Sea of Hearts - in My Drawers

Day #30 of What's in My Drawers.

Sea of Hearts
spray paint, image transfer, collage on paper
8.5" x 8.5"
©NanciHersh
SOLD

This is a fitting piece for the final day of my What's in My Drawers series.

It hasn't been in my drawers very long- at least not as a whole piece. The Color Aid paper (from my under graduate days!) cut out heart and the piece of a wall paper sample are in my drawer of collage materials that I pick, choose and rummage through. The other elements have joined together recently to become what I believe will be my holiday/New Year's card this year.

And you can own the original.

So to all my friends, collectors, readers and supporters in this busy complicated times I send you a
Sea of Hearts.

Love and gratitude at the heart of it all. Thank you.

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When Life Unravels

When Life Unravels - Let Go
Gesso, spraypaint, graphite aquarelle on paper
32" x 42"
©2012NanciHersh

Am in the midst of reading Comfortable with Uncertainty- 108 Teachigns on Cultivating Fearlessness and Compassion by Pema Chodron. Whether it is moving, making art, facing cancer, birth, marriage, divorce- you can fill in the blanks, life is about transition.  

"As long as we believe that there is something that will permanently satisfy our hunger for security, suffering is inevitable. The truth is that things are always in transition. 'Nothing to hold on to' is the root of happiness. If we allow ourselves to rest here, we find that is is a tender, nonaggressive, open- ended state of affairs.

This is where the path of fearlessness lifes."           Pema Chodron

Learning to let go... safety nets are only an illustion.

Maybe It is the Flux

Funny how we can find the threads that connect our work over the years.

Sifting through Life Drawing #09/11
11.25" x 17"
Stabilo aquarelle on paper with gesso
©2012NanciHersh

Looking through my Ranch Camp Series from 20 years ago of Waialua, Hawaii to the Sifting through Life Nets I am working on, I see that it may be the shadows, fluidity, movement - or just trying to capture what really is only a fleeting moment in time.

Maybe it's the flux that I find so interesting.

Note to my blog buddies and anyone else for that matter:  After our Skype talk yesterday about how we lable or talk about our work and the context it frames for others, I am trying on different titles for the nets that I have been making. Sifting through Life Nets- whaddya think? A little long? 


I feel like the search for Cinderella and the perfect fit.  HEY that brings me to find another thread and a not so different title for a series that I have.  Walks thru Life: Shoe Portraits

It's all about the journey... and finding the grace along the way.

Intuitive Drawing

Painter and mixed media artist, Shari Epstein writes this week's post for our Artist as Collector series.

Untitled
Charcoal on paper
10" x 10"
©2012MeriBourgard
Collection of Shari Epstein

Meri Bourgard has one of the most fascinating processes to produce her drawings. 


It is entirely intuitive. She begins with gestural marks which she accentuates or erases at will. Eventually something emerges from the surface--a hand, a head, an object. She then develops it by feeling what it is attached to or in what environment it rests. Often these images seem like they are from times past--a woman in a long dress or wearing a hat. Her drawings seem to me like ghosts that she has captured and expressed on paper.