Detail, The Voyager's Prayer

Thanks ol’ buddy kleze. Meaning to post this for awhile. Time getting slightly less precious than last month.

Many thanks, Heather.

Sande – my inspiration to post this – thank you. Floating spirits, we find them when we ask and when we need.

Many thanks to you, old friend. I’m glad you like it.

Oh Prairie, thank you so much for all you said. Your reaction to my paintings always means a great deal to me, you’ve got a deep and loving spirit. Hugs to you.

Helene, the supreme magician, many thanks.

Thank you so much, Sandra. I dream, and will someday have, a studio so large that the walls and ceiling are not visible to the naked eye. And I will run with all the speed and power in me, loaded brush in hand, to a monumentally huge canvas, hesitating only to fill my brushes from a million pots of paint in front of it, and never stop moving til I drop. Ah.

Thanks you so much, Ulrikeart. And bless you on your journeys.

David, many thanks for what you wrote. I think I painted it for myself, when I needed that kind of hug. Aren’t artists resourceful, we can fabricate and make ourselves happy doing it. And I know I was thinking about other people who needed comfort too.

Your phrasing is alway so lovely. Thank you. I don’t think I’ll ever forget “vivid freedom”. You make it sound like a way of life.

Hi rosepepper! Sorry about the computer glitches, it’s a devastating experience, how we count on these little machines! My goodness, thank you so much for your words. You’re always an education. And thanks for the note on the spaces around the figures. I see the dance of molecules, I’ve always tried to paint it. I’ve never heard the music of the spheres, but I believe I see it.

Louise, we’ve got so much untapped in us. It’s like the challenge of learning a foreign tongue. The only thing that ever really scares me, scares me deep and ancient inside, is collapse into indifference and I battle it when it appears in me.

Thanks so much, Glenn.

Thanks, Steven. I’m not sure what you mean about indifferent, I aimed for caring. Tell me.

Thanks so much, I appreciate your looking at my work.

You’re amazing, Susi. That was so fast! I was working on a calendar with Georgia on the cover, and had to upload a larger pixel-plus version, and kept checking the list: private, not for public, not for sale…and the darn thing kept popping up on the webpage ‘art’ site and I deleted it! The first time Georgia O’Keeffe was on my page 2, about the third one down, months ago. The process on RB for calendars is more complicated for me and with fewer design options, so I’ve been making them on www.zazzle.com/buccaneer (my nom de plume), and they’ve actually started selling! Thanks for like this one, and asking about GO.