Category: art
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Art and the Artist
As some of you may know, I am an amateur artist in that I don’t sell my art work professionally. My interest in art began as a form of emotional healing and art therapy. It has helped me tremendously to tap into my right brain where I believe emotional healing can take place. As I…
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The Siren
Today, I attended the exhibit of Auguste Rodin (1840 – 1917) one of the most influential sculptures of our time. He is most well known for his sculptures “The Thinker” and “The Kiss.” I, however, found his siren sculptures to be most intriguing. The myth was that sirens through their songs lured seamen off their…
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Intuitive Solutions in Creativity
In the past week, I spent the week at the Appalachian Center for Crafts at a class on flameworking as demonstrated in the above photo. This class was a glass process class that is to learn how glass works rather than just learning to make objects. A big part of glassblowing whether in a…
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Focusing on the Process
This week, I am taking a Flameworking class or blowing glass on a torch with a teacher who is the guru of flameworking. He believes in learning the process of flameworking, and not on the end result or the final artwork. This is why I decided to take a class with him, as he…
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The Divine Feminine: Artistic Expression through Glass
This week, I am taking a glassblowing class called Flameworking that is blowing glass on a torch at the Appalachian Center for Crafts. During our first class, we were asked to introduce ourselves and discuss why we are taking this class. I recounted my first encounter with glassblowing in 2010 that I believed I…
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Metaphor for My Spiritual Path
This week has been an exciting week of glassblowing in a week long intensive class with others who also love glass, and it’s a great feeling of camaraderie with others. I have made friends and learned many great skills. I learned a lot about myself this week that I can work well with others, that…
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Making Peace with Our Past
This week, I am taking glassblowing classes. In these classes, I am learning how to create glass objects on a torch called flameworking, then incorporating these objects into a glass creation made in a furnace called hot glassblowing. It is truly beautiful to see your creation transformed from melted or molten glass into a piece…
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