tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-73425962856860588532024-02-07T03:48:43.239-04:00 Archan Knotz creates listening to the inside
Archan createshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06237523709139537680noreply@blogger.comBlogger101125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7342596285686058853.post-19808448012307108962021-03-19T12:17:00.001-03:002021-03-19T12:17:59.599-03:00 Archan Knotz creates : February<a href="https://streetsridge.blogspot.com/2021/03/february.html?spref=bl"> Archan Knotz creates : February</a>: Every year it happens, February arrives and I have this strong urge to connect with something about my ancestors. Above the acrylic paintin...Archan createshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06237523709139537680noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7342596285686058853.post-34603608135706409452021-03-19T12:16:00.000-03:002021-03-19T12:16:42.324-03:00February <p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhrDXKOu6oxCKoGKqglUae210LU1fv7MLupRnzrxEgl3Fr5zgmdvKg36DSt962LOnvsY66SPLRbdpGnsGVbTRzggbqZOVNyAIfiZMcqdrjQFND9OYIzcKkMrDPp0KduqCj7AWATrfE7gik/s2048/09FF1BB9-85F9-41BC-BC76-7715A453C6E4.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1720" data-original-width="2048" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhrDXKOu6oxCKoGKqglUae210LU1fv7MLupRnzrxEgl3Fr5zgmdvKg36DSt962LOnvsY66SPLRbdpGnsGVbTRzggbqZOVNyAIfiZMcqdrjQFND9OYIzcKkMrDPp0KduqCj7AWATrfE7gik/s320/09FF1BB9-85F9-41BC-BC76-7715A453C6E4.jpeg" width="320" /></a></div><br /> Every year it happens, February arrives and I have this strong urge to connect with something about my ancestors. Above the acrylic painting on 4x4’ sheet of paper Three Generations. <p></p><p>It showed up as something sad, as a unfulfilled longing. </p><p>What if I saw it as a sign of a new beginning, spring. A sign, to gather all my gifts given to me and to step forward into the new beginning, rather then, looking in the past for an explanation.</p><p>I had yesterday an aha moment as I was listening to each other’s insights. </p><p>Oh, so profound was for me the realization that I want to step forward, no need to explain the past anymore but to make marks and give the onlooker the opportunity to interpret the painting, I don’t have to explain everything.</p>Archan createshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06237523709139537680noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7342596285686058853.post-70326866336075184282021-02-05T11:48:00.001-04:002021-02-05T11:48:37.794-04:00Stuck in the expected <p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEimdZ7fkaztYxgF21766Y0x5ZQf2RRM2iLyQQKm-8GIO2roFD4BxyRYqYlRG3d0demEma2hehZM5N4tTj7lVa640n-yoCJU5Seurq8r0F8Cjevc4dNzYaH5ls8jtGsNIb9C2Q7s9feMakQ/s2048/847FA24F-C22A-4FE8-AA36-6CAE8DFBA16C.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1536" data-original-width="2048" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEimdZ7fkaztYxgF21766Y0x5ZQf2RRM2iLyQQKm-8GIO2roFD4BxyRYqYlRG3d0demEma2hehZM5N4tTj7lVa640n-yoCJU5Seurq8r0F8Cjevc4dNzYaH5ls8jtGsNIb9C2Q7s9feMakQ/s320/847FA24F-C22A-4FE8-AA36-6CAE8DFBA16C.jpeg" width="320" /></a></div><p><br /></p>Stood down by the shore <p></p><p>and couldn’t go in.</p><p>No, I was not dressed in gear.</p><p>The beauty of the water was amazing, and I just stood there.</p><p>Paralyzed, looking on without moving forward.</p><p>Fog rolled in and I was nearly relieved, even though, I did have my mind made up to go back to the house and get dressed.</p><p>Feeling somewhat foggy these days, stuck, uninspired, avoiding doing the unexpected.</p><p><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhhx2IdPNPCQ1EnOaUyc7cShEFbNU0Bhvw7qw0Ytc2yy3y_HyUT0zBGTFrgDTzSbL2w5obo0gnS9DUDuA0vwLSWnoWGRXYIxA6fIVZ6hVrbLBnIDSu6amr7yihb5Vip6NWMCvD2JbBEozY/s2048/92858946-6856-4F5E-AC12-B65B12904961.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1813" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhhx2IdPNPCQ1EnOaUyc7cShEFbNU0Bhvw7qw0Ytc2yy3y_HyUT0zBGTFrgDTzSbL2w5obo0gnS9DUDuA0vwLSWnoWGRXYIxA6fIVZ6hVrbLBnIDSu6amr7yihb5Vip6NWMCvD2JbBEozY/s320/92858946-6856-4F5E-AC12-B65B12904961.jpeg" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg7tXqZMmhpVzdKlqecfO0gfxBR9MW6WsiFqvhJcvSHQySyft4zL_JfhNrkuZkxyYcaiKojjq3q8LO_uqY5Tc0Bfs7DVd52q0X7ZF3qcG87iV52yIuDp1aoZM_WS24MfDXa8-WzHFSefrw/s1908/ED50E600-4984-48B8-A6CD-954427F27B53.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1896" data-original-width="1908" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg7tXqZMmhpVzdKlqecfO0gfxBR9MW6WsiFqvhJcvSHQySyft4zL_JfhNrkuZkxyYcaiKojjq3q8LO_uqY5Tc0Bfs7DVd52q0X7ZF3qcG87iV52yIuDp1aoZM_WS24MfDXa8-WzHFSefrw/s320/ED50E600-4984-48B8-A6CD-954427F27B53.jpeg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><p><br /></p>Archan createshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06237523709139537680noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7342596285686058853.post-76307861209118021962020-04-30T13:10:00.001-03:002020-04-30T13:10:56.566-03:00Archan Knotz creates : Grocery Shopping No Walk in the Park<a href="https://streetsridge.blogspot.com/2020/04/grocery-shopping-no-walk-in-park.html?spref=bl">Archan Knotz creates : Grocery Shopping No Walk in the Park</a>: Acrylic on canvas Sitting at home after a morning of town hopping. 