Flying Colors

Magnificent!

Precious is the breath of little rose drops
all exploding under the soft canopy of pink clouds
and forever being embraced by the wings of a rooted forest...

...an exquisitely framed moment within the interlocking dance of life!

"Magnifica"
• digital mixed with original printed on ricepaper and mounted on canvas • 10" x 10" • Lisa Rivas © 2009
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“Man's life is like a drop of dew on a leaf.”
~Socrates -Ancient Greek Philosopher, 470 BC-399 BC

A breath of fresh air....

Flowers against the digital print (24" x 24"): "Flowering Time Genes"

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Perfumes are the feelings of flowers.  ~Heinrich Heine

IF • Fearless

The songs come from a vulnerable place,
but expressing that part of yourself can also make you feel fearless. ~Deana Carter

"Heart & Soul" • archival pigmented print on canvas • 24" x 24" Lisa Rivas ©

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Overnight success is a myth. Behind every success is a lot of tears, fears and doubts. ~Unknown

IF • Linked

A chain is only as strong as its weakest link.  ~proverb

 

original painting - private collection - Memphis, TN  - USA - "Birds of Paradise"
watercolor, wax, rice paper, quilted • 38"H x 36"W • © Lisa Rivas
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One of the first conditions of happiness is that the link between Man and Nature shall not be broken.
~Leo Tolstoy

IF • Dip

"For I dipped into the future, far as human eye could see,
Saw the vision of the world,
and all the wonder that would be." ~ Alfred, Lord Tennyson

original painting - private collection - Portsmouth, NH  - USA - "Blooming Innocence"
watercolor, wax, rice paper, quilted • 38"H x 36"W • © Lisa Rivas
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Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures.
~Henry Ward Beecher

IF • Brave

An old rat is a brave rat. ~ french proverb

• watercolor, wax, ricepaper and sewn! • Detail • © Lisa Rivas • "Out of the Blue"
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He who is brave is free. ~ Seneca

IF • Propagate

An error does not become truth by reason of multiplied propagation,
nor does truth become error because nobody sees it. ~ Mohandas Gandhi

• watercolor, wax, handmade paper and sewn! • 18"H x 13"W • © Lisa Rivas • "Sweet Flowers"
SPRINGTIME
Oh, spring came to my garden
And caught it unaware
Wearing just a few old leaves
And a dejected air.

But when spring left my garden,
Its work so deftly done,
Many, many Daffodils
Were dancing in the sun.
~ Velma D. Bates

IF • Adrift

Clouds come drifting into my life, no longer to carry rain or usher storm,
but to add color to my sunset sky. ~Rabindranath Tagore

• 36" x 108" (triptych) • Lisa Rivas • "Windswept"
• digital and mixed media on ricepaper and mounted on canvas

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Creativity is a lot like looking at the world through a kaleidoscope. You look at a set of elements, the same ones everyone else sees, but then reassemble those floating bits and pieces into an enticing new possibility. Effective leaders are able to ~Rosabeth Moss Kanter

IF • Undone

Life creates itself in delirium and is undone in ennui. ~Emile M. Cioran

 

original painting - private collection - Chicago, IL  - USA - "Overflowing"
watercolor, wax, rice paper, quilted • 38"H x 38"W • © Lisa Rivas
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Besides the noble art of getting things done, there is the noble art of leaving things undone.
The wisdom of life consists in the elimination of non-essentials. ~Lyn Yutang

IF • Music

Music is the universal language of mankind. ~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow


original painting - corporate collection - Memphis, TN - USA - "The Musical Tree"
watercolor, wax, rice paper, quilted • 72"H x 72"W (triptych) • © Lisa Rivas

A painter paints pictures on canvas.  But musicians paint their pictures on silence.  ~ Leopold Stokowski

IF • Skinny

Slender branches and thin stems like skinny spider legs,
spin and twine together, displaying life's amazing webs.

watercolor with photo-composite - Nashville, TN  - USA • © Lisa Rivas - "Inflorescence with Spiders"
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Nature is too thin a screen; the glory of the omnipresent God bursts through everywhere.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

IF • Germs

On man when he came into life the Father conferred the seeds of all kinds
and the germs of every way of life. ~ Giovanni Pico della Mirandola ~ (Italian Renaissance philosopher)

"Attraction" • watercolor, digital, printed on ricepaper and mounted on canvas • 10" x 10"
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The Germ
A mighty creature is the germ, though smaller than a pachyderm.
His customary dwelling place is deep within the human race.
His childish pride he often pleases by giving people strange diseases.
Do you, my poppet, feel infirm? You probably contain a germ.
~ Ogden Nash, 1902 - 1971

Apparent failure may hold in its rough shell the germs of a success that will blossom in time, and bear fruit throughout eternity. ~ Frances Ellen Watkins Harper

IF • Pattern

Art is the imposing of a pattern on experience,
and our aesthetic enjoyment is the recognition of the pattern. ~Alfred North Whitehead

original painting - private collection - Memphis, TN  - USA - "Palindrome"
watercolor, wax, rice paper, gold leaf, quilted • 40"H x 36"W • © Lisa Rivas

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This painting was designed to be hung in any direction, thus the title of "Palindrome"

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A palindrome is a word or pattern that instead of developing in different directions it folds in on itself
so that the beginning and end mirror each other, that they are the same.
~ Todd Solondz (American film director and screenwriter)

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IF • Magnify

Garden Glove surfaced from
the image–word play around
the idea of “green thumb”.

I struck a balance between the clumsiness
of the glove shaped as a flower,
with it's color and delicate details.

The seam of the glove became the curved spine
of a caterpillar, awaiting its transformation
into a butterfly!

original painting - artist collection (for sale) - Nashville, TN  - USA - "Garden Glove"
watercolor, wax, rice paper, quilted • 19"H x 18"W • © Lisa Rivas

This piece is a tribute to George Washington Carver. His inquisitiveness about the world around him and his lifelong engagement with the plant kingdom benefited mankind in many ways. It earned him the moniker of “Green Thumb.”

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The greatest magnifying glasses in the world are a man's own eyes when they look upon his own person.
Alexander Pope