Passion for Art

Can you fold a shirt in 2 seconds?

Mon, 31 Aug 2009 06:02:07 GMT

Try this...let me see how it works!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=An0mFZ3enhM&feature=related

Newest Spirit Dolls

Mon, 24 Aug 2009 19:23:16 GMT

It has taken quite a few weeks to come back to my dolls, I had so many things to do in between...that I almost feared that they would not "allow me in" the flow of creativity. I am glad it was not so, as soon as I sat at my table...the process began and I am glad it did, because it feels like I have balanced my time. These little creatures are such blessing to my days. Not only because I enjoy making them, it is wonderful to see that others enjoy them as well.
What prompted me to finish what I had started months ago...someone found me at Etsy and purchased 6 dolls! Amazing Grace, how sweet the sound...

Here are some of my newest spirit dolls, available at my Etsy Store

According to Anne Rice

Mon, 20 Jul 2009 14:44:20 GMT

There is one purpose to life and one only: to bear witness to and understand as much as possible of the complexity of the world - its beauty, its mysteries, its riddles. The more you understand, the more you look, the greater is your enjoyment of life and your sense of peace. That's all there is to it. If an activity is not grounded in 'to love' or 'to learn,' it does not have value.

Have we forgotten how to feel?

Sat, 18 Jul 2009 09:43:25 GMT

How do we change as a culture to make positive changes in out culture and the world?
We have a choice...

Glamour can be totalitarian and dangerous

Sat, 18 Jul 2009 09:37:02 GMT

Finding solutions...Intuitive game

Wed, 15 Jul 2009 07:57:01 GMT

Ask yourself a question, now, from a favorite book, turn to pages 11 and 33 . Find the last COMPLETE sentence in each page. (even if you have to follow on to the next) Then, post these instructions in your blog to share with others...It can be insightful and fun!

My question was: Where do I go from here?

I feel like Perceval setting off on a Grail Quest... I was aware that the story itself is elusive, there are many versions, contradictions, and interpretations and I was about to add my own

.-Crossing to Avalon, Jean Shinoda Bolen, M.D.

Dreams vs Plans

Tue, 14 Jul 2009 16:42:17 GMT

Martin Luther King said "I have a dream", not "I have a plan".

What are you dreaming about...?

Let me share mine: I see myself traveling, taking photos making art of strange and beautiful landscapes and gathering with my friends to create small communities in different places where we share and learn to live abundantly in a more harmonious way with nature.

Crazy Universe

Tue, 14 Jul 2009 10:02:04 GMT

Do you know what it's like, to stand on the heavenly diving board of time, looking down at the 10,000 lifetimes you're about to begin? Seeing everything for the first time through prisms of color and light? Feeling totally overcome with such a surge of joy for ALL that lies ahead, that it takes all of your angels just to keep you from leaping before it's your turn? Knowing that no matter what happens you will emerge wiser, richer, and deeply in love with every form of consciousness that will soon touch and expand your own?

Oh yeah...

Nice cannonball.

In love,
The Universe

What does this mean to you?

Mon, 13 Jul 2009 11:30:04 GMT

It is not worthwhile to go around the world to count the cats in Zanzibar. - Henry Thoreau

Dreaming

Sun, 12 Jul 2009 08:59:25 GMT

"I dreamed I spoke in another's language,
I dreamed I lived in another's skin,
I dreamed I was my own beloved,
I dreamed I was a tiger's kin.

I dreamed that Eden lived inside me,
And when I breathed a garden came,
I dreamed I knew all of Creation,
I dreamed I knew the Creator's name.

I dreamed--and this dream was the finest--
That all I dreamed was real and true,
And we would live in joy forever,
You in me, and me in you."

— Clive Barker (Abarat: Days of Magic, Nights of War)

Whats in a word...DUHKA

Mon, 29 Jun 2009 07:37:06 GMT

I learned a new word, Duhka...thanks to Mark, and I am fascinated by its meaning:

Duhka, in Buddhist thought, is the true nature of all existence, and the recognition of the fact of suffering as one of three basic characteristics of existence...along with impermanence and the absence of a self ...constitutes the “right knowledge.”

Duhka is a word which represents all of the feelings of un-fulfillment, suffering,, insecurity, fears, love, hope and excitement....(yes we suffer even when we are in love because we are at the mercy of changes)

We are never truly happy no matter how much we make, no matter how much we have, there is always something going wrong to spoil things up for us... or so we expect, even when we get what we want...more so then, because we are not used to attaining happiness, so we must punish ourselves and say that it is not enough or perfect less the gods hear about it and send us some "real" punishment for getting more than we deserve.

So, next time you feel imbalanced...think of Duhka and all its gifts...
Perhaps these are road signs that point us towards an obstacle.... they’re not ‘enemies’ but ‘friends’ along the journey...and don't trick yourself by thinking that this is the road to happiness...it is just a journey to self knowledge, at best to find patience and more compassion for ourselves and others.

What a man!

Sun, 28 Jun 2009 08:06:54 GMT

The ordinary man casts a shadow in a way we do not quite understand. The man of genius casts light.

