Notes That Warm The Heart

I've received a few wonderful thank you notes lately, and wanted to share them with you. These are a few that really touched me.

As an artist, there's really two parts to my work. The first half, is expressing the world around me as a way to understand and deal with our life. The other half is the hope that it will connect with someone else in the world, and that through my art, we can communicate and relate.

I live for this, and it makes my day.

"My wife & I just bought a print of your sketch "The Butterfly Effect" at the Saturday Market today. I guess I just wanted to let you know that we can't quit staring at it (already up on the wall and, come to find out, easily visible from passers-by on Hawthorne). Thanks for capturing our attention and helping us Portland newcomers dream again."

"I just wanted to send my appreciation for your message given on the back of the piece that we purchased. It amazes me...the profound significance that message has to my life's path. It validates an underlying question I've had in believing in this journey. THANK YOU and the perfection of the the universe."

These are two poems someone we met at Saturday Market wrote about Tabulanis' work and my own. How touching that he was compelled to write a poem about it!

" The Woman Who Draws With Time

the favorite pastime
of humankind
is trying to grasp time
to seize the moment
failure is inevitable
unless
you use time to
de-line-ate
the fleetingness
of a first kiss
the caress
of breeze on leaves
a child's wonder
at the alien magical beauty
of a butterfly
or the joyous synthesis
of harmonic co-operation
illustrating
the eternalness
of now."


The Grottoes Of My Mind
then there's an artist
who paints the grottoes
of my mind.
complete with the skeletons
of love I've killed
and impenetrable shadows
hiding horrors
which I'll never admit
into sunlight.
but the tranquil beauty of nature
the calm azure
of a peaceful pool
and the flowing lines
of ochre stone
ameliorate the nightmare
of the prison of ego."