Welcome …. to, What’s on the Easel , where we talk about everything art , that’s happening at the , Lisa Lovely LPA Art Museum, I am your host , Art , and we try real hard to publish this blog , first thing in the morning every , Tuesday ! See you then !
Art : Yumny … truth in broadcasting , it’s ,Sunday afternoon here in the desert , almost 110 F , but I am inside , nice and cool , and with me today is , Lisa Lovely LPA … we are eating Arugula , pork chops and drinking cold black tea , and we are getting a jump on things for , Tuesdays , What’s On the Easel ? … and so I ask , Lisa ,what’s on the easel ?
Lisa Lovely LPA : Hello , Art lol , what’s on the easel is our very first painting of summer !
Art : That’s great and you are going to tell us about it today … I gather ?
Lisa Lovely LPA : Sure, Art , I will try to lol
Art : Yummy pork chop , a lot of people don’t realize this blog often goes down at 2:30 AM sometimes partly on the way out the door …time is always running out lol … but today , it’s Sunday, we are at an afternoon lunch … things are a bit slower .. and ..
Lisa Lovely LPA : maybe it’s better, a new trend lol at least I not falling asleep lol
Art : .. you have said, you find it difficult to write about the art you make ?
Lisa Lovely LPA : yes
Art : Why so ?
Lisa Lovely LPA : Because the paintings are in a very different language then the languages we often use to write, you see , and to write about them you have to do a very difficult translation as the paintings are more like dreams , not ground in logic , and the languages that we write , often depend a lot on logic.
Every sentence we write has a logic to it , every paragraph , is built on logic , entire books are built around a logic , we can analyze the logic of a book if we know how , but the paintings I make are not ground in logic , and in translating them to words , that make sense , very tricky.
Plus, I have a hard enough time painting , I not a very good writer lol
Art : Dreams are not based in logic ?
Lisa Lovely LPA : Well, I don’t think so , we force a logic on to it , you know , the second we wake up and go to write down our dream , that we just had , we are again writing , and forcing the dream into a logical framework…
Art : hmm
Lisa Lovely LPA : … dreams are more like poetry and poetry not so logic dependent as in critical analysis of a painting. At least I think so.
Art : How do you know what your dreams are about ?
Lisa Lovely LPA : I don’t know. I just can never be sure … But, I find it more useful to ask myself , how did I feel during the dream.
Art : How you feel ?
Lisa Lovely LPA : Yes, angry, sad, frustrated , furious , terrorized… feelings, being aware of them often starts to let me open up my dream and see what it’s saying to me … and of course , painting the dream.
Art ; Painting it ?
Lisa Lovely LPA : Yes , cause the painting is in the same language as the dream … very easy to paint a dream , usually … painting is a form of poetry. You see.
Art : … and this painting is titled what ??
Lisa Lovely LPA : Dancing Under the Sycamore Tree.
Art : It’s from a dream ?
Lisa Lovely LPA : kinda yes … I think almost all my art comes from dreams … but this one was a dream that emerged during the day lol
Art : Now that’s weird , you dream during the day ? When awake.
Lisa Lovely LPA : it’s kinda like dreams are bubbling up from my sleep , even though I am already awake , they still bubble up ,and I can catch a glimpse of them … you know … before they pop. lol
Art : this is what happened in , Reno ?
Lisa Lovely LPA : I believe so…
Art : What happened ?
Lisa Lovely LPA : I was on a trip to , Reno , decided to pass on shopping at , Hobby Lobby and decided to do the sit in the car thing while everyone else went into the store.
Art : You passed on shopping at an art store ?
Lisa Lovely LPA : lol I did ! … and while sitting in the car I realized I was in the shade of a big , Sycamore tree.
Art : ( filling his glass with Black tea looking at Lisa )
Lisa Lovely LPA : lol help yourself , tea is free around here lol
I realized I needed to paint the tree and me under it, playing my flute. That’s about all I had to go on … that’s what I caught from the dream as it bubbled up and popped.
The Sycamore also has a lot of symbolism
That fits perfect into my current life situation. Coincidence? I don’t think so.
Art : ( slurp ) but it gets busy under the tree ?
Lisa Lovely LPA : I got lonely I guess lol , and the usual characters showed up. The Magician and his wife , a man from YouTube that plays a an instrument called the , Dulcimer to the tune of , “I’ll Fly Away”, and the boy.
