Visual Expressions Across The Planet January 24, 2012

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Spread 159- Creating On Purpose January 18, 2012

Starting my year strong and ready for what it will bring to me. Last weekend I came back from Puerto Vallarta, Mexico, where I was teaching alternative portraiture, deepening my view that visual journaling is all about that: portraying one’s self in boundless and immeasurably magnificent and honest ways. And in the process, countless new ways to be are revealed. In this week in Beautiful Hacienda Mosaico my purpose was clarified furthermore. I know now, on a truer level, that people who come to my workshops must feel respected and valued, that they are supported with opportunities to use their intrinsic creative forces in ways that originate in their guts and manifest in lush, dynamic, tactile, and tangible visual feasts on pages of a journal. That my job is to enable passionate students to work alongside each other to achieve individual and common purpose in the face of self doubt and lack of conviction.

I am joyful and excited about my opportunities this year to act on these sentiments:

Intuitive Art-Journaling – Monthly day workshops in Southern California (Redondo Beach and San Diego) – Email me @ orlyavineri@gmail.com to be added on my list to receive my monthly newsletter with detailed info about the workshop of the month. 

Artfest –  March 28-April 1, 2012 – Port Townsend, Washington

Create – Mixed-Media Retreat – May 30-June 3, 2012 – Irvine, CA

Create – Mixed-Media Retreat – July 18-22, 2012 – Somerset, New Jersey

Call of the Wild Soul – The UK Sacred Art Retreat – September 27-30, 2012 – Somerset, England

May your path this year be filled with new findings, I hope our paths will cross. 

Spread 158- A 2012 Note In My Journal December 29, 2011

According to the Mayan calendar the world we know will end on December 21, 2012. I don’t believe that but I do believe I should treat it as if it’s my last year here on earth. I’d like to make a note for myself to not forget one important thing! “The important thing is to DO, and nothing else, be what it may.” -Pablo Picasso. My father was very good at that. I should have ‘let’ him teach me that a long time ago. To climb up the ladder. Not contemplate with each and every step “should I, will I be good at it, will I be good at that like the others are, how should I name it? define it? explain it? excuse it? Is what I make worthy of being called art? What kind of art? Will ‘they’ like it?” There is really no time for such mind interruptions, I should commit to ‘doing,’ to keep on fine-tuning my one of a kind voice through hard physical work, to keep on keeping on…doing!!

Spread 157- Light-To-Me December 18, 2011

My name, Or-ly, literally means Light-To-Me in Hebrew. I sometimes forget. I carry my name nonchalantly, day to day. It basically means: I have light. It’s true, but I sometimes forget. We all have light but we forget. “Each and every one is a small light, and all of us, a forceful light” (from a Hanukkah song). We have enough to sustain our little worlds and lots more to illuminate many other worlds, to push away divisiveness, to deter darkness, to embrace simplicity of human bonds. To maintain majestic levels of love to support the continuity of miracles.

Spread 156- Begin Quietly December 13, 2011

For soul’s sake, just quiet that quarrelsome mind when approaching the page.

“All true artists, whether they know it or not, create from a place of no-mind, from inner stillness. The mind then gives form to the creative impulse. Even the great scientists have reported that their creative breakthroughs came at a time of mental quietude.”

–Eckhart Tolle

Spread 155- When The Rooster Cries December 5, 2011

Wake up or you may be late to create your new emergence.

Spread 154- Close-ups November 29, 2011

An unfamiliar and gripping process it was to scout for tiny little visual worlds within my, in comparison, much larger journal pages for the purpose of designing 100 Moo mini cards. I was gently moving around the Rectangular Marquee tool (in Photoshop) in search for many self-contained macro visual worlds laden with new meaningful perceivable information. An eye-opening, revelatory, and happy-making process. I should do this more often. It’s like diving into a far-and-wide-reaching river, aiming straight to the deep bottom to get a glimpse of a small river rock that is like no other, one with its own story, solely told by me. The mini compositions offered me intimacy I did not notice before in my pages. I tend to look at my art, my days, my everything through wide-angle lenses, from a panoramic view. Sometimes my riverbed appears quite indistinct until I pick one rock up and look at it closely.

Spread 153- Make Do November 23, 2011

Sometimes too many tools, supplies, and materials, hinder me from finding myself in my art. Sometimes multitude of ideas, concepts, and grand plans, muffle my voice. Sometimes having fewer options may seem to pose a challenge when in fact it leads me to the purest form of my expression. I try to make do with what I’ve got. I try to focus on the ‘making’ and on the ‘doing’ rather than on creating ‘special effects,’ illusions. I know from my experience that my truest most honest work comes from a lack of…

Happy thanks giving to what we already have.

Spread 152- Don’t Be A Loser! November 15, 2011

Last Friday, on 11/11/11 my son turned 16. He of all people teaches me to be with others and not lose myself in them, not in their words, nor their silences. Every day he teaches me that realities of others are just that, realities of others. How does he know that already?

Spread 151- Wanna See Beauty? November 7, 2011

I LOVE this quote that was shared with me by a friend a few days ago, “We are here to awaken from the illusion of our separateness”  by Thich Nhat Hanh. It was then that I decided that my next post will be all about our sameness.

These journal pages were also inspired by this video of these  faces of Papua New Guinea, strikingly beautiful with or without color. The caption says: Amazing traditions, colors, power, beliefs!

I don’t know why, it’s moving me to tears.