Friday, April 13, 2012

Artfest Spillings



I know a powerful experience when I continue to revisit the memories,

to mine the gold that comes of a deep well, to ponder on

the relationships started in just a short bit of time,

to wonder at the creative explosion that happens

when like meets like.




And so was my time at Artfest.   I put the 'trades' made by 

others into a small Moleskine journal.  Now it, too spills open




with evidence of creative hearts wanting to share.




Pages overflow with as many trades as will fit.




I was reunited with Kim and Heidi, my Journalfest friends.




How luck Maya Avineri was to join her mother, Orly for the retreat and to take classes. 

I couldn't help but wonder how my life would have been different had I 

joined my mother at an art retreat.  Though these are fleeting wanderings

of the mind for I am quite content to have found art at all.  And I 

remember my dear grandmother Iwataki who wrote poetry 

but began painting at the age of 74.  



For now, my little journal sits on my kitchen counter

smiling open, a touchstone of a magical time.



 Spring in Redondo Beach


Wishing you a lovely weekend.

XXO


5 comments:

  1. Your journal of trades looks so inviting, I want to dive in and explore every page. Love the picture of you, Kim and Heidi!

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  2. Oh that's wonderful Irene. Your journal book looks so full of life and love. Thanks for sharing.

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  3. we posted our trade journals on the same day. lol, yours looks like it's bursting with so much creativity. LOVE IT.

    oh i ordered that glue thru amazon already, but thank you. miss you much Heidi

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  4. beautiful. just beautiful. i have yet to do that with all my trades, that still sit on my table so i can pick them up every once in a while and rewind the awesomeness of artfest.... so so happy we had an opportunity to meet and chat and laugh... hope our paths cross again

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  5. I just now see your post Irene...so beautiful, so touching. Pure magnificence of a journal, pictures, sentiments...you are such a poet living a poetic life. Maya's picture along with your accompanying words just brought tears to my eyes. Love Franchesca too. Love you.

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