Individualism and Rose Colored Glasses

Ring 'Round the Rosy, 12x12" pastel

Sometimes you just have to put the rose colored glasses on to see life differently...otherwise you just keep going round and round the same old scenes without noticing the beauty right in front of you!

"Art is the most intense mode of individualism that the world has known." --Oscar Wilde

A friend asked when referencing this quotation:
"...true? or intense individual connection to Spirit?" I ask, is there a difference?! I think it's just a mode of seeing....

Creativity is basic to all human beings...not as a divinely bestowed gift to a select few, but individually expressed, as uniquely as we all are different, throughout us all. Some are creative in the studio, others on Wall Street and others in the kitchen. Wherever you express yourself, it is uniquely your view of the divine Spirit or the Universe as you see it and are connected to it.

Reflections of the Past

Self Reflection, digital image

It's that time of year. Everyone gets a little edgy about what they've accomplished in life, and naturally reflects on their past and where they are going. But I'm really tired of well meaning inferences to how our past makes us who we are today. I mean, if our past was bumpy and challenging, does this make us broken?

Only the good in our past stays with us and makes us who we are...it's not what terrible things that have happened to us that shape us...it's how we rise like a Phoenix out of the ashes and are reborn of Spirit that makes us who we are and have always been. Maybe past reflection gives us a better view into who we really have been all along.

General thought today maintains that the future is created by the past, and that, like human machines, we repeat our past in our tendencies. It is further held that if we would be free of our past, we must have breakthroughs in consciousness, or we cannot do anything new.

I want to challenge this mode of thinking.

The past is actually defined by the present and by the future...and not the other way around.

"Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past." --George Orwell

2011 Calendar for Sale

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Enjoy my photos from my October "Big Sky and Open Road" trip...all year long! From Sedona, Arizona to the Grand Canyon, enjoy the great outdoors with me. You can order your calendar directly from Zazzle. Click on the calendar image above. Merry Christmas!

Winner/Stock Photo Pick

Winner/stock photo pick 

for John Deere ad. 

Pat and Sam Wolf of Smithville, Texas.
©2009 by S'zanne Reynolds of Studio Zanne

For stock photography or commissioned portraits, email me through studiozanne.com.

Surf Surprise, 15x12" pastel

This little boy was caught unawares by an incoming wave as the tide came in off the coast of Kitty Hawk, N.C....one of my favorite childhood vacation spots.

Surf Surprise

15" x 12"
Pastel on Paper, framed
$350 + $25 s/h in the US

Seaside Java Stop, 12x9" pastel

Seaside Java Stop

12" x 9" (30.5cm x 22.9cm)
Pastel on Sand Paper
$375 plus $25 shipping and handling in the US
E-mail me for International shipping rates or other inquiries.

This piece is on display at the Creative Arts Society show in the Chase Bank Cooridor at 700 Lavaca, Austin, Texas.

I fell in love with the spectacular beauty of the Oregon coast while exploring her shores last September of 2008. This vista was discovered just off a road in a little town in or around "Seaside"...just south of Astoria. I pulled over to take a look and grab a cup of Joe at a drive through java stop. I loved blue river lingering in and out of the rich grasses, in contrast with the bare bones of a dead tree trunk. The river probably goes into the ocean, just the other side of the dunes.

Winner of Annual Juried APS Merit Award

Cumulous Billows

10" x 8" (25.4cm x 20.4cm)
Pastel on Sanded Board
SOLD

WINNER OF THE AUSTIN PASTEL SOCIETY MERIT AWARD. I developed this painting partially from a photo reference of a cloud and partly from memories of the lava red shores in Hana, Maui.