11 Tuesday Oct 2011
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© Joan Currie
I follow the scent of a woman
Melon heavy
Ripe with joy
Inspiring me
To rip great holes in the night
So the sun blasts through
by Rita Mae Brown – Dancing the Shout to the True Gospel
The gourds, rather than the pumpkins, inspire me this autumn.
09 Sunday Oct 2011
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© Joan Currie
Almost everything – all external expectations, all pride, all fear of embarrassment or failure – these things just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important. – Steve Jobs
A Post-it quilt of affection for Steve Jobs grows on both front windows of the first Apple store in Palo Alto, California.
© Joan Currie
08 Saturday Oct 2011
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© Joan Currie
The spray reached out and sucked her in
It was hardly a noticed thing
That Joan was there and is not now
(Oh go and tell young Featherstonehaugh)
Gone away, gone away
All alone.
Stevie Smith
This lonely shoe on the beach brought to mind the poem, Deeply Morbid. I was a little disturbed that the protagonist and I share the same name.
04 Tuesday Oct 2011
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© Joan Currie
We have so little faith in the ebb and flow of life, of love, of relationships. We leap at the flow of the tide and resist in terror its ebb. We are afraid it will never return. – Anne Morrow Lindbergh
Food from the sea – a heaping serving of kelp noodles.
28 Wednesday Sep 2011
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© Joan Currie - Charcoal on Paper
It’s a natural state. I’ve seen more vulgarity in people wearing clothes.
Laetitia Casta
Strut it!
26 Monday Sep 2011
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© Joan Currie
[The history of most women is] hidden either by silence, or by flourishes and ornaments that amount to silence. Virginia Woolf
It is time to be the heroine of our own stories.
22 Thursday Sep 2011
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beautiful, British Columbia, Burrard Inlet, Inukshuk, Loren Eiseley, Photography, postaweek 2011, The Seawall, West Vancouver
© Joan Currie
Sometimes the rare, the beautiful, can only emerge or survive in isolation. In a similar manner, some degree of withdrawal serves to nurture man’s creative powers. The artist and the scientist bring out of the dark void, like the mysterious universe itself, the unique, the strange, the unexpected. – Loren Eiseley from The Night Country
When I shifted my focus from the water to the shore, I beheld many acts of creation.
10 Saturday Sep 2011
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© Oil painting by Mona Currie
Peonies are the overblown floozies of the garden. – Mona Currie
These flowers are the happiest when they are the center of attention.
27 Saturday Aug 2011
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© Knitted by Joan Currie
I know well that happiness is in little things… – John Ruskin
I stayed up late finishing another throw – and really enjoyed designing the generous fringe! The inspiration for the colors came from Nirvana’s Come As You Are performance video – Rome 1991 (the green spotlight on Kurt Cobain’s hair, especially).
25 Thursday Aug 2011
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© Knitted by Joan Currie
Yarn spun in this luxurious way turns a simple knitting project into high art!
I just finished knitting this very textured wool throw and love the result! The King of Rock and Roll’s Blue Suede Shoes kept me on task.
Satin & Sand 