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vonda drees art

weaving wonder, wisdom & warmheartedness

Tag: Mary Oliver

February 4

Posted on February 4, 2022 by vondadrees

This day’s gathering of images reads like a gospel haiku: Surprise encounters connect us, just as we are. Abiding process.… Read more February 4

January 19

Posted on January 19, 2022 by vondadrees

In response to the question posed in 2017’s image, to be “the continuous source of its own replenishment,” water has… Read more January 19

January 18

Posted on January 18, 2022 by vondadrees

“I want to make poems that look into the earth and the heavens and see the unseeable.” ~Mary Oliver Science… Read more January 18

January 17

Posted on January 17, 2022 by vondadrees

I pray there is a detail (“un detalle” in Spanish) from this post that touches within you an experience of… Read more January 17

January 10

Posted on January 10, 2022 by vondadrees

If you’re like me, it may require “steady presence and silky attention” (thank you, Mary Oliver) to see the myriad… Read more January 10

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Instagram holds many seasons of my creative contemplation. It continues to be a place I share fresh paint & ink, and I'd be delighted to meet you there!

“Let no one say the past is dead, the past is all about us and within.” -Oodgeroo Noonucal Every eight years the dance of Venus and Earth create the pattern called the Rose of Venus. You can see a video of their dance here -https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=H4fHl541uaw. Still pondering the colors for my Pentecost image, especially the area under the curves that is currently yellow in the first sketch. Although next in my liturgical lineup of images is Pentecost, today I share my green Ordinary Time one as a way to honor St. Patrick. “The paradox of hospitality is that it wants to create emptiness— a friendly emptiness where strangers can enter and discover themselves as created free; free to sing their own songs, speak their own languages, dance their own dances…” -Henri Nouwen Before Fibonacci came Pingala, an ancient Indian poet and mathematician (c. 3rd-2nd century BCE.) Pingala studied poetic metres and verse in Sanskrit prosody. Here is the image in process for Good Friday. I scribbled a prayer in the margins: YHWH, forgive our lack of imagination. There is rich visual imagery when remembering the Passion Week. I recently learned that there’s an art word, pentimento, that is “the presence or emergence of earlier images, forms, strokes painted over.” It’s also the Italian word for repentance.

You can also view my work on Pinterest. Here's an image from my recent journaling through The 1619 Project: A New Origin Story.

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