FIELDS OF VISIONS

The Great Harvest

Oak Leaf through sunlight sparks patterns in the imagination, twigs and branches and bark and wood fires....



Poetry is Science
Leaves of Grass:  Walt Whitman comes into mind....


Who Else?

Close Up of Maple Leaf:  PRIMAL

I am picking up some favorite books~ friends and references, memories and time rewound. Then I push fast forward.  Let's open pages at random:

Mont-Saint-Michel and Chartres by Henry Adams:

"The Archangel Loved Heights...."

"Science and Art are One...."

William Blake Selected Poems:

A Cradle Song,

"Sleep Sleep beauty bright

Dreaming o'er the joys of night...."

William Butler Yeats Poetry for Young People:

* The Lake Isle of Innisfree

"I shall arise and go now, and go to Innisfree
And a small cabin build there, of clay and wattles made:
Nine bean-rows I will have there, a hive for the honey bee,
And live alone in the bee-loud glade...."

Twinning~

Basking in the afterglow of books well lived and written....

Science is Poetry

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Books:

Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman, a classic

Mont-Saint-Michele and Chartres by Henry Adams, 1905 by Henry Adams, 1933 by Charles Francis Adams, Princeton University Press, Princeton, New Jersey

William Blake Selected Poems, Gramercy Books, New York, 1999 Random House Value Publishing

William Butler Yeats Poetry for Young People, ed. Jonathan Allison and Illustrated by Glenn Harrington, Sterling Publishing Co., Inc., New York, New York, 2002

* Notes about poem:  Innisfree: "the heathery island," a small island in Lough Gill, County Sligo. "Wattles" rods and branches interwoven.

Also an Irish folk song, The Isle of Innisfree (pronounced "Innish free")

Music:

Irish Folk Music, various

Roots, Leaves, Branches: Ben Cooper, Radical Face

Neil Diamond Greatest Hits: Holly Holy , Song Sung Blue, Stones, Sooliamon

Dahlis Roy:  Visionary Artist, Author, and Tai Chi Instructor

Images: photos by Dahlis

Oak Leaf through Sunlight

Primal close up maple leaf

Twinning, maple leaves

INSPIRED BY DREAM

Healing the Earth (detail)

*  Recently my friend, Judy J. started painting again!  The magic of dreams and paint came effortlessly.  It feels so good to once again hold a brush in your hands, to mix colors and ideas with ease and joy....pride of accomplishment...

Judy:  "In my dream I saw an Angel....she was feather light and she reached out with multicolored lights and shapes of all kinds, gently touching and surrounding the Earth."  

Cosmic Concepts

Texture, Emotion, Light Rays, Night, Day:  I saw feathers and plants and insects and light and color and flowers and comets.  

Action and Tranquility Combine.... Rotating the picture, brings a non-directional "difference,"  a shift in perspective and sense of location.  

"Paint Your Dreams"

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The Artist's Handbook, Angela Clair, drawing, water color, oil painting, use of materials and techniques  

The Artist's Way, A Spiritual Path to Higher Creativity by Julia Cameron


Dahlis Roy:  Visionary Artist, Author, and Tai Chi Instructor

Images: 
Art Work,
* Inspired by Dream, Healing the Earth, acrylic painting, by Judy J., published with permission

Photos by Dahlis, close up views of painting

THE WHITE TRIANGLE

Treasure Hunt: I  found a triangle canvas in my favorite store....of course it said, "buy me!"

Unwrapping the canvas at home I thought:  What will appear?  What will I paint?  Of course it has to be unique, a focused image... special....

While waiting for directions for the picture, I hung the blank canvas in my kitchen area where I could observe the changing light!  Was I surprised!  Shadows and reflections radiated around the triangle....ever changing day and night.  Looking at a plain surface is calming, free of clutter, meditative.

Subtle shades of pale color appeared...palest lavender here...  mist and very quiet energy rays emitting from the top.

Plan, sketch, what next?  Nothing I pictured seemed to fit into the triangle shape?  

I'm on your sides~

All angles on deck...chuckle, I thought back to plane ("plain") geometry class....

Plain and Simple:  

The Blank Page

One Page Away

A Plain Canvas


Images will come and colors too in good time....their own time

Patience

Process

Speed of Light and Quiet Stillness

New Beginnings!  What will appear?


