a day of sharing words

"we get so caught up in the furry of our lives

that we forget the essential thing about art-

that the act of creating is a healing gesture,

as sacred as prayer,

as essential to the spirit as food is to the body

our creative work reveals us to ourselves,

allows to transform our experience

and imagination into forms that

sing back to us in a language of

symbol of who we are,

what we are becoming,

what we have loved and feared.

this is the alchemy of creation:

that as i attempt to transmute a feeling or a thought

into and artistic form that can be

experienced by another,

i myself am added to,

change in the process."

jan phillips

photos from my weekend trip to owen sound

it was truly a creative time which changed me

thanks to lk ludwig for starting this idea

(see previous post)