Orly Avineri's Blog

Spread 163- All Things Are Two

Orly — Thu, 23 Feb 2012 19:18:09 +0000

As I was finishing these journal pages, emerging were the faces of Vincent van Gogh and an unknown Mayan person. If I’d be simplistic for a moment, to me, one represents living solely in the confines of one’s own mind, and the other, living modestly as a small part that makes the whole, the grand earth. Together they represent the opposites that reside in us all. All things are two. We are too. Conflicted, yet embraceable. I didn’t plan these pages to say all this, they just did. They always, somehow, sneakily, find a way to reveal the schisms within.

Spread 162- “It’s My Party And I’ll Cry If I Want To…”

Orly — Thu, 16 Feb 2012 05:54:11 +0000

In some places in the world it’s my birthday today. I am 53 years old. No one is going to take it away from me. I am standing tall and proud when realizing my tremendous beautiful and complex evolution. I come from a place where pain reigns and am in a place where pain teaches. I am so much lighter than before in-spite of my heavy walk. I know that nothing in me is certain nor constant besides two things: the love in me and my visual language. I know how to celebrate me, not needing to throw a tantrum demanding to be celebrated. I am well off.

Spread 161- Ed. Vs. Ed.

Orly — Wed, 08 Feb 2012 02:38:53 +0000

Creating vs. producing. Truth vs. pose. Own voice vs. special effects. Necessity vs. luxury. Journey vs. destination. Got to teach the kids to create rather than art-make.

Spread 160- The Plainness Of Expression

Orly — Tue, 31 Jan 2012 21:29:01 +0000

Heart exposure and intimacy are indivisible and should be always exhibited in the process of creation.

Visual Expressions Across The Planet

Orly — Tue, 24 Jan 2012 19:19:24 +0000

http://www.callofthewildsoul.com/

Spread 159- Creating On Purpose

Orly — Wed, 18 Jan 2012 20:29:50 +0000

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

Orly — Thu, 29 Dec 2011 23:41:57 +0000

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

Orly — Sun, 18 Dec 2011 07:24:18 +0000

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

Orly — Tue, 13 Dec 2011 04:29:24 +0000

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

Orly — Mon, 05 Dec 2011 01:46:03 +0000

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