Day 344

The Final Dispersing: Final Part of the Red String Series* Watercolor on paper This four-part series illustrates the interconnection of transitions in life. Each moment relies on our past and, perhaps, too, our future. The present carries us through life, and what we do with the present connects us to life, much like the red…

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Day 338

Grace Lin: Within the Spiral Eye Watercolor, ink, India ink on paper Stories have the power to transport us into other places, other times, and into the lives of other people. Only within stories do we even get close to becoming someone else. The sometimes fictional recounting of life and thought and emotion, the act…

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Day 331

Rajmohan Gandhi: Turning Potential into Reality Ink, India ink, watercolor, gouache on paper Nearly one year ago, spring brought out my restless self, a self who needed dedication and focus, who needed meaning and inspiration. So, I looked behind me, in my past–mostly–and there, art was set aside on a shelf, unpracticed and waiting. In…

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Day 300

Time Traveling Box and the Moonpit: Inspired by a Generous and Kind Woman and Audre Lorde’s poem “The Black Unicorn” India ink and watercolor on paper At the rummage sale that day, the kind and generous woman would never have known that she gave me the tools to time travel. Audre Lorde’s poem “The Black…

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Day 289

The Idle Mind is the Daydream’s Playground: Inspired by Bertrand Russel’s Essay “In Praise of Idleness” and Manoush Zomorodi’s Book Bored and Brilliant Watercolor, ink and India ink on paper In his essay “In Praise of Idleness,” philosopher Bertrand Russell writes of idleness’s necessary role in expansion. From experience, there is nothing more stimulating to…

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