“….The profound yet delightful weirdness of being in a body..” – ‘Vibrant Matter: A Political Ecology of Things’
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Quote, Vincent Van Gogh
“I am an artist…It’s self-evident that what that word implies is looking for something all the time without ever finding it in full. It is the opposite of saying, ‘I know all about it. I’ve already found it.’ As far as I’m concerned, the word means, ‘I am looking. I am hunting for it. I am deeply involved.'”
Quote, Egon Schiele
“I must see new things and investigate them. I want to taste dark water and see crackling trees and wild winds.”
Quote, Ansel Adams
“The whole world is, to me, very much ‘alive’ – all the little growing things, even the rocks. I can’t look at a swell bit of grass and earth, for instance, without feeling the essential life – the things going on – within them. The same goes for a mountain, or a bit of ocean, or a magnificent piece of old wood”
— Ansel Adams
Another new painting…
Started another new painting, while deliberating over the last one – the ideas don’t hang around forever, and besides, I’m itching to get on to it.
Poem, William Blake
I went to the Garden of Love,
And saw what I never had seen;
A Chapel was built in the midst,
Where I used to play on the green.
And the gates of this Chapel were shut,
And ‘Thou shalt not’ writ over the door;
So I turned to the Garden of Love
That so many sweet flowers bore.
And I saw it was filled with graves,
And tombstones where flowers should be;
And Priests in black gowns were walking their rounds,
And binding with briars my joys & desires.
Quote, Michel de Montaigne
“In my opinion, the most ordinary things, the most common and familiar, if we could see them in their true light, would turn out to be the grandest miracles.”
— Michel de Montaigne, ‘On Experience’
JANE FRANCIS 