Pollinator

 I've been having a lot of fun painting these days.  It's been such a stressful, if creative, year.  The Visionary Arts Show at Stevens Gallery was a great success, highlighting the work of 20 of Tucson's visionary artists along with the Red Book of Carl Jung,  as were the talks by Charles Gillespie, Kathy Keler, and myself.  But it was a lot of work!  And I was delighted that my workshops were so successful too!

But for the first time in many months, I've had some time to myself to just go in the studio and play.

I decided to just paint whatever I felt like painting.  No post modern angst, no effort at deep meaning either, I would just paint.  What arose immediately was the desire to fill my walls with more Butterflies.

And........... this image, which has haunted me for years, and finally I was able to paint a new variation on it.

I call this the "Pollinator".  In truth, it's actually a Prayer, a visual Prayer I make for myself, and for other creatives.  It goes something like this:

"May the works of my hands, words, and creative mind emanate from me,  like butterflies,  pollinating the flowering imaginations of those they touch".

So may it be.