A creative flower curating a simple, artistic life.
The sky was slowly darkening and the seagulls that populated Whitehead were starting to fly away in different directions or perch themselves in hidden nooks and crannies. As for myself, I had finished working on a new drawing and had leaned back against the coarse rock-like cliff to drift off to the sounds of the [...]
I’ve returned to Monhegan Island, Maine and I vowed to do way more drawing than the challenge of doing at least five (or was it eight?) finished artworks before the season ended. Taking what I’ve learned from experience last year, I packed light on the art gear, settling only for my pouch containing my tools [...]
After leaving my previous job and ending the chapter, it was time for another adventure. But I wanted this adventure to be a special one to celebrate Earth Day. Not to mention that my overworked hands and feet needed some TLC and I longed to dip them into a more... natural source of water. So [...]
So yesterday I had a moment of spontaneity. I had received a wide angle lens from KEH Camera and I was testing it out in the rooms of my parents’ house because I wanted to see if I could practice doing some photography for real estate. As expected, the photos didn’t turn out very good, [...]
For the first time in several days, the weather in north Florida decided to cooperate and become fair again. My mood was in a deep hole of depression and anger for days and I knew I had to leave the house for fresh air and sunshine. So, after a warm shower, I got dressed, hopped [...]
The day before yesterday, I had a depressive episode (or meltdown, whatever you wish to call it) and raged for about two hours that morning. I’ve been feeling like that for days and I knew that having outbursts like that were not only unhealthy, but irritating to the other occupants of the house. I knew [...]
A little over a week has passed since I completed my seasonal job over on Monhegan Island, a remote island located an hour away from the state of Maine. So many things have happened during my time on the island, but a couple of things stood out the most as the days flew by. For [...]
I’ve been photographing on rolls of film for long time, ever since I developed my first roll of film in college. But the process of shooting on film with one of my cameras, developing the film and scanning in the negatives was a lengthy process that, at the time, I didn’t have the time for. [...]
It was time to return to the mainland due to me missing its convenience for several weeks. But today, the weather wasn’t cooperating with the many ships out at sea and a viscous fog hung menacingly over the ocean. No amount of visibility from the island for miles away. That didn’t stop the captain of [...]
*Credit: Image by David Gunter Jackson.* August is here and I’ve been finding myself cramming some drawing and painting into my free time as much as possible. Maybe it’s because I feel that the time is passing by quickly and each day feels exactly the same on the island. But I do know that my [...]
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