This JANE.

Jane Birkin, actress and singer was known

for being a muse to Serge Gainsbourg.

Jane Birkin, born Dec 14, 1946, was the center of attraction to a mystique inspired by the daring and the intolerance for resisting social change typical of this time period (1960-1970's). She was intriguing more than beautiful, thoughtful more than attractive. - Dawn Wolf, Keeper of Stories 4/01/18

a writer meets an artist

Modesty Blaise watercolor by Jim Holdaway.

Modesty Blaise created by  writer Peter O'Donnel and artist Jim Holdaway.

IN Depth, WITH Depth

artist Jimmy Law. A Black Woman's Face.

a Tremendous talent.

Lori Williams by Roy Cox at 51 years of age. January 22, 2018.

Lori Williams by Tommie Adams Jr. said, 'Words are powerful... speak wisely.'

EXPRESSION is telling!

painting by Salvador Dali titled Woman with a Head of Roses.

Oriental woman by Hailin Fu

"I wish I could find the words to match the feeling I have looking into the moment captured by Bryan Larsen in this painting titled, Taking Time." - Dawn Wolf, Keeper of Stories

 Quent Cordair Fine Art has this original. 707.255.2242

www.cordair.com 

Country Girls is an original oil painting by Han Wu Shen at

Quent Cordair Fine Art 

"Therapy", an original oil painting by Perrin Sparks for sale at Quent Cordair Fine Art. This award winning artist is featured at www.cordair.com.

Carmen Dell’Orefice, an American model, 83, was at the Kensington museum to launch Horst. Photographer of Style in 2014.

Great ART: Black Women

photographer Roland Dawson, a collage. [2016]

collage of Roland Dawson's work.

The formality of getting to know an individual far exceeds the trite statement that 'first impressions are lasting impressions' because discovery is the key unlocking what is beyond first impressions, and the drive of the energy lines each of us possess cannot be traveled upon in the first moments of meeting someone. The fascinating storytelling of real photographers with the gift of the 'eye of the spirit' takes time to develop. When it has developed where artists like Roland Dawson are concerned with telling stories with accuracy and courage; the models, the subjects come alive. It is all a far cry from the immaturity of 'selfies' and those people who think they are capturing their moments. They are not. They are limiting themselves to one dimension. Unlike artists and visionaries with cameras who explore dimensions people limiting themselves with selfies as expression and twitting as communicating they avoid the mystery, the mysteries, the mysterious explorations of the soul, the cultivation of their minds into impeccability!

I know these are profound things to talk about, but so is living a life within the dynamics of its tendency to lead toward wholeness resistant to definition. - Gregory E. Woods, Keeper of Stories [May 18, 2017]

photographer Roland Dawson. 3 Black women, a collage.

A dream by Roland Dawson.

collage by Roland Dawson of Black women in white.

Yaniksa Lee Robles by Roland Dawson on a train. 2017

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Look Within Art of She!

Bianca Balti, super model

painting by Salvador Dali titled Woman with a Head of Roses.

Art by Natalie Shaw

Arab woman with sunflowers by Bruno Barbey

From An Alternate World

Red haired woman from a world beyond by Sarah Bowman Photography 

 

Look at an NDN life.

Once on display at National Museum of the American Indian in New York, “For a Love of His People: The Photography of Horace Poolaw” will go on display this November at Smithsonian's National Museum of the American Indian in Washington, D.C. The retrospective exhibition features works by photographer Horace Poolaw (Kiowa, 1906–1984), whose black-and-white images document Native people of rural Oklahoma with affection while providing insight into the values and community life of his time....

Poolaw photographed his friends and family and events important to them—weddings, funerals, parades, fishing, driving cars, going on dates, going to war, playing baseball. For more: http://nmai.si.edu/explore/exhibitions/item/?id=953 

Gus Palmer (Kiowa, at left), side gunner, and Horace Poolaw (Kiowa), aerial photographer, in front of a B-17 Flying Fortress. MacDill Field, Tampa, Florida, ca. 1944. (45UFL14) © 2014 Estate of Horace Poolaw

Sacred Woman-to-be.

"When the river runs strong through you, you find your way back home no matter what. You may get wayward but never lost." - Jackie Moon, Klamath artist and activist.

Sophie Bleu, a character created by Jackie Fawn., as she words it,

"one of my original characters I created way long ago."

Jackie Fawn, Klamath on her lands seeing the future. (2016)

My salmon bones back in the waters I grew up on. It's good to look upon the place that creator has created for us Klamath people and remember what it is we fight for. Behind me was the next generation playing and laughing like how all kids should. They are the ones who keep me truly humble in this journey. At this moment my heart was warm and full. For now this fisherman's daughter must continue to flow with the adventurous ocean that is life. Like all salmon, I will return.

Jackie Fawn, Klamath
August 23, 2016 

CREATIVE SUGGESTIONS is Art

Gazelle Powers by Gregory Garecki
 

Gazelle Powers by Tom Wilson
June 18, 2014

 

WHAT SHE IS. . .

of Simone McLeod:



"I am looking into your face. It is not the beauty that holds me and keeps me looking into your face it is the statements you convey from the silence wrapped around you, and place in the shadows. Beauty isn't an announcement it is a state of being one's self, naked, firm, and in your story stoic, at times, and hard to categorize other times. What is beautiful to the eye holds my attention. What pertains to the heart stills the moment. What isn't said is as alive as what is conveyed in a glance, a song, a moment of awe and a reflection of essence..."  - Gregory E. Woods, Keeper of Stories 6.15.14 [Father's Day]

Ojibwe artist Simone McLeod
May 15, 2014 

 

Simone McLeod

May 14, 2014 

 

DREAM OF, ON, WITHIN, ABOUT & FROM



Juno Brown

May 7, 2014 

"Juno, some conditions create certain arrays of colors on, around, within and from beautiful people creating beautiful things to internalize and remember. . .Others are recipients of the creations of Creators.  Others, according to the Creation Story they come from are Watchers, who judge, enjoy and reserve themselves from the process the other two enjoy and share. 

This story is in you creating the stories others will declare comes from them when it is they who sleep with their dreams, but depend upon you to release their dreams! " - Gregory E. Woods, 6.3.14





Juno Brown by  Eraj Asadi
Feb. 25, 2014



Original Art



Lovers need each other by Charlie Bowater

deviantART Charlie-Bowater

 

Excellence is a Given amongst Africans

Cassandra Wilson further solidifies her status as not only the most brilliant jazz singer
of her generation, but one of the New South’s most provocative voices.

Amiri Baraka (center with beard) visited students in Harlem to discuss
his controversial drama Dutchman. Part 1. In those days there was no social divide
between great Black men and the young who sought them out. It is a very old
tradition. It is the African way throughout the coastlines and interior of the
Land of the Blacks. - Gregory E. Woods, Keeper of Stories

 

TRIBUTE to Excellence

Lena Horne in the 1950's

"She evolved into a Lady. A helluva a story it must be."

~ Gregory E. Woods, Keeper of Stories

1.12.16

Lauryn Hill at the piano !!!!
video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i3_dOWYHS7I 

 

20TH PRACTICE: Let us see

One of the deeper things I learned becoming a Sirmiq Aattuq Wisdom Keeper is simply stated, but important to learn. For