It is still progressing.
As we get older, we tend to settle into more comfortable with familiar thoughts and habits, which can make us more hesitant or resistant to change.A few month ago, I had a blood test at the hospital, and the results weren’t very encouraging. The doctor strongly urged me to exercise,
Change of Mind Musings
What a time to be thinking about and creating art reflecting on Change of Mind. In my history as an artist I have only created a few political pieces. There will be more in my future. My brain has been on fire since the election so many powerful thoughts feelings
Changing minds
Some of my artwork involves trying to get viewers to think, and possibly change their minds a bit. I make work about situations that bother me, and that I wish were different. I’ve done a series of quilts about victims of the war in Ukraine, and another collection about gun
Chemo Brain
15 years ago, the world as I knew it changed dramatically with the diagnosis of breast cancer. This rattled me deeply. What followed was a course of racing thoughts of what’s to come: heavy treatments to fight the disease. However, the day the doctor confirmed the diagnosis, it made my
The Autumn Sky
“A woman’s heart is like the autumn sky” is a Japanese proverb that describes something that can easily change. Regardless of women’s (men’s)feelings, the changeable nature of the seasons is related. With such changing seasons, Japan can also be said to be a nation that is good at changing its
Collective change of mind
Birds changing their mind
And the stitches became loose coins…
Having just the turn of the month of September to create a piece for this prompt, I had just received a large piece of cloth that had traveled to me from my brother while in Japan. With a few smaller lengths of the beautiful fabric the parcel shared what could
Miss Piggybank Is Hungry
Almost everyone can remember having a piggybank of some sort, collecting loose change, pretty coins, saving up allowance, – and putting effort into occasionally trying to pry something out again. Once it was opened, the delight to sort the money by size or color, and learning the actual value of
4-9 Change of Mind
Changing our minds happens constantly as we come to a decision about any matter. A Change of Mind is us attempting to exert control on our lives, responding to the stimulus or inputs we receive from our world. It can be the little things, like what shoes to wear for
Two Sides of The Same Coin
It’s in the coins where I found inspiration I remembered many stories in my life which featured coins Every Christmas when we were young children, we would visit our grandfather, Roland. He gave us each three precious bright pennies and an orange! In 1991 after the First Gulf War, we
Now For The Weak
Loose change is the small money that people don’t pay much attention to and put in their pockets or other place. When I went shopping overseas, I didn’t know the value of coins, so I opened my coin case wide and asked the cashier to select them for me. I