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All Along 

8/31/2015

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The images in this little video slideshow are all images of the same painting, taken at different points throughout the process used to create it. The end result, the heart, was the most mysterious surprise!

What is unusual about the final image is that earlier in the day I had been trying to paint a heart using alcohol inks. The ink didn't cooperate and nothing went in the direction I wanted, so I washed off the tile and played with the ink and the alcohol spray. 

Three drops of each color; red, orange, yellow, brown, green, purple, cranberry. I let them blend and dry and then spritzed the painted tile with alcohol spray. I started taking pictures after each spray, hoping to capture a bit of the magic that happens when the colors work together. 

When the heart appeared, my eyes grew wide and I experienced that sense of wonder that I once thought was reserved for the joyful discoveries of childhood. The heart, that it existed at all, was impossible to ignore. I had a lot to wonder about. How did that happen? Maybe I couldn't create a heart earlier because it was already there. Maybe my muse was at work while I played, placing each drop carefully and distributing each spritz of spray. 

Something was happening there and it was trying to say something about the origins of art.

It makes me wonder what else might happen in this life if I would just get out of the way? 

My son created the music, which makes it all the more special to me. 
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Sandra Heska King link
9/1/2015 05:35:59

This is super awesome.

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Donna
9/1/2015 06:37:57

Thanks, Sandra! I love the music Matt put there. It was fun collaborating with him. :)

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michelle ortega link
9/17/2015 09:26:19

*sniff* This is so sweet! <3

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Donna
9/17/2015 11:27:12

:) Thank you Michelle. I love what my son did with it - it was fun to watch him work. He's really got a great art-music-sense. :)

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Abby link
6/26/2022 03:25:48

Hi great readinng your blog

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