HAPPY HOUSES 5 - 7

Plus 3 makes 7 Happy Houses.

HAPPY HOUSES 1-4

7 Happy Houses

first 4

finishing up some projects

this is one of them

CAMBODIAN STORY ROPES

There's Marcia in Cambodia teaching the story ropes this past week!

Amazing seeing what started in Rwanda, is now going to the nations!

Once I get the stories I'll be posting Marcia's Cambodian experience on Our Stories, my other blog.

Click Our Stories for 'why' and 'how' of story ropes.

SIX PEARS

My friend, AJ Picard, exhibited 2 of his beautiful pear pastels in an open house art exhibit we had a few years ago.

I enjoyed his work so much that week, hanging in my kitchen.

During the week I noted that 3 'real' pears I had in a basket, had ripened to the same coloring as those in the painting. I could not resist setting up this shot.

This summer AJ had the honor of demonstrating portraiture at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, NY.

INVESTING IN MARCIA

This past year Marcia came for a week to study with me. I taught her every story-telling technique I know. She made a story rope, accordion books, collages & gospel tags.

I invested a week in Marcia, confident that God would use her life story, shared in creative ways.

From here she went to Nicaragua & Hungary doing storying techniques with multiple groups.

Now she's in Cambodia. Her pictures are streaming in on FB. I do see Gospel tags. The stories will come later. (photos)

YES! She has taken everything she's learned & run with it & she does it all better than me!

Click here for the story of Marcia's week in my studio.

SIGN OF THE SEASON

We passed some of these when we were out today.

Pumpkins at the Farm

collage by m.malwitz

photos

fabric

painted papers

sequins

buttons

stitching

YOU SEE SO MUCH

You see so much on these cross-cultural trips. I'm thinking about that as my friend, Marcia, sends pictures back from S.E. Asia, where she is multiplying over and over what she learned in my art studio.

I was remembering something I saw on one of my own trips.

The orphanage was filled with throw away children. I will never forget the small boy, laying on his back, staring at the ceiling, with two tears running down his cheek. I felt so helpless standing beside him. My friend said, "Their little bodies are like prisons."

Silent Tears Silent Suffering m.malwitz

FALL AT STORM KING

Sometimes it's good to get out of the studio & go someplace inspiring - a time to refresh body & spirit.

Storm King is that kind of place. An amazing sculpture park about an hour from where we live.

It's pretty mind-bending to see monumental sculptures generously spaced out over 500 acres - artists' work living in the Creators' world.

I took these photos a couple fall seasons ago.

2 pics: sculptures by

Mark di Suvero

lower pic: sculpture wall by

Andy Goldsworthy

Click for Storm King & go on video tour of the sculpture park.

THE OLD JALOUSIE WINDOW

Our season of beauty begins.

Old Jalousie Window

mixed media collage

fabric

photos

fabrics

machine stitching