Living Art: The Watermark Arts News Blog

The Dream

ElaineSeptember 13, 2017Featured Post

The Dream that led to Watermark Arts, by Elaine Colandrea

The name and vision for Watermark Arts came to me in a dream. The dream became a dance, which was photographed by Phyllis McCabe in July 2017.

Frank at play

Naming

Robin Becker

Foyle's War and My Father

Foyle's War and My Father or: Foyle & Franz by Sandra Capellaro 'My husband wants to be like Foyle!', my English friend said to me, 'it's such a great show.' It was the tail end of a brutal winter in upstate New York when we bumped into each other. Like everyone else, I was frayed around the...

Traveller (video)

A glorious tour de force, an album of Lois Walden’s original songs, sung with passion and vibrancy accompanied by a collage of brilliant performers. Lois was co-executive producer, and participated in all the arranging, mixing and production. Lois Walden and Paul Buchanan: Everyone’s Gonna Be Saved

Nourish #1

Language of Wet Sand

Canti della Pace

Tea with Demons

"Tea with Demons, games of transformation" has forty-nine games for the reader to play, is part memoir, part a stroll through a three-story Buddhist palace, has pictures of Shantigar, and is embellished with visuals by Veronique Bryant and calligraphy by the author. You can order it from Amazon or at www.shantigar.org

The Breath of Winter (poem)

Photo Credit: Kent Shiraishi The wilderness and miracle of birth surrounds us, Darkness calling like a womb: Warm, nutrient rich, thick with meaning and mystery. It is the annual exhale. To return again, is the call. To bare ourselves open and steep in the truth and fullness Of this moment as it is: A flurry of activity projects and...

You

I am looking for you in your green velvet cloak
You came to me in dreamtime
A see through shape of my lineage
"Abide with me" was your message..over and over again
Now I see you everywhere
You touch me with the softest breeze that reaches the smallest hairs on my face skin
You shake...

Star

The News on 11/21/17--Every dream begins in darkness (poem)

Feet kneading dark loam Sifting debris stirs new blooms. These seeds harbor hope.

Engaging the Movement of Life (book excerpt)

The following is an excerpt from the introduction to Bonnie's book. Engaging The Movement Of Life: Exploring Health & Embodiment Through Osteopathy & Continuum is an invitation to discover new ways to experience health and embodiment. Through my experience studying and practicing Osteopathy and Continuum, in addition to exploring a variety of other physical and metaphysical...

Touch - Cut - Save

Impressions: The Three Anatomies

Wonder

Spirit Cloth

"Spirit Cloth” Collection of Emilie Conrad; silk; 45” X 50”

Magnolias

Being

Lisa Clementi

The Dream

Soothing the Soul with Somatic Art and Retreats

Eunmi Kuk

From Seoul Korea to Rhinebeck NY

Take a walk into awe