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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Acrylic on canvas<br /><br />Sitting at home after a morning of town hopping.<br />Well, we needed groceries and the summer tyres needed to go on.<br />I haven’t been to Amherst, our nearest town, since March.<br />Grocery shopping has become a very planned act, and so it should be.<br />We get up at 6am and leave for the senior hour at around 6:30am.<br />Went for gas and promptly went blank for my PIN number, I guess I haven’t used it for a while.<br />Straggling to touch into memory, I tried muscle memory, anything at all to fill this emptiness where my PIN number used to be stored.<br />Thank goodness it came back to be and we were home by 10 am.<br />Feeling jet-leg I remember when travelling to Europe, now I feel it going grocery shopping in Amherst, funny.<br />Anyhow, I have nothing to complain about.<br />I feel gratitude for my life and for this day!<br /><br />In a little while, I will go outside and gently dig in the dirt and place some sunflower seeds in, the mammoth kind.<br />With each one I will remember the beautiful soles we have lost last week.<br /><br />I posted this painting to celebrate kindness, friendship and humanity.</td></tr>
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I had to share my thoughts about my morning cups of tea today.<br />
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I have been listening to an audio book by Henrietta Lovell - Infused: Adventures in Tea https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/41826892-infused<br />
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She describes teas and tea drinking deliciously.<br />
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I have been sharing my new found knowledge with my partner Mary, who doesn't share my enthusiasm about brewing and drinking tea.<br />
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Anyhow, all I want to share today, is that I had wonderful tasting cups of green tea this morning.<br />
I am so grateful for this.<br />
Sometimes, I am trying all day to taste this wonderful cup of tea that makes my senses sing.<br />
Today is a day of singing senses.<br />
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<br />Archan createshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06237523709139537680noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7342596285686058853.post-14993867359623840792019-11-26T19:48:00.001-04:002019-11-26T19:48:53.812-04:00Archan Knotz creates : The Call of the Strait<a href="https://streetsridge.blogspot.com/2019/11/the-call-of-strait.html?spref=bl">Archan Knotz creates : The Call of the Strait</a>: The windows are open at our silent retreat. Sitting in silence, calling out from our source through our mind to focus on our breath. R...Archan createshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06237523709139537680noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7342596285686058853.post-13931304730237367992019-11-26T19:41:00.000-04:002019-11-26T19:41:28.366-04:00The Call of the Strait<div style="text-align: center;">
The windows are open at our silent retreat.</div>
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Sitting in silence, calling out from our source through our mind to focus on our breath. </div>
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Retraining the brain, to let go of thoughts, worries or, our to do lists.</div>
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I hear the waves, coming to the shore, calling.</div>
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Waves, who are bringing water from all over the world.</div>
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Listening, focussing back onto breath, listening.....</div>
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I am blessed to sit in my house and hear the waves kissing with passion the shore.</div>
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On our walk break from sitting, I went down to the shore, I couldn’t resist.</div>
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The waves breaking , the wind cold on my face.</div>
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Every now and then, the water was exhaling and I caught it’s brine breath in my nostrils.</div>
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Mesmerizing, the waves breaking on the shore.</div>
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I imagine, the waves carrying never ending stories, and that I am part of the stories it carries.</div>
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Imagining how old this water is breaking in front of me and that I am a part of it.</div>
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I am in awe about the beauty, strength and wisdom of the ocean!</div>
