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Monastery Icons, America's largest supplier of icons and incense, has begun its official blog, in order to keep enthusiasts of Monastery Icons informed about the latest discounts, the newest sacred art, stories of the feasts of the Church, and lives of the saints.
I am seeking local artists and artisans for a series of interviews I hope to publish on this website.
If you would like to participate please email me. Thanks! This could be a neat project.
Dear Fellow Voxers.
I am a local published poet seeking to build my journalistic skills. I am looking for composers, artists and artisans to interview and photograph. The work would be published on my Vox site. My only requirement is that you use your real name and that I get to hang out in your workspace for a few hours, ask you questions and photograph your process. A link will be provided to your website. Art includes includes sculpting, wood carving, photography, painting, dance and theater. Artisans include jewelry-makers, potters, wood-turners and more. Composers include instrumental music, as well as singer-songwriters. I will select the work that most speaks to me, so I can write effectively about it.
This could be the start of something beautiful...
Lucy Simpson
see all the photos from this shoot,if you're so inclined.
(memories always look better in black and white, I think.)
There are several interesting shots in color, as well, where I walked up and down the campsite taking pictures of the flowers and tall grasses from weird angles...those look really abstract and they'd make awesome art on the walls.
Check them out and let me know what you think! :)
LisA**
There are moments when one peers into the face of the future and it is so good and so fine and it completely makes clarity of what must be done right now. The past is a trickster and we have to reckon with it, tinkering around with it to pull out the good and relinquish that which hinders.
This is titled "Cusp". It is watercolor with ink and pastel, 140 lb archival paper, 7″ x 10″.
"How often do you smoke?" I ask you, genuinely concerned.
"As often as I can," you reply, flicking the lighter with your thumb.
Display of light and shadow on the cave wall.
You're still wearing the Dr. Strangelove t-shirt.
"Why do you ask?" You say, raising the bowl to your lips.
"You're so scatterbrained, only potheads are that scatterbrained," I say.
You laugh. "I have been scatterbrained, maybe I should take a hiatus."
"You deserve a hiatus from your life," I say.
"Is that why we're in a cave in France smoking a bowl?"
"Yes, it's nice and cool in here and I wanted to talk with you--
this is the only way you would stop what you were doing and talk with me."
"What was I doing?" You ask, amused.
"I have no idea, you were probably emailing all of your girlfriends."
"Just as you were emailing all of your boyfriends?" You say and laugh.
"Fair enough." I take the bowl into my left hand and flick the lighter with my right.
"Is this a poem?" You ask me, raising an eyebrow.
"I suppose it is a poem, we're being a poem again."
"What happens next?" You lean in, looking for the gold flecks in my pupils.
"I think we're going to make love, high, in the cave," I say, slipping off my shirt...
There are so many things that can go wrong in a fraction of a second. And when happiness tilts, is hope there? Sometimes it is our children, the ones we guard and cherish, who created an amazing, inverse reality: our little ones become our hope and our light. Who lights your way?
8 3/4″ x 14 1/2. You can also see it here.
Monastery Icons has added an instructive video to YouTube entitled Monastery Icons: How an Icon is Painted. It is a time-lapsed video showing the various stages in icon painting, from conception to completion. The icon shown in this video is a Byzantine style icon of the Holy Family.
For more information on icon painting, visit the Squidoo lens How to Paint an Icon – Learn Byzantine Iconography
