I Will Wade Out

                        till my thighs are steeped in burning flowers
I will take the sun in my mouth
and leap into the ripe air
                                       Alive
                                                 with closed eyes
to dash against darkness
                                       in the sleeping curves of my body
Shall enter fingers of smooth mastery
with chasteness of sea-girls
                                            Will i complete the mystery
                                            of my flesh
I will rise
               After a thousand years
lipping
flowers
             And set my teeth in the silver of the moon

E. E. Cummings (1894 - 1962)

this poem right now gets closer than anything to touching on the what has set my skin aglow and my heart on fire.  i am about to be 39 and i am in awe of this tremendous world that doesn't seem to tire of showing me new faces of love despite my feeble insistence that i know what i want or who!

some works in progress..

berlin2012

this postcard began in a urban garden in berlin called Prinzessinnengärten..


.. the constraints of being on the road have me reaching into collaging and drawing as well as painting.. pens and possibilities are inspiring.


one of the new things is that i am working on a one of a kind magazine.

hmm..chic & chicks..mmh

..inspiration comes from some of the content in the magazine i am reappropriating. ..as well as all the usual and extraordinary 

magic cigam

  .. most of these came to life here in basel over about a week (and a lifetime)..

leben

naked with rumi

let the beauty we love be what we do.  there are hundreds of ways to kneel and kiss the ground . 

~Rumi

these two are back to back so they can't see each other right now.. this is a rolled up canvass that has been started in sacramento, hung out in järna, and is now traveling around with me.. through copenhagen through witten through  rome and so much more...

just a taste of some of what i've been up to recently.  xoxox rae

listen..

on my birthday this year i was given a gift of new music.. when i listened to them live i felt like i had been loved and caressed by something powerful.. and woke up the next morning with a smile on my face and echoes in my body and no physical touch other than music!  music man, it really can do a number on you :) 

listen to this and then close the window and watch the video... phantogram: a dark tunnel  

...i stopped at Ceago  winery on my way up to teach a yin workshop in Mendocino <3