Archan createshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06237523709139537680noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7342596285686058853.post-74386824639299721392019-11-14T12:20:00.001-04:002019-11-14T12:20:49.591-04:00Archan Knotz creates : Walk in November<a href="https://streetsridge.blogspot.com/2019/11/walk-in-november.html?spref=bl">Archan Knotz creates : Walk in November</a>: The sun is shining but it is cold, as I walk down to the shore. The only salt I feel on my body these days is, when I walk...Archan createshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06237523709139537680noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7342596285686058853.post-19665012851944203732019-11-14T12:17:00.000-04:002019-11-14T12:19:39.798-04:00Walk in November<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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The sun is shining but it is cold,</div>
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as I walk down to the shore.</div>
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The only salt I feel</div>
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on my body these days is,</div>
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when I walk past the woods</div>
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and my eyes start to water</div>
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as I stand at the shore.</div>
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As the waves</div>
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kiss the shore over and over.</div>
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I see my shadow </div>
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in the sand.</div>
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Yes, the sun is shining.</div>
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It is a beautiful day! </div>
Archan createshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06237523709139537680noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7342596285686058853.post-2987325320363990192019-10-24T11:00:00.001-03:002019-10-24T11:00:12.745-03:00Archan Knotz creates : Openwater Season<a href="https://streetsridge.blogspot.com/2019/10/openwater-season.html?spref=bl">Archan Knotz creates : Openwater Season</a>: 6x6" acrylic on canvas $65 Thank you to the water Thank you to the sun Thank you to the wind Thank you frien...Archan createshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06237523709139537680noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7342596285686058853.post-61616530331564257942019-10-24T10:56:00.000-03:002019-10-24T10:56:33.879-03:00Openwater Season<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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to the water</div>
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to the sun</div>
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to the wind</div>
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Thank you to my love!</div>
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500 m dog paddle</div>
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1800 m non stop swimming in open water</div>
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Marathon in Ottawa </div>
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swimming over seaweed</div>
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swimming with seals </div>
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swimming till the middle of October in the Strait</div>
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kept going even when freaked out</div>
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swimming when the goggles leak</div>
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swimming the first time so far out </div>
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enjoying the wildness of the water</div>
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going out to eat </div>
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supporting each other</div>
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How I will miss you water of the Strait around my body these winter month</div>
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and how I miss my swimming buddies already, </div>
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as we go our separate ways over the coming winter month.</div>
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... as the morning progresses I am having my third cup of tea and I am excited to created today.<br />
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Last week life interjected some,<br />
in order for me to contemplate,<br />
to learn about myself,<br />
to avoid the big rain drops that kill bees. <br />
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.... this morning is a new day,<br />
nourished with life, I move on,<br />
concentrating on my up coming show in Oxford at the Riverside Gallery in October.<br />
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Contemplating aging with grace and joy what does that mean to me.<br />
Working on expressing it in a visual way for the show.<br />
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Is keeping a journal something from the past?<br />
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Are we able to not communicate every thought on social media?<br />
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Are we able to write it in a journal, explore the meaning of what we just have written in the quiet moments following the entry with more thoughts just meant for us, or for someone we feel safe with?<br />
