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DeGrazia Gallery Courtyard — Shadows On The Wall   Leave a comment

DeGrozia Gallery

DeGrozia GalleryDeGrazia Gallery In The Sun Courtyard Images by kenne

Designed by the artist

for pieces of his art

becoming the whole 

of his art.

kenne

 

My Painted Lady   7 comments

Nogales“Painted Lady Butterfly” — Image by kenne

I am a painted lady.
I am a glancing kiss.
I am a song of gratitude.
I am more than a face.
I am painted for pleasure.
I am delicate and beautiful.
I am your secret diversions.

kenne

Dancing Water Muses   3 comments

Tucson Folk Festival 2013

ever festivalTucson Folk Festival 2013
has dancing muses

dancing
because that’s what they do —

I know, I was there
feeling the energy

creative energy 
calling
the dancing muse

she appears
always colorful,
always free

not confined
to life’s rules

an expression of life
streaming
feelings of Duende

down the centuries
from the ancient muse,
Terpsichore

we drink
the playful spirit

delighting
a perpetual thirst

plucking the chords
inside the soul

— kenne

Tucson Folk Festival 2013Images Captured At The Tucson Fold Festival by kenne

 

Overheard At The Tucson Folk Festival   6 comments

Tucson Folk Festival 2013 Fitzsimmons Art28th Annual Tucson Folk Festival Art Done By The Arizona Daily Star Cartoonist, David Fitzsimmons

Two skeletons were lying in the sun
at the Tucson Folk Festival
one saying to the other,
“yea, but it’s dry heat!”

Warming Up At The Tucson Folk Festival   3 comments

Tucson Folk Festival 2013

Tucson Folk Festival 2013Images by kenne

The 28th annual Tucson Folk Festival began yesterday — five stages and over 500 musicians. Not only is there plenty of music, but workshops, arts & crafts, food and children’s show. This little girl was playing in the fountain  in El Presidio Park where one of the stages is located. Her mother, carrying the youngest of three, followed her around taking joyful photos. After awhile it felt good to warm up in the sun.

More postings to come on this annual event in the Old Pueblo.

kenne

2013

Painting A Painted Lady   3 comments

NogalesPainted Lady Butterfly — Image by kenne

Capturing The Moment — Tucson Street Scene   Leave a comment

4th Avenue Street Fair Spring 2013

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4th Avenue Spring Street Fair — Images by kenne

Wheel Stuck In Time   5 comments

Sedona & Talking Stick Resort“Wheel Stuck In Time” — Image by kenne

The tolling bell
Measures time not our time, rung by the unhurried
Ground swell, a time
Older than the time of chronometers, older
Than time counted by anxious worried women
Lying awake, calculating the future,
Trying to unweave, unwind, unravel
And piece together the past and the future,
Between midnight and dawn, when the past is all deception,
The future futureless, before the morning watch
When time stops and time is never ending

— from T.S. Eliot’s “The Dry Salvages”

Chapel Of The Holy Cross, Sedona, Arizona   3 comments

Sedona & Talking Stick ResortImages of the Chapel of The Holy Cross, Sedona, Arizona by kenne

Sedona & Talking Stick ResortInside the Chapel

Sedona & Talking Stick ResortChapel Entrance with Cathedral Rock In The Background

Sedona & Talking Stick ResortView from the Road Below the Chapel

Sedona & Talking Stick ResortRed Rock Panorama View From Behind The Chapel of The Holy Cross

The Now — Revisited (July 2010)   2 comments

Self-portrait

The Now

(In the Zen of the now,
past and future exist as one in art.)

Living for the moment
Creates a false state of being,
Of setting you free.
Forget the moment, live for the now.

Being in the moment is to
Have a beginning and an end,
Boundaries in which you cannot be free.
Forget the moment, live for the now.

Having a beginning and an end
Is to not have a past or a future,
Without which you cannot be free.
Forget the moment, live for the now.

Self-fulfilling nature of the moment
Creates a fear of the unknown,
To fear the unknown is to not be free.
Forget the moment, live for the now.

Experiencing the now is to
Know the past and learn of the future,
Releasing fear and setting you free.
Forget the moment, live for the now.

Learning takes place only in the now
Containing life’s recipe (the past),
And future directions to being free.
Forget the moment, live for the now.

Giving of the now
Is to create a future,
In which you can be free.
Forget the moment, live for the now.

Living for the now is to give worth
To the past and value to the future,
A future of being free.
Forget the moment, live for the now.

Living in the now is to experience
Love and life’s peak experiences,
By which others can be free.
Forget the moment, live for the now.

kenne

(1st poster July 2010 — Click here to learn about the Lessons of Now)

Tlaquepaque Arts & Crafts Village, Sedona   3 comments

Sedona & Talking Stick ResortTlaquepaque Arts & Crafts Village, Sedona
— Image by kenne

Ted DeGrazia’s “The Way of The Cross”   5 comments

images-1images-2On this Easter Sunday it was fitting that the Arizona Daily Star have a cover story on one of its best known artist, Ted DeGrazia. His version of the Stations of the Cross, “Way of the Cross”,  now hangs as a seasonal, Lenten display at DeGrazia Gallery

Every since moving to Tucson , Joy and I love going to the gallery. It is one of the places we take all out visitors. 

“Religion is within yourself and you don’t have to go to church and you don’t have to be one of those people who goes every Sunday.” Ted DeGrazia

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“I feel that if ‘The Way of the Cross’ happened, then it was felt by everybody on the face of the Earth. Here in Arizona we have saguaros, so I chose to use the symbol of the saguaro to place it here. And I’m sure it happened everywhere.” — Ted DeGrazia

kenne

 

Arizona Sycamore In Oak Creek Canyon   7 comments

Sedona & Talking Stick Resort

Arizona Sycamore In Oak Creek Canyon (March, 2013) — Image by kenne

high clouds

cover

leafless sycamores

outlines

drawn over a 

gentle sunlight

black and white

against the sky

a spiritual moment

calls spring’s 

new energy

water

in the creek

runs

through the

canyon

born again

cycles

again

again and

again

— kenne

Capturing The Moment — Fairy Duster and Bee   7 comments

Esperero Trail Wildflowers Spring 2013

Fairy Duster Wildflower and Visiting Bee — Image by kenne

The fairy duster
loves to dance

moving to the beat
of the breeze

she attracts
dancing partners —
passing bees.

kenne

California Poppy Art   2 comments

Italian Springs 2013

Image by kenne

Is this poppy art,

or just poppycock?

I don’t know,

do you?

I know,

my questions

are just

bullshit!

kenne