Penny says "It's soooooo good"

Penny, meet Coco

Penny at the Oceanside Museum of Art

Palomar Observatory with Penny

Penny's 5k

Penny's Party Favors

Penny Profile

Penny at the Japanese Museum Tea House and the Natural History Museum

Walking free

Penny's weekend

Party at Penny's

Penny's perch

Penny's Posse

Penny Sideways

The purpose of art

capture the essence of a moment



                                    evoke an emotion, a reaction



    an experience




a way to transcend monotony, routine, reality



                                                             a pathway to a new understanding




       a representation of a culture, a people, an era



an embodiment of a soul, a life, a person



                                         a method to overcome, confront, witness a fear


to create stillness


                                               to press pause



       a therapy for the artist  /  a therapy for the observer

                                         

                   to witness, to participate


                                            to express beauty

a translation


                                                   to create / breathe / live

  

Penny Takes a Sirsasana

Artful April: lirpA luftrA

My blog seems to have disintegrated into a journal. Let the dissolution continue, or steer the writing back towards purposeful expression?

Leaning towards the latter, although that will take more time than I have today...

Ponder this: "You can't cross the sea merely by standing and staring at the water.” -- Rabindranath Tagore

Penny's bedtime

Laguna Museum of Art

Again, another museum that has been on my list far too long. It's a small museum, but they had one spectacular exhibition from Victor Hugo Zayas. I walked into this gallery, and lost my breath. High ceilings, stark white walls, and I was alone... so that the art came alive in a way I hadn't anticipated. The walls featured giant canvases by Zayas - thick paint, texture, curves, motion - some urban some landscape. In the middle of the room, six sculptures of welded, black gun parts created organic limbs reaching for the sky. This room was so beautiful it made me wish I was a museum curator, it made me want to meet the artist, it made me want to create my own art, immediately.

Penny at the Beach

Norton Simon

I love this museum. It's been on my list for a long time, so I was thrilled to visit today.
Highlights:

• Countless Degas - sculptures, paintings, sketches
• Picasso - Woman looking up from a book
• Beautiful lily pad garden

Mesmerizing collection of Hindu and Buddhist sculptures, and the curator did an impressive job of showcasing these statues. The layout, design, and walls became part of the exhibit.