have become more fascinating, deeper and all seem to be feeding off of each other. As a class we are addressing themes of struggle, of witnessing one another, of art-making as performance, and so much more. It is my hope to spend time integrating these themes more when I get home and over the next few weeks.
And when I reunite with my camera cord, I will share some of the colorful brewing that has filled my creative cup this week.

I have no images

uncomfortable at the edges

Today I started the art therapy studio class that I am taking this week and
 I got off to a rattled start.
We were stuck in traffic for over an hour at the Massachusetts border.
I was perplexed as to why there were so many cars with just one person in them, all going in the same direction.
I was just disgruntled because I had to pee like crazy and there was no way to get off the highway.
We followed the GPS and it led us astray.
I arrived to my first day of class 20 minutes late.
My husband drove away and five hours later, I realized I'd left my debit card and drivers license in the car.
I forgot my camera cord and my phone charger.

I got off to a rattled start.

but....
in class, I painted. All day long. The colors, the paper, my brushes became my reliable friends. I danced with images and even if I wasn't fully there,
I am here now
getting more comfortable
with my uncomfortable edges.

uncomfortable at the edges

Photo taken from top of Madonna Mt., Jeffersonville, VT by my brother Pat

Home Sweet Home.

Happy Holidays...Many blessings for this Brand New Year!

This image is from my journal in a contemplation of the title that I have given this blog and my etsy shop.

Lately, I've been thinking a lot about the name I have chosen: art asana. Asana is a sanskrit word (the language of yoga) that means seat, posture or pose (according to the glossary in Patanjali's Yoga Sutras, translated by B.K.S Iyengar). So what is Art Asana?  In my naming of these two places in cyberspace, I wanted a name that represented my intention to embrace myself as an artist and yogi. To me, art asana means taking my seat in the intention of being an artist/entrepreneur/yogi and offering that intention up to something bigger then me. It's as if I am saying, here I am in the world (as I am), determined by my intention and diving into the flow of grace, letting it sweep me away towards whatever is in store. Taking this seat, this asana, as artist requires as much steadiness as it does letting go. Yoga asana is a way to embody our intentions and plant the seeds of them into the foundations of our bodies. We take our seat as yogis. In the same way, I set my intentions into the space of visual expression, I allow them to dance though the puddles of paint I squirt down on my palette. I take my seat as artist.
And don't we all want to feel this sense of belonging, this sense of taking our seats in our own meaningful purposes?

Pomegranate Celebration

        The sun shone in today after the weekend's storm. It was beautiful outside with the piles of snow glistening. I tried to dry apples to hang on my christmas tree, so I cut them star-ways and put them in the sun to get all wrinkly. With my pomegranate lunch, it felt festive! 

I am feeling more festive with all this snow fall! 

While it did it's blizzarding thing on Sunday, I put some of my artwork up in a shop on Etsy! See the new side bar to the right? That's my shop! So today I celebrated this with festive reds and a juicy pomegranate!

What did you celebrate today?

Pomegranate Celebration