Living Creativity

describes a way of life. What does choosing the creative life mean? The creative life is a commitment to stillness, receptivity, and exploration, within the limits of craft and form, renewed each day through a practice. Whether a creator’s medium is words, tones, hues, figures, fabrics, or movement, creativity receives imagination through the medium of inner stillness, then offers an outward embodied expression. Living creativity is an Art of Being.

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"The Green Poem," video first published by The Bloom, 2024.

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Poetics

My poetry orbits the image of eyes and theme of perception. Through my process, I seek to expand the horizon of my perception and to reconcile the contradictions within that area of illumination. Always motivating my work is the impulse to illuminate my experience through the creative act.

The Art Connection

My relationship with art is meditative and therapeutic. It's about reaching that space within me where I go quiet and just be. I collect items headed for the trash heap and breathe new life into them by transforming them into backyard art. These pieces are often intertwined with poems I wrote in parallel time sequence.

Living Poetry

A poem is poetry, of course. But what about a song or piece of artwork? What about a well-told story, a dancer’s moving body, twisting tree roots, or the character lines on a person’s face? Poetry is everywhere. Poetry lives in a space between two connected images, seemingly opposed, like light and dark, tragedy and comedy, life and death. The double-image co-arising, roots crawling downward, shoots reaching upward.

April 2, 2023 at Art House in Berkeley, CA; Videography by Victor Owens.

Beauty

Things do not have to be perfect to be beautiful. Like an eclectic collection of images, or a mosaic that’s much more charming with all its diverse elements all together, each piece with its own distinctive character gives a Whole Character greater beyond what any piece could offer on its own.