* "Letting go of certainty and embracing curiosity...."


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Resources:
*Neil DeGrasse Tyson, interview quote on Amanpour and Company, Oct 2018, PBS (USA)


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Photos by Dahlis:
White Triangles and Angle View
Sacred Geometry 

BACK AND FORTH WE GROW

Happy Birthdays!                   Birthday Girls, Silver and Blue

On Sept 23 1985 I experienced Silver, an image of moonlight reflecting on my wall and shaped like a butterfly.  Silver Butterfly was born...an inspirational symbol of creativity for painting outside the box, "paint your dreams."  I began to write bits of thoughts and sketches, later connecting the dots into short stories, and a journey book....What will be next?

I kept writing and painting, all random thoughts and subjects then and now....Next I had another meditation:  I pictured a Blue Butterfly in the upper left hand corner of a white blackboard.  I painted it "write away" so it wouldn't escape.

Later these forms nudged into a this blog called Out of the Blue.  On Sept 26, 2010, I pushed "publish" and "Blue" came to life~ 365 posts later..."back and forth we grow."

Rocky Says, "Happy Birthdays!"
There is a lavender butterfly shape on the wall pattern behind Rocky~


* "My true self has unlimited creative power." 

** "I change as I grow." 

*** "Stay Curious"



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 * "My true self has unlimited creative power." Deepak Chopra, M.D. and Oprah Winfrey, 21 Day Meditation Experiences, Day 20, Finding Your Freedom, The Energy of Attraction.  chopracentermeditation, meditations for free and for purchase.

** I change as I grow," My Little Pony Cartoons, Beneath It All, 2018

*** "Stay Curious" Why is the Color Blue so Rare in Nature? Bob Robbins, Ph.D., PBS, Feb 5, 2018, Aug 6, 2018 Facebook Watch


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Paintings by Dahlis

Silver Butterfly Create a Vision, oil painting 
Out of the Blue, Unlocking Continuous Miracles, oil painting

Photo by Zoe, published with permission

Happy Birthday Rocky!

CRYSTAL CLEAR

Crystal Light, Crystal Bright....Crystal Clear.  



When I was very young, I loved rocks and crystals.  My Mom and Dad bought me a small geology kit.  I immediately took it appart!  I carefully separated all the little samples out of the carefully secured and labeled container.  I wanted to touch the stones and hold them:  clear quartz, rose quartz, oil shale, sandstone and many more.  I also absorbed the illustrated booklet that came with the kit.  

Mountain Top with Sky, oil paint on canvas

Years later, with my parents I bought a slab of rose quartz at Carnegie Museum of Pittsburgh.  I still have it here in the room~

One of my friends names her rocks and crystals and plants.  What a great idea!  *Maud Pie, a geologist pony on the cartoon series My Little Pony also names her rocks.  Her favorite rock is Boulder.  Maud also writes poems about rocks, "They're all about rocks, I have thousands of them."

Some of the names for stones include Denim Blue and Lucinda (on loan from friends), Oren (means Owl), Olav, King Harold, Carmel Carnelian, Savannah, Flora (Fluorite), Amy Amethyst and more.

Swirls of Sunlight:  Blue Vase with Denim Blue (Blue Lace Agate) and Lucinda (Quartz).


Look Again:

A close up of Lucinda reveals hidden lights, colors, and shadows, a multidimensional experience and delight!

                                                        Shine the Light! 




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Resources:
* My Little Pony, cartoon, DHX Media, Hasbro:  Groups of ponies experience friendship patterns and life experiences.  Episodes with Maud Pie also include Rock Solid Friendship and The Maud Couple (Maud meets Mud Briar, a plant expert pony).

A Golden Guide to Rocks and Minerals, Herbert S. Zim and Paul R. Schaffer, illustrated by Raymond Perlman, (Prof. of Art Univ of IL), Golden Press New York (Western Publishing Co. Inc, Racine WI) 1957. My copy is well worn but still in use.

Carnegie Museum and Library of Pittsburgh PA


Dahlis Roy:  Visionary Artist Author and Tai Chi Instructor


Images by Dahlis
Rocky Mountain Top with sky, oil on canvas (detail)
Photos:
Rose Quartz 
Swirls of Sunlight, vase and crystalsClose Up of Lucinda, quartz crystal