George Steiner

"The fantastically wasteful prodigality of human tongues, the Babel enigman, points to a vital multiplication of mortal liberties. Each language speaks the world in its own ways. Each edifies worlds and counter-worlds in its own mode. The polyglot is a freer man."

“Language can only deal meaningfully with a special, restricted segment of reality. The rest, and it is presumably the much larger part, is silence.”

“The most important tribute any human being can pay to a poem or a piece of prose he or she really loves is to learn it by heart. Not by brain, by heart; the expression is vital.”

“It is not the literal past that rules us, save, possibly, in a biological sense. It is images of the past. Each new historical era mirrors itself in the picture and active mythology of its past or of a past borrowed from other cultures. It tests its sense of identity, of regress or new achievement against that past.”

George Steiner

Buenas Noches

Mon, 22 Jun 2009 08:55:10 GMT

It is good to be back...!!

Let there be spaces...

Mon, 22 Jun 2009 07:55:52 GMT

A friend who is far away is sometimes much nearer than one who is at hand. Is not the mountain far more awe-inspiring and more clearly visible to one passing through the valley than to those who inhabit the mountain?

But let there be spaces in your togetherness and let the winds of the heavens dance between you. Love one another but make not a bond of love: let it rather be a moving sea between the shores of your souls.

Kahlil Gibran

How sweet of you...

Sun, 21 Jun 2009 17:40:12 GMT

Spring Cleaning

Sun, 26 Apr 2009 22:57:13 GMT

It only look 3 weeks, but I am happy to say, I know where everything is (more or less, and I still have to go though several boxes of paperwork under the tables)

Here are the witnesses of all my hard work... :)

So you wonder what did it look like before?
it was worse than this, which was taken a year ago...

Lets Celebrate!!
May be I can get some painting done now.

My obsession with Gray Gardens

Sat, 11 Apr 2009 05:36:41 GMT

THE EVOLUTION OF GRAY GARDENS
MAPPING GRAY GARDENS
THE FAN SITE

They were artists and in their mind they were still living in beauty!

This story has been on my mind for nearly 20 years, so many articles and documentaries...I almost got obsessed with those two people, living their days their way...it is intriguing and full of romance with life.
Gray Gardens
The New York theater wrote, here are still secrets left to tell about Little Edie Beale, including her diary. Her sense of fashion...gives one lots of room for behaviour/creativity...she called it Revolutionary Fashion for today.

Little Edie would not conform...about her gardens.

I am looking forward to watching the movie about this house and their eccentric owners.

New paintings

Thu, 09 Apr 2009 07:39:00 GMT

I have created a series of collage ~ assemblage mixed media paintings called Crow -Raven Moon Songs using all the unfinished canvases I could find...what a great experience this was. Next, I am planing to include my polymer cabs...see what Spirit will inspire me to do next time...come back and visit, I am always eager to see what you have to say.

Etsy: Your place to buy & sell all things handmade
gristello.etsy.com

The Garden

Mon, 30 Mar 2009 06:20:26 GMT

Update, my friend did not get the house, he offered 52,000 and someone made a cash offer for more, so it is gone. I am glad I had the opportunity to take the photos before it sold.

Still Proud and Beautiful

Sat, 28 Mar 2009 16:55:35 GMT

Forgive me for making this into a slide show...

A friend of mine has placed an offer on this house...so I can't disclose its location.
It is a lovely place, but the kitchen is very small, hardly any room to move around. The house was built in 1911 and has a lovely small attic room with a closet. The strangest thing in this place, it has 3 fire places, back to back and one of them, a kind of reading room, so tiny...you would roast while reading a book.
This house needs some serious remodeling, with enough vision not to destroy its original beauty. Asking price...only 49,900.00!!

Art Installation ReDressing Injustice

Sat, 14 Mar 2009 05:12:14 GMT

A UNIQUE REQUEST
Advocacy for the Women of Juarez
REDRESSING INJUSTICE
A Collaborative Art Installation

ReDressing Injustice is a dramatic art installation that generates public awareness about the hundreds of unsolved murders perpetrated against women living in Juarez, Mexico.

Home made soap?

Tue, 17 Feb 2009 08:19:41 GMT

http://www.facebook.com/ext/share.php?sid=52288618633&h=clVQP&u=cNH3p

Congratulations President Obama!

Tue, 20 Jan 2009 08:02:47 GMT

CONGRATULATIONS MR. PRESIDENT...and congratulations to anyone who dares to dream of peace, integrity and the end of hunger, any kind of hunger!

Angels and cats

Thu, 08 Jan 2009 04:58:23 GMT

It is already a week and my tree is still in place...I feel as nostalgic as the photo I took of my son. So, here we go, pick up all the Christmas stuff, and hide it away for another year...I don't know if I should save those little dolls or sell them to start again. Some of those have so much work, but the cat faces don't quite make the theme (people tell me they should be angels...as if cats do not enter into the angel realm)

The Contribution Game

Fri, 02 Jan 2009 07:29:25 GMT

I was invited to participate on a site that inspired me...if you want to join, let me know, I will send you an invitation.

http://www.contributionnetworkingparty.com/
http://www.contributionnetworkingparty.com/profile/GriseldaTello