A Focused Journey: Finding a focus on the other side of 50.

I believe everyone’s life has a purpose. We are here to discover that purpose then use whatever gifts were bestowed upon us to make this world a better place. Some of us are fortunate as we know at an early age what that purpose is. Others, well, we go along, often digressing from the road that will take us there. This is me. Now on the other side of 50, I am finding my way back to that road that will lead to my life’s purpose. Welcome to my journey.

Sunday, March 5, 2017

Getting out into the Fog

I'm particularly draw to this barn with it's white peeling paint and unusual green tile roof. Noticing the fog as it rolled in after an unusually warm January day, I had my husband drive by this farm so I could capture it before it disappeared as the fog quickly blanketed the field.. He pulled over and waited as I snapped a few shots while trying to avoid getting muddy from the potholes filled with melted snow and mud.

Several of my goals for 2017 include using more of my own photographs in my art and practicing my layering technique. As easy it it from some I struggle with creating layers and covering up straight edges. I arrange and rearrange various papers, fibers and ribbons until my head screams, "It's not rocket science for goodness sake!"

And then Allistair showed up offering his ideas.

Completed piece

9 x 12 watercolor paper

The final layering

Joining in at Art Journal Journey with this month's theme: Out and About

6 comments:

froebelsternchenMarch 5, 2017 at 11:00 AM
An amazing piece with your own photo - the layering is superb and I love the colors and textures! It's beautiful - and great that your red cat gave you advice -- well done ! This barn in the fog is just amazing and the quote fits the layout perfectly!
Thank you very much dear Diane for such a wonderfu entry linked to Art Journal Journey!
I wish you a good start into the new week!
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Susi
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2amscrapperMarch 5, 2017 at 2:20 PM
fabulous and texture in your layering--wonderful photo
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MeggymayMarch 5, 2017 at 4:56 PM
An awesome page using your photo of the barn in the fog.. The textures and materials you added to frame the photo look fantastic .
It was fun to see your cat had to get in the photo as well.
Yvonne
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My name is Erika.March 5, 2017 at 8:06 PM
This is gorgeous. What a fantastic photo and you made a great background for it.
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SharonMarch 8, 2017 at 10:21 AM
Great mixed media piece! I'm looking for ways to incorporate my photography into art and this is a great way to do it.
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WendyKMarch 23, 2017 at 12:15 PM
Lovely page with great use of different materials.
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THE JOURNEY

One day you finally knew
what you had to do, and began,
though the voices around you
kept shouting
their bad advice--
though the whole house
began to tremble
and you felt the old tug
at your ankles.
"Mend my life!"
each voice cried.
But you didn't stop.
You knew what you had to do,
though the wind pried
with its stiff fingers
at the very foundations,
though their melancholy
was terrible.
It was already late
enough, and a wild night,
and the road full of fallen
branches and stones.
But little by little,
as you left their voices behind,
the stars began to burn
through the sheets of clouds,
and there was a new voice
which you slowly
recognized as your own,
that kept you company
as you strode deeper and deeper
into the world,
determined to do
the only thing you could do--
determined to save
the only life you could

The Dark Night Of The Soul
By Saint John of the Cross
Translated by A.Z. Foreman

Songs of the soul rejoicing at having achieved the high state of perfection, the Union with God, by way of spiritual negation.

Once in the dark of night,
Inflamed with love and wanting, I arose
(O coming of delight!)
And went, as no one knows,
When all my house lay long in deep repose

All in the dark went right,
Down secret steps, disguised in other clothes,
(O coming of delight!)
In dark when no one knows,
When all my house lay long in deep repose.

And in the luck of night
In secret places where no other spied
I went without my sight
Without a light to guide
Except the heart that lit me from inside.

It guided me and shone
Surer than noonday sunlight over me,
And lead me to the one
Whom only I could see
Deep in a place where only we could be.

O guiding dark of night!
O dark of night more darling than the dawn!
O night that can unite
A lover and loved one,
Lover and loved one moved in unison.

And on my flowering breast
Which I had kept for him and him alone
He slept as I caressed
And loved him for my own,
Breathing an air from redolent cedars blown.

And from the castle wall
The wind came down to winnow through his hair
Bidding his fingers fall,
Searing my throat with air
And all my senses were suspended there.

I stayed there to forget.
There on my lover, face to face, I lay.
All ended, and I let
My cares all fall away
Forgotten in the lilies on that day.

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Sunday, March 5, 2017

Getting out into the Fog

Completed piece

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