Cyril Edward Power

folk dance lino cuts by Cyril Edward Power

back to the drawing board

The marvelous Marthe Armitage, found via evencleveland:

'Making takes time, commitment and training. People expect to make their fortunes at the drop of a hat these days.'

Image by Katrien de Blauwer

Ed Ruscha, Color lithograph

HAPPY VALENTINES DAY!

“It is not so incomprehensible as you pretend, sweet pea. Love is the feeling we have for those we care deeply about and hold in high regard. It can be light as the hug we give a friend or heavy as the sacrifices we make for our children. It can be romantic, platonic, familial, fleeting, everlasting, conditional, unconditional, imbued with sorrow, stoked by sex, sullied by abuse, amplified by kindness, twisted by betrayal, deepened by time, darkened by difficulty, leavened by generosity, nourished by humor and “loaded with promises and commitments” that we may or may not want or keep.

The best thing you can possibly do with your life is to tackle the motherfucking shit out of it.”
― Cheryl Strayed

(print by Adrian Henry)

Repetition

“Prints mimic what we are as humans: we are all the same and yet every one is different. I think there’s a spiritual power in repetition, a devotional quality, like saying rosaries.”

—Kiki Smith, quoted in the Daily Princetonian, December 11, 2003.

Pool of Tears 2 (after Lewis Carroll) by Kiki Smith.
Etching, aquatint, and drypoint with watercolor addition.

Seestuck

Gerhard Richter - Seestuck

Time Wasting Experiment

Genius!

simple letterpress project, by Portland based artist Alyson Provax, titled Time Wasting Experiment.

There are many to relate to, I've just picked out a few.

Worrying is time wasting. I’m moving on, and getting my minutes back!

Time you enjoy wasting however is never wasted time....

Print by ME!

Print by Kiki Smith

Tracey Emin.
a love letter above her trademark winged friends in Birds 2012, taking the Paralympic values of Inspiration and Determination as her starting point © London 2012

Katrien De Blauwe

Katrien De Blauwe's movement collages (again...because WOW.)

"Eisenstein believed that film montage could create ideas or have an impact beyond the individual images. Two or more images edited together create a "tertium quid" (third thing) that makes the whole greater than the sum of its individual parts."
--  Katrien De Blauwe
Montage theory: Eisenstein

Trisha Brown

Movement Drawings by Trisha Brown

Become the rhythm of your breath.

Folk Dance (1928) | Cyril Edward Power linocut from iswasandwillbe

At first you may only be able to progress this far by Joseph Staples / Office Supplies Incorporated

Kiki Smith, Coming Forth, 2008

Making

Along side teaching yoga I am an artist, print making and photography being my primary means of expression...although i'll try my hand at most things, ceramics is my current obsession!

The disciplines I have trained in and favor always involve lengthy processes (I think I like the process of making more then the final product!) and it is the repetitive functional movements involved in the making that keeps me present in what i'm doing. The print making and ceramics particularly require strength, an intelligent use of the body and ease-full breath to get the job done.  When it dawned on me that the physicality of the body was such a large component of what I do I became really interested in the different ways we train the body for tasks like this. I love watching musicians and artists of all kinds work. I find the movement patterns fascinating.

Print of my Grandma and polaroid's taken in Iceland and Norway.
See more work here and my inspirations here. 

Indeed.
Found here