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Does every thought be public knowledge?<br />
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When I write in my journal, I check in with my body, how does it feel?<br />
How much energy do I have this morning?<br />
What am I grateful for?<br />
Yes, sometimes there are sad thoughts, angry thoughts, however, when writing them down in my journal and not on a social media platform I am able to reflect and change my thought pattern, while on social media I have already 10 reaction as I am wishing that I never posted it and feeling locked into a unhealthy thought pattern, which can result in shame and embarrassment and, therefore, is counterproductive of becoming a more responsible, aware, thoughtful, kind human being.<br />
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Anyhow, journaling is a worthwhile activity for my mental health. Slowing things down, bringing my thoughts into prospective, giving me a chance of intrinsic growth, changing my energy expelling highway. <br />
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Not only are the journals inside unique because of your unique thoughts, but they are beautiful objects and remind you of your own beauty when you look at them.<br />
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Enjoy your beauty today!Archan createshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06237523709139537680noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7342596285686058853.post-53930864828939029112019-03-30T11:32:00.001-03:002019-03-30T11:32:52.339-03:00Archan Knotz creates : Selling Online while keeping the importance of the...<a href="https://streetsridge.blogspot.com/2019/03/selling-online-while-keeping-importance.html?spref=bl">Archan Knotz creates : Selling Online while keeping the importance of the...</a>: Handcrafted Leather Bound Journal How can you tell how it feels by looking at a picture? How the journal opens? How the paper feels? ...Archan createshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06237523709139537680noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7342596285686058853.post-62330767560011280172019-03-30T11:31:00.001-03:002019-03-30T11:31:14.184-03:00Selling Online while keeping the importance of the Product<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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How can you tell how it feels by looking at a picture?<br />
How the journal opens?<br />
How the paper feels?<br />
How can you imagine an intimacy between you and these pages?<br />
How can you spill out your dreams, visions, fears on something you have only known digitally? <br />
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Every time, I exchange a journal with some one who has only seen the pictures my anxiety heightens.<br />
Will it be the right product for you?<br />
Will it be like you imagined?<br />
Will it inspire you?<br />
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I also know that these things are out of my control, however, it is still very important to me.<br />
A journal can be a very good friend and to relay just on one of your senses to select such a good friend can be deceiving.<br />
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However, even a good friend is not perfect. We except the part that isn't quiet as we expected and love the other parts even more. Could it be the same with the journals I produce?<br />
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I put thought into them, love and all the good energy I can find and send them out to you, to fill them with your thoughts. Maybe, that is all one can do, be the best one can be and trust that this is enough?<br />
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<br />Archan createshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06237523709139537680noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7342596285686058853.post-22860933502864453582019-02-20T10:15:00.001-04:002019-02-20T10:15:39.224-04:00Archan Knotz creates : Journals<a href="https://streetsridge.blogspot.com/2019/02/journals.html?spref=bl">Archan Knotz creates : Journals</a>: Handcrafted leather bound journals 6.5 x 4.5" #repurposed Journals have been instrumental in creating opportunities in my life. ...Archan createshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06237523709139537680noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7342596285686058853.post-11405168765080029872019-02-20T10:10:00.000-04:002019-02-20T10:10:19.976-04:00Journals<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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Journals have been instrumental in creating opportunities in my life.<br />
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So I am happy to now actually create the 'hardware' myself. I have not been known to be crafty and actually fainted into my adored teachers arms, when working in sewing class.<br />
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Journals have followed me as my sketch books or to visualize my life. Sometimes with long pauses in between.<br />
