It is no longer the false ideal of creating perfection that I seek . It is , rather , the honest and quiet self and the passion and courage living freely in imagination that is explored in creative endeavors that guided outward and into works of art . When the works in that unmissable…
There are moments when a sense of separateness enters my awareness . Most often it goes unexamined these days usually due to the pulls and tugs of work and social expectations . It has become so easy to fall into routines of distraction with out examination . A pause holds the space of power ….
Three original works of art by Barbara L. chapman are included in a show at Sisters Restaurant . The show will run until the beginning of November 2018 .
The inner pull to protect all that is irreplaceable , to embody the power of courageous love . In this work one idea of protection was explored . It was an emotional desire to protect the earth and all of her inhabitants while attempting to fill the mind with a sense of power , of…
They were mine once, in a dream …or was it in that other lifetime ? The heart must know . That’s where I’ll go to seek my wings . The sense of them wrapping around me gently and protecting my soul soothes me into sweet release . It is a difficult sort of freedom not…
The feel of mother earth beneath my bare feet introduces the sacredness of each step in living . Nourishment given and taken away in a blink and dazzling lies of man disappear within the whispers of the trees . Willing to feel . And I mean Feel . Then the sounds of the heartbeats of…
A realization that came early on in my life was that when the drive to explore was awakened I couldn’t sit around waiting for someone else to decide to join me ….or not . That would be too big of an invitation to frustration and regret . Those moments arrive like a click ….
