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February 2010’s FEATURED ARTIST: Jordan Marsh

Quote of the Month

No one would opt to go to hell if it didn’t look really good getting there. May we think of all the avenues taken. ~ Denise Williams

Thought of the Month

I have taken many roads in my life, many leading straight to hell although for many moments, I thought surely I was on my way to heaven. When I have been at my richest, I found myself poorest; strongest, weakest; wealthiest, impoverished; fullest of myself, emptiest; best, worst; and all the opposites. An example of this irony came at the first moment my eyes saw a glimpse of truth in 1985.

I found myself:

Haggling with a man who had no shoes so I might have more of what he had to offer though I had no need and he did.
The man with no shoes understood and cared more for my needs than I did his. Thus he lowered his price out of compassion for me rather than out of need for his family who had been making these carvings for generations saying he hoped my purchase [of his relief] would leave me remembering his family forever.
He blessed me with their great love. I thought him kind and wondered if he said this to everyone. . ..
I also thought him strange yet I had a feeling that I was full of myself. Having looked into his eyes, I knew I was empty and could not understand what words came from his mouth, only those from his eyes which said nothing. This I wanted for it was missing in my life only having felt it for a few minutes in ’77 and also in ‘80.
When I had no idea how to count his currency, although I suspected he might steal from me, he honestly returned my change back to me.
In his excitement of making a sell I thought, while returning my change, he made a mistake in my favor which I did not realize then.
Later that day, after learning how to count the money in Mexico, I thought someone else of similar circumstances stole from me who made no mistakes in returning my change.
Still later I discovered how the merchants at the market lived.

After my experience at the open market while dining well on my first visit, though I thought not, I wondered if it was true that restaurants reserved bread not consumed at other tables and passed it to their next customers. I ate the bread regardless and for the first time in my life wondered how many waited outside the back door of the restaurant for the food on my plate I could not eat.
I have never forgotten his eyes as we left the restaurant passing him by on his way to the back door.
Nor have I forgotten His words as he spoke with genuine concern asking if I enjoyed his family’s work, liked his country.
The loudest of all was his unspoken word which lingers with me still. This word fell as silently as a raindrop coming from and returning to a greater pool of compassion I had yet to learn. A drop which I watched for decades falling, falling, falling until I felt its splash just a year ago dropping on my forehead with a splash, a plurp, causing me to jump.
In 1985, May 5, the first time in my life I knew what it was to feel shame.
For the first time in my life, I knew humility and was humbled by his.
At this moment I knew what I must become: HIM.
To this day, when I eat, I think of him and the billions like him, and those less fortunate who are like me on that day. I think of hunger having known it since and those who have forgiven in me that day what I have not been able to forgive in myself. I look at the world which falls apart economically and pray for food and manna a.k.a. dharma food for not only my soul, but for all.

For more than 25 years I fear the man cried silently when he realized his error of my change which may have been the reason his family might not have eaten again that night save for what he found at the backdoor of that restaurant if everyone who visited his stand had been like me who followed the rule of: Haggle or they will think you’re stupid. I cannot still believe my outward appearance to others would have been that important to me – wanting to be smart. . ..
For more than 25 years, I have come to realize through this man who Jesus was.
For more than 25 years, I have hoped that I will one day be that rich.

After that day, my new husband nor I ever haggled again. It was the beginning of something, but we did not know what. In our divorce, I gave him all the great works we collected and kept that piece purchased for less than $5.00 USD. It is my most cherished piece for it has the history of generations working in the same hand.

My husband, now my ex, both received a great gift from a man who had no shoes. . .. A gift as in a drop from an ocean far greater than we, an ocean we both wish to be a part of.

The irony? I had asked to have a great love bestowed upon us both on our Honeymoon – to be touched by a love rare and uncommon to this earth. I had asked for a lesser love than what was received though unrecognized for years, haunting like a dream, never forgotten though I did not realize my prayer had been answered, nor to what extent the gift came as I had been looking for love in all the wrong places and in a face other than my own realizing now the love we seek on earth is generally mistaken for something else.

~ Denise Williams
www.DeniseWilliamsArt.com

Furnishings & Décor

Lanai Gallery’s collection of artists and work continues to grow as each artist is juried in. Please view the following site for to view these new works and for more information about these fabulous all weather art works/wall reliefs! http://www.patiopizzaz.com/all_weather_artwork.html

Upcoming Shows & Events

Congratulations too:

Peggy Guichu: awarded "Outstanding Abstract" for 'Bubbles by www.fineartviews.com

Thomas Vorce’s Matisse Shadow nomination for the Black and White Spider Award within the Abstract Category

http://www.thespiderawards.com/presentation/nominations.php?x=p&cid=40

Debra Blades for the sale of

From Me to You
http://debrascollageart.com/FROMMETOYOU.html

Abigail Winston sold:

Tattered Cloud
Arching Cloud

New Releases:

Peggy Guichu has released:

Sleeping Beauties www.peggyguichu.com/works/363236
Silence www.peggyguichu.com/works/304355
Tree of Life www.peggyguichu.com/works/331108
Man Walking www.peggyguichu.com/works/331045
An Offering www.peggyguichu.com/works/295583

Carl Ellis has updated his webpage with 6 new images:

Alabaster Column
Brain
Orange Rim
Rainbow
Red Velvet
Shreds

http://www.santafeartworld.com/artists/ellis_carl/carl_ellis.html

Debra Blades has released her custom journals!
http://debrascollageart.com/JOURNALS.html

Ione Citrin has released:

Morning Runner, 40" high x 50" wide, figures mixed media on paper

http://www.artbyione.com/art/figures/morning_runner.jpg

Through A Glass Brightly, 36" high x 36" wide, figures acrylic painting insert - hexagon of tiles

http://www.artbyione.com/art/figures/through_a_glass_brightly.jpg

Self Portrait, 15" high x 11" wide, figures watercolor & fabric

http://www.artbyione.com/art/figures/self_portrait.jpg

Persephone, 20" high x 30" wide, figures watercolor on paper

http://www.artbyione.com/art/figures/persephone.jpg

Contemplation, 16" high x 20" wide, figures acrylic on canvas

http://www.artbyione.com/art/figures/contemplation.jpg

"Mardi Gras, 30" high x 20" wide, figures mixed media on paper

http://www.artbyione.com/art/figures/mardi_gras.jpg

Purple Pansies, 18" high x 24" wide, still life watercolor and collage

http://www.artbyione.com/art/still_life/purple_pansies.jpg

Waves - pair, 36" high x 18" wide, abstract acrylic & brass on canvas

http://www.artbyione.com/art/abstract/waves.jpg

Announcements:

Need a website, ad layout, photos, or anything for professional, purposes? Call Lee Klopfer at 505-310-6372 or email him at: eklopf302@aol.com and visit him at www.LeeKlopfer.com

Memorable sites: Richard Scott's Art Babel
and Memoree Joelle-Scott's The Wine Files!

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