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When I was younger and living in Munich struggling, while escaping reality into writing a life I wanted to live into my journal. I started to understand how important journals are. While writing, my brain started to be more free of all the things charging through the synopses.<br />
Yesterday, I had titled by blog post, Unlimited Possibilities, well, eventually I basically talked myself into being courageous by exposing my inner critic in my journal. Which prompted big changes in my life. <br />
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Moving to Frankfurt.<br />
Signing up for art classes.<br />
Had my first show.<br />
Sold some artwork, which eventually connected me to Nova Scotia, which I now call my home.<br />
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I remember sitting in the airplane in February of 1993 (only someone who does not know how cold winters are in Nova Scotia would be thinking of visiting NS in February), telling the story how I came to be flying to Nova Scotia to a person next to me, he said, "write a book about it". <br />
In a way I did, before it happened.<br />
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Journaling is a courageous undertaking because what you put in there and dream about can come true.<br />
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<br />Archan createshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06237523709139537680noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7342596285686058853.post-17011974247879709242019-02-19T14:18:00.001-04:002019-02-19T14:18:31.227-04:00Archan Knotz creates : Unlimited Possibilities<a href="https://streetsridge.blogspot.com/2019/02/unlimited-possibilities.html?spref=bl">Archan Knotz creates : Unlimited Possibilities</a>: Unlimited Possibilities 12 X 6" acrylic on canvas It has been a strange winter here in Nova Scotia. One day we have 10 C and the...Archan createshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06237523709139537680noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7342596285686058853.post-70352086058095347872019-02-19T14:15:00.002-04:002019-02-19T14:15:33.231-04:00Unlimited Possibilities<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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It has been a strange winter here in Nova Scotia. One day we have 10 C and the next we are back into the deep freeze -27 C. No snow just ice. People are slipping and falling like bowling pins and breaking all kinds of bones. <br />
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This morning, I was trying to catch one of our Gulf Shore bald eagle on camera, however, no luck. Every morning in the last couple of weeks, one of these amazing birds has been soaring over our roof. How lucky am I to see these birds flying or sitting on trees across the road in my neigbhourhood. I feel a strong sense of reaffirmation about myself when I see these bald eagles, with gratitude I stand by the road and look up at these majestic birds. <br />
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Giving myself permission to explore product making for this years Farmer's market. I felt overwhelmed by working in all different mediums and needed to allow myself, one month at the time to work on different things.<br />
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It is important to give space to all our different abilities to create, in order to concur the overwhelming anxiety of the never quiet inner critic. <br />
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<br />Archan createshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06237523709139537680noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7342596285686058853.post-86144265557619012442019-02-08T11:50:00.001-04:002019-02-08T11:50:29.490-04:00Archan Knotz creates : Unterpainting<a href="https://streetsridge.blogspot.com/2019/02/unterpainting.html?spref=bl">Archan Knotz creates : Unterpainting</a>: 6 x 12" acrylic on canvas This painting is inspired by all the women I see when I am going to the pool in Truro. They, or I bette...Archan createshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06237523709139537680noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7342596285686058853.post-82582840384280336272019-02-08T11:47:00.000-04:002019-02-08T11:47:28.314-04:00Unterpainting<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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This painting is inspired by all the women I see when I am going to the pool in Truro.<br />
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They, or I better say, we come in all shapes, sizes and ages.<br />
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I am inspired, seeing a elder walking with a walker to the pool's edge abandoning her walker and slipping into the lane next to me. As I swim my lanes, I look over and here she is with her nose clip and her goggles doing the front crawl lane after lane, till she switches to back stroke.<br />
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After an hour we both exit the pool.<br />
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Now this is inspiring! Archan createshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06237523709139537680noreply@blogger.com0