Personal Meditations
Personal Meditations is a series of text-based artworks influenced by my personal meditation practice, related texts and mentors. I created two site-specific installations using individual artworks combined with, in one, elements created onsite throughout the exhibit (Personal Meditations at Arts Midhudson in Poughkeepsie) and for the second, using my work combined with artwork created onsite by community participants who were prompted to meditate on love while creating work to be added to the installation (Meditations on Love at the Woodstock Artist’s Association and Museum’s (“WAAM”) Habitat for Artists (“HFA”) Studio - a public facing outdoor studio just outside the museum)
Being present is hard, but I’m trying….making art forces a presence of mind and body - it is the most challenging and rewarding aspect of being an artist.
Some of the individual artworks here are still available for exhibit and sale - please feel free to contact me with inquiries
earth will abide, pen and ink on birch bark
nature is indifferent, pen and ink on birch bark
wabi sabi (view 1), mobile - pen and ink on birch bark
wabi sabi (view 2), mobile - pen and ink on birch bark
Personal Meditations a 2019 site-specific installation at Arts MidHudson
Personal Meditations: Loving Kindness, an installation of 48 unique prints at Arts MidHudson in 2019
Personal Meditations Loving Kindness (side 1), a unique artists book - see video for full book demo
Personal Meditations Loving Kindness, etchings, gold ink on Black Rives paper, black ink on White Rives paper
Meditations on Love, an interactive installation at WAAM's Habitat for Artist's (HFA) Studio
everything you love, unique artists book
Personal Meditations V, unique artists book
Personal Tao (orientation 1), pen and ink on cardboard
Personal Tao (orientation 2), pen and ink on cardboard
Wasting Time, unique artists book
Personal Meditations 100
Live Love - a kinetic mobile
personal meditations loving kindness
a unique artists book