Paitnting of three eyes. In the center, the eye is beginning to close with a swirl of organic abstract orange shape around it with a purple background, it is flanked by bluish shapes with a flowing background, each shape as an eye looking at the center eye. Behind them are little eye shapes and gold circles
COGN: 365

Day 365

One Year Later Part 3: The End, by Nadia Daniels-Moehle. 2019. Acrylic on canvas. A project is nearly born, only a few more words, a few more strokes of brush on canvas, and CognEYEzant:365 will be finished. Finished. This week, as I sat down to write and reflect on the end of this gargantuan, year-long…

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Surreal painting of an eye looking to the left, with abstracted flowing shapes behind it including ones that look like eyes and gold circles
COGN: 365

Day 364

One Year Later Part 2, by Nadia Daniels-Moehle. 2019. Acrylic on canvas. A piece spanning the final three days of CognEYEzant:365. (Today’s part is approximately 2’x1′ took all of 10 hours to complete.)…Nearly there. 364 days done, 1 to go.

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Surreal painting of an eye looking to the right with shapes behind it, including ones that look like little eyes and gold circles
COGN: 365

Day 363

One Year Later Part 1, by Nadia Daniels-Moehle. 2019. Acrylic on canvas. A piece spanning the final three days of CognEYEzant:365. (Today’s part is approximately 2’x1′ took all of 10 hours to complete.) 363 days done, 2 to go.

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Ink illustration of a crosshatched eye with abstract organic, flowing shapes around it with horizontal lines behind it
COGN: 365

Day 362

Hopeful Burning: Inspired by Jesmyn Ward’s Quote, “I burn, and I hope.”*, by Nadia Daniels-Moehle. 2019. Ink on paper. Just over one year ago The Fire This Time (WorldCat / Bookshop), a collection of essays and poems edited by author Jesmyn Ward, lit a fire within me. A fire kindled with just five words, “I…

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Nine children in coats with the bottom half of their bodies turning into pointed lines with eyeballs for heads. They each have a different hairstyle. The style is crosshatching the background is black.
COGN: 365

Day 361

Youth of the Homo Sapiens Final Part*, by Nadia Daniels-Moehle. 2019. Ink and India ink on paper. “Youth of the Homo Sapiens” is inspired by childhood. Many of my most vivid memories are from when I was very young, perhaps because the world felt so intriguing and stable then, it still does now—but less often.…

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