Prickly Pear Blossom — Painting by kenne
“. . . the truth is that as soon as you start walking,
all that noise, all those rumours, fade out.
What’s new? Nothing:
the calm eternity of things, endlessly renewed.”
— Frédéric Gros
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Prickly Pear Blossom On A Morning Walk Leave a comment
Blooming Palo Verdes In Sabino Canyon Leave a comment
Blooming Palo Verdes in Sabino Canyon — Painting by kenne
There’s a circle in the canyon
around which we teach kids
about nature and its many cycles.
— kenne
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Black Headed Grosbeak — Grunge Art Leave a comment
Black Headed Grosbeak — Grunge Art by kenne
No valid plans for the future
can be made by those who
have no capacity for living now.
— Alan Watts
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I Am A Desert Trail Leave a comment
Dark Desert Grassland — Computer Painting by kenne
I am a desert trail
wondering
through dark grasslands
alone
but not lonely
clothed
with gladness
embraced
by the
mountain ranges
I separate the grass
providing
a sandy channel
for mountain rains
to clean
the desert soul
never
to be wash away.
— kenne
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Humphreys Peak In Northern Arizona– Computer Painting by kenne
Find high ground
in northern Arizona,
panning the horizon
in a 360 degree view,
you will always see
her presence —
the peak above
the San Francisco Peaks.
kenne
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Sunset By The Tanque Verde Wash Leave a comment
Sunset By The Wash — Computer Painting by kenne
Thou that hast giv’n so much to me,
Give the thing more, a gratefull heart;
See how Thy beggar works in Thee
By art:
He makes thy gifts occasion more
And says, if he in this be crost,
All Thou hast given him heretofore
Is lost.
— George Herbert
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Female Phainopepla Painting Leave a comment
Female Phainopepla — Computer Painting by kenne
The cool wind blew in my face
and all at once I felt as if I had
shed dullness from myself.
Before me lay a long gray line
with a black mark down the center.
The birds were singing.
It was spring.
— Burl Ives
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Cooper’s Hawk Painting Leave a comment
Cooper’s Hawk — Computer Painting by kenne
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“Man In Boat” — Computer Painting by kenne
For Whom The Bell Tolls
No man is an island,
Entire of itself.
Each is a piece of the continent,
A part of the main.
If a clod be washed away by the sea,
Europe is the less.
As well as if a promontory were.
As well as if a manner of thine own
Or of thine friend’s were.
Each man’s death diminishes me,
For I am involved in mankind.
Therefore, send not to know
For whom the bell tolls,
It tolls for thee.
— John Donne
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Western Bluebird Painting Leave a comment
Western Bluebird — Computer Painting by kenne
When you find yourself
out on a limb alone
it’s best to be a bird.
— kenne
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Abandoning All False Dichotomies Leave a comment
Self Portrait — Computer Painting by kenne
In his book, The Naked Now: Learning to See as the Mystics, Richard Rohr writes about third-eye seeing, which allows for a co-equal footing of the first eye (the physical sense of sight) and the second eye (the eye of thinking, reasoning and reflecting). The Mystics build upon the first two eyes by affirming their fundamental connection in such a way to avoid the simplistic symmetry of dualities. The resulting connection is what Rohr calls, “presence.”
“It is experienced as a moment of deep inner connection,
and it always pulls you, intensely satisfied,
into the naked and undefended now,
which can involve both profound joy
and profound sadness at the very same time,” Rohr writes.
By abandoning all false dichotomies, the captured moment can be viewed in the presence, which I have referred to as “the now” in earlier postings. The further we travel inward the more everything appears to merge into an inexpressible, but nevertheless real, sense of oneness with the world around us.
— kenne
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A Shadow Companion — Computer Painting by kenne
Shadow on the wall
a mark soon to fade,
escaping
with the setting sun.
Still-life in the darkness
the magic of light gone,
missing
it’s a shadow companion.
Captured and marked
by pixeled contrast,
painting
with a digital palette.
— kenne
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New Orleans — Sensitivity 4 comments
Computer Painting (New Orleans, December 2014) and video by kenne
I was born on the edge of the big muddy flow
my daddy was French, my mother creole
I’m slow and heavy underneath the sun
but I’m more than willing when the night time comes
I’m a well known street, I’m a marching drum
I’m a dancer, a preacher, a sophisticated bum
I’m a wild tchapatoula, a dice rolling judge
I’m a barker tryin’ to fool you into a late night club
I am the Big Easy I been hit by a storm
brought to my knees have mercy lord
I got soul I got heart
all alone I’m coming out of the dark
I am the Big Easy
— from I am The Big Easy by Ray Bonneville
Video: Ray Bonneville, “I am the Big Easy,” Ken & Mary’s Blues Project, Porter, Texas, November 2009.
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I Paint What I See Leave a comment
Computer Painting by kenne
The meaning of a word
— to me — is not as exact
as the meaning of a color.
Colors and shapes
make a more definite
statement than words.
— Georgia O’Keeffe
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Christmas ’05 Still Life — Computer Painting by kenne
“We do not “come into” this world;
we come out of it, as leaves from a tree.”
— Alan Watts
