The Creative Spirit is Forever Young

Tree Line / Snow Angel / My Valentine Flowers

"The heart is what matters most of all."
Kris Kristofferson

Hi Renotta
You are amazing! These pieces are beautiful as is the photography. I'm worried that you will wear yourself out. Perhaps you should stop for the weekends.

I would love to see a short description of the works ie process, material etc.

Thanks so much for your cogging - most of my friends think I'm a little crazy!
I looked up cognition - good word - "the process or act of knowing - perception" - it has an anagram - "incognito". Can you use it in a sentence? I haven't been able to yet. It has relevance to the creative process, which is what I believe keeps us young in spirit. The body may age but the spirit is forever young when you are creating.


Happy Valentines Day - my lovely husband gave me these beautiful Lizzies this morning.
A little philosophy, for the occasion, from Chuck Close, known for his photorealism technique of breaking photographs into a grid and enlarging the contents by hand. I would rather like to have a go at that sometime. Like you, I love my camera - I dabble in photoshop, and have also been known to use that lil ol' healin' tool.


Chuck says " A person's face is a kind of road map of the life they have led" Not so sure I like that part (Photoshop) but his perceptions on marriage are interesting - "Damned if I know what makes a marriage work. I have been married for forty years, and it's not one marriage. By then you've had four or five totally different marriages. You hope you evolve in similar ways, have compatible ways, and that you now have a new reason to be with somebody. But they're going to be different from the previous reasons to be with them."


I admire people who have been married for that long and who have evolved together. Nothing wrong with his creative spirit either. He is wheelchair bound now but still paints with a paintbrush strapped to his hand.

Happy creating.

Love Clara