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Nashville, TN - October 10th, 2013
This is something that’s been on my mind lately and I wanted to write about it, even if it’s only for myself, to go back and read when I need a little inspiration. You hear a lot of expressions about opportunity as if it’s something out there that you have to find or wait until it knocks on your door. But what if it doesn’t? I used to suffer a lot from feeling like I have been presented with more hardships than opportunities in my life. Everything I have ever gotten was with my own hard work and efforts. Or as I like to refer to it with sweat, blood and tears. I’ve started working and supporting myself from a young age and I never really had a chance to go to college or to just take a time out, to reflect, discover myself and what I really wanted to do with my life. In 2008 I went through a lot of soul searching and growth, it was not an easy process, one filled with many ...
Nashville, TN - October 3rd, 2013
Original Oil Painting “One” What it represents to me. What it means to me is acceptance, of the world, of the way things are, in all its complexity. Even if I don’t understand a lot of things. It’s about learning that in life things of opposite nature live close side by side and without one you cannot have the other: Ying and Yang, female and male, negative and positive, dark and light, opulence and poverty, life and death. I was thinking a lot about dualities and my attitude towards it. A few years ago, I was invited to a party, in someone’s home or what seemed more like a museum/castle. This person seemed to have the whole world and all that is available in it – the best! Family, money that will never run out, social standing, good health, looks… I was happy and grateful to be invited of course…but afterwards for several days it had an interesting effect on me…something...
Nashville, TN - September 25th, 2013
As the weather was absolutely gorgeous on this past Sunday, I couldn't imagine doing anything else other than being outside, enjoying some sunshine as the summer comes to an end. As I was biking, making frequent stops at the places that I liked, I noticed that the church buildings were drawing me in, I wanted to study them, take photos of them and contemplate in my peaceful moments of warm sun and solitude. I love those moments, when I just feel happy, peaceful, grateful and in touch with my mind, body and spirit. Those moments in time can occur anywhere and under various conditions. Sometimes I can be hiking alone in the park, sitting on a park bench or working on one of my paintings. I didn't go inside the church, but I definitely felt what I can only describe as a spiritual experience. I felt a surge of gratitude, not for anything in particular, but just to be, being alive, livin...
Light At The End Of The Tunnel
Nashville, TN - September 18th, 2013
I am fascinated with arches, tunnels, cave openings and anything that suggest going through darkness towards the light. Why? I came up with a title for a body of work that is called: "Light at the End of the Tunnel" which symbolizes my own life experience. Everyone on Earth has a different life experience, yet, we're all able to relate on some levels. Overcoming struggles, obstacles, our own demons and self-made limitations. It takes courage to walk through the darkness, sometimes when you can't even see the light, just with sheer hope alone, knowing that the light will be there. I think it's important to have hope and to have dreams. And no matter what to never stop moving towards something, new goal, interest or just finding peace within. Art definitely became my outlet and my light at the end of the tunnel. I needed that to resurrect the hope within me for better future and bet...
Nashville, TN - September 17th, 2013
This photo was taken not far from downtown Nashville. It made me think of making a choice and seeing beauty in every day things. There is a lot of construction going on, old things get torn down, new buildings rise up faster than I notice sometimes. You have nice neighborhoods and houses that are very close to things that have been standing there for a while, getting old. But I think it's important to accept even the old and not the most attractive things and finding beauty, even in them. Kind of like this barb wire and the contrast it creates, when paired with beautiful blue skies and those vibrant yellow flowers.
