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The biggest tell I’ve spent the day down on the beach is a peek in my sketchbook later that day 🌊 trying to capture that kinetic action of the roiling foam and the heartbeat of the surf

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Stormy foggy cliff mornings, the blues call me like a siren, the Blaskets hidden in distant mist

Obsessed with the atmosphere and clouds from this past stormy Sunday twilight 😍

I imagine so! There's quite a lot of overcast and stormy weather here (and the temps have yet to get above 52º F, averaging around 48º F). I actually enjoy the stormy weather more 😅 but I do try to get out when it's nice

Aw it's so fun to share the photos! So glad they are move something in you!

You and I both pheeewww

On an almost impossible mission with a phone camera this morning. Instead I settled on photoing a beach at the bottom of some treacherous cliffs that I'd like to explore. It’s the climb back up I am unsure of 😅 so I have yet to attempt. Caspian was along for the adventure, best hiking companion 💙

ahahaha painfully relatable

something about it makes you want to eat it up, right?

Thinking about her (the ocean)… and abstracting ground planes 😂

Some of the cliffs around the Dingle Peninsula that I walk

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Me going out into the absolutely madcap storm weather to photograph this sunset over the Blasket Islands, yelling over 40 mph winds trying to knock me off a rickety balcony: “Oh, come on!!!”

Watching storms roll in and out of the Dingle bay from my studio skylight, listening to the howling of the wind and the birds delighted to ride the 32 kmph currents. Perfect painting weather 😍 hooks me right into this place.

The rain is pouring down the peninsula, the sea roars, the wind is whipping 32 mph around my upstairs studio/apartment. I am warm in bed, may have finally figured out the method I am after (a many months long journey). Some in-bed sketchbook experiments/quick sketches lighting me up. Perfect day 💙

Today was medium testing day. My go-to testing color is always Anthraquinone (Indanthrone/Delft) Blue (PB60). It makes its way into every last one of my paintings, so it’s a good gauge of whether I like how a medium works, or not.

Do you have a go-to color or tool?

💙💙💙 AZUR!!!!

By cultivating this habit within ourselves through a lens of grace and iteration, we soften to others and their path in life. No one has it figured it out, we're all just trying to learn the dance suited to us.

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To put yourself into something (the foundation of all creativity) is deeply vulnerable, and vulnerability takes courage, endurance, fortitude, mettle, flexibility, open-mindedness, serendipity, and the willingness to be wrong and make mistakes.

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“Learn the pain of creating something. And once you’ve learned it, resolve yourself to show lenience to others. In poetry, in literature… in everything.”

-Chihayafuru (season 3, episode 2)

This is another thing I love about art. We become more wholehearted through the striving.

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There’s something magical and effective about softly speaking soul to soul in that wordless way.

What does your soft rebellion look like today?

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Poetry does this to our hearts...

Little brooks carve out paths in the nearby seaside cliffs until they are lovingly worn canyons...

A warm meal can unravel the hardest day...

A softly lit garden can slow down the relentless forward motion of time...

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My kind of art and creativity is always an iron fist wrapped in a velvet glove, as is any other form of rebellion that I embody.

It may not be loud or wearing a leather jacket, but it will effectively and slowly create the change it envisions.

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What we call art On creativity, love, and the kind of participation that gives us a sense of aliveness.

This is one of the reasons I think art matters so much: art is one of the ways love becomes visible.

And perhaps that is why the whole thing can feel so painful when blocked. We are not merely missing a hobby! We are missing a mode of relationship.

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I wish I could get paid for my biggest talent in life, which is overthinking and therefore painting myself into a conceptual/philosophical corner

Whomst amongst us will pay me to keep hitting myself thus

I've had Mojo Pin, Grace, Last Goodbye, and So Real on a loop 💙 truly unparalleled

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Can you imagine Jeff Buckley trying to get anyone to pay attention to his absolute masterpiece, Grace, in today's world where music generally only picks up if it's 3 minutes or less? Would he have even tried to make it? Can you imagine a world without Grace in it???

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