Fix your thoughts on what is true, and honorable, and right, and pure, and lovely, and admirable. Think about things that are excellent and worthy of praise. — Philippians 4:8 The spice rising from my tea, the cello strings that speak every emotion, the first release of paint on page —bird, feather, petal, sky —Continue reading “The Lovely Thoughts”
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Wonderful Works
They speak of the glorious splendor of your majesty— and I will meditate on your wonderful works. —Psalm 145:5 Inked lines & a swash of paint, and I am overwhelmed by a parcel of grace — the gift of creating stills me to praise the Maker of all good. —C.L. Fisher, August 2022 Unless otherwiseContinue reading “Wonderful Works”
Hued Praises
If you see my art-space — crumbled paper towels like tie-dyed bundles, shavings from my many graphite pencils, gnawed eraser ends, everything dusted in charcoal and dotted with tints and ink — you might think, “Such a mess!” But it is a welcoming place to begin something gloriously imperfect; even great failures teach me somethingContinue reading “Hued Praises”
Hued Memories
I’ve been dreaming in florals, swirling petals, long and elegant stems that sway in some far away garden, hints of darkened blossoms taking shape, hued memory awakening me to paint. —C.L. Fisher, September 2021 Unless otherwise indicated, all writings and images are the work of C.L. Fisher and may not be copied, used, or distributedContinue reading “Hued Memories”
Clarity
“I experience a period of frightening clarity in those moments when nature is so beautiful. I am no longer sure of myself, and the paintings appear as in a dream.” ― Vincent Van Gogh Van Gogh knew the value of blue, the gift of sunny blooms, the elegant, refracted texture of light — and IContinue reading “Clarity”
A Poet’s Release
Unraveling words that speak, an exhalation that saves me before suffocating in the thick folds of life…what I can’t escape becomes like woolen drapes enclosing a cramped space, and I stare into that darkness until some part of me breaks, a release that pulls me out into the airy translucence of sun where all poetryContinue reading “A Poet’s Release”
Leavings
A crumpled page of some fragmented composition, a canvas with one lone stoke washed upon it, a partially molded bit of clay, a tattered bolt of forgotten cloth, an unraveling of yarn where the needles stopped….Art abandoned becomes a message of its own, the leavings of a heart, expression left untold. —C.L. Fisher, March 2021Continue reading “Leavings”
Poetic Meanderings 