Art : it’s a happy time ?
Lisa Lovely LPA : Yes, we are all playing music and dancing.
Art : Why ?
Lisa Lovely LPA : Because, it’s fun lol to dance and play music , and it’s a special time.
Art : Why special ? ( giving Lisa that look )
Lisa Lovely LPA : ( Lisa filling Arts glass with the Black tea ) drink lol it’s good for you !
It’s special you see , because the boy is leaving the safety of the trees canopy , he is going after one of the Magick ballon’s , knitted by the Magicians wife and we are all hoping he catches it !
Art : Why not just give it to him, a Magick ballon ??
Lisa Lovely LPA : No no no … never we can do that … we can play music … we can entice him out of the tree but he and he alone must go after the magick. It’s extremely important he take the balloon on his own , his own choice.
Art : why does he need to be enticed out of the tree ? He is safe there you said but safe from what ??
Lisa Lovely LPA : it’s a dangerous world out there you know , Magick doesn’t come without its perils. When you take it on it’s a big responsibility, and it’s not for us to put him upon this danger.
He must take that step freely.
Art : (sigh) and this dream this painting relates to what’s going on in the everyday world ? … or is it just something that exist on your wood panel ?
Lisa Lovely LPA : you know today we see parents being very protective of their children , we don’t let them out of the house these days , with all the news of bad things happening in the world …..
… well you see it happens in our own psyche as well … we keep the inner child inside.
Art : that’s the first time today you called the boy the inner child and again talking of the psyche stuff ! The boy is in the psyche not the wood panel ? … and he is the inner child ? What’s that mean , inner child ?!
Lisa Lovely LPA : lol ( hugging Art ) , everyone in the painting is in the psyche and it’s my psyche and maybe it’s kinda the same in yours too. No one in the painting exist on the wood panel lol they are all part of me .. you see … and the inner child is nothing really special , just another part of the psyche that the other parts try to keep protected …
But like our children , that we might be keeping under lock and key these days, the inner child too is sometimes over protected and if so he won’t grow … if he stays in the confines of his tree , his jungle , safe as it is , it will kill him. He has to go out into the world.
Art : ( slurping ) … it’s too much to handle !
Lisa Lovely LPA : … and if the inner child does not grow .. the psyche will not grow as well and then issues arise.
Art : we have to grow up you mean ? … and that is scary and requires we take risk ?
Lisa Lovely LPA : that’s right … inside we have to grow .. you might be all grown up on the outside … big with muscles and so on and even starting to get old and beginning to fall apart lol like me lol but inside the psyche can be in trouble.
It may not be growing ! As it should.
Ohh you may well be an adult you know and taking on responsibilities and so on , maybe you are even the president of a big corporation or a country or something.
But inside you might not be growing so evenly .. and that’s not so good ? So, the painting for me is about opening up and taking that psychic stand.
Art : Scary ?
Lisa Lovely LPA : Can be very scary sometimes, but we are celebrating now in the painting. It’s a happy time.
Art :(smiling ) .. with that … I am almost going to say we are out of time …
Lisa Lovely LPA : lol ( drinking last of my tea the ice has all melted ) ,I talk too much lol
Art : we have a date coming up ?
Lisa Lovely LPA : yes lol I promise.
Art : candles , incense, wine , and we are going to talk about your art … and what you have learned from it ?
Lisa Lovely LPA : we will do it , promise , how much sense it makes lol we will see lol
Art : there is a lot going on now ?
Lisa Lovely LPA : a new panel goes on the easel in a few minutes to get gessoed. Lots of canvas making in the background … thoughts ideas emerging. The psyche very jumpy and busy.
Art : Art Fest is near ?
Lisa Lovely LPA : closer then I want to realize … I don’t know where the time has gone.
Art : what will be painted , when does it start ?
Lisa Lovely LPA : Not even the artist know that lol it’s always hush hush , but it is the tenth annual festival and it’s going to be standing room only ! lol.
Art : So, register early ??
Lisa Lovely LPA : you bet … and this Sunday afternoon blogging works great for me lol
Art : it does lol and we be out in publication on Tuesday. It’s going to be a crazy short Fourth of July week , so we did the interview today.
With that … we are outta time folks !! See you next time, When we ask , What’s on the Easel ?
Bye !!!
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