What bird are you in this possibly frightening or despairing time in world politics?
What bird are you in this possibly delightful or joyful season of festivity?
I am not a victim
Sally Swain © original art
You saw it here first! I tucked the painting away out of view in case of appearing too grumpy. It’s time for this particular bird-woman to show herself.
I had the privilege of
Creative Wellspring fragment
I don’t mean seriousness. I can be as serious as anyone.
How to define earnestness? I don’t know. I think I mean
Bird and boat.
I wonder
how you stay afloat.
Boat and bird,
Boat and bird.
With water
and with wings, I’ve heard.
Bird and Boat
Sally Swain © original art
teeny watercolour in journal
There’s much I could
making do.
With bricolage, you play with the materials at hand, even if they are old soggy paint-logged facial tissues.
‘These magical acts of creation are analogous to pulling a large amount of rabbit from a small amount of hat.’
says Stephen Nachmanovitch in ‘Free Play – the Power of Improvisation in Life and the Arts’. *
Dabflowers
Sally Swain © original art
picture made from other people’s leftover paint tissues, plus glue, watercolour, pen.
Quite 3 dimensional. Coiled tissue pirals in the centre.
Remember a couple of
at the same time?
Yeah. I reckon so. It’s called Divine Play. Or ‘Lila’ (which means Divine Play in Sanskrit). Or Creativity.
Ancestor Boat
Sally Swain
© original art
I travelled to
The creation of something new is not accomplished by the intellect but by the play instinct acting from inner necessity. The creative mind plays with the objects it loves.
Carl Jung
Peronelle with Cushion Wings
Ruby Foster-Swain for
Random Acts of Travelling Sculpture
Do you have any idea how much time, energy and focus went into this hairdo?
Let me tell you it was
‘I’m lucky? Why?’ I asked.
‘Because you can take new photos to put on your blog every week.’
Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up.
Pablo Picasso
Which of our friends here is to feature in Random Acts of Travelling Sculpture?
Yep. You guessed it.
The one with the funky headgear. And I don’t mean the chicken. ‘Peronelle and Pals on the Verandah’
Styling and photo by Ruby Foster-Swain
Art and Soul Space 