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The Locking Tree

9/24/2010

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This week, I discovered a painter who loves trees. I am always looking for artists who love trees. Her imagination ravishes trees.
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She painted without schooling.

A fine French director made a movie of her life: Seraphine. It won Yolande Moreau a Best Actress award in France, and won seventeen awards worldwide in 2009. It’s a quiet, unflinching film that gets your hands dirty.
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Divinely dirty. Soil is divine.

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"Where has the tree gone, that locked earth to the sky?" Philip Larkin asks in his poem "Going." The tree is here.
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Seraphine of Senlis and Emily Carr and Georgia O’Keefe. These three followed their inner directives to worship the living earth with paint. How do you worship?



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"Can you understand the light among the trees?" Nick Drake asks in "The Way to Blue." Seraphine Louis did.
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Patrick Gracewood link
10/5/2010 09:42:33 am

Barbara,
Not sure how I got to this post, other than cosmic intervention as obviously I needed to read it as well. I love the busking poet! Reading it did my heart good, just when I needed it. Do your work and keep putting it out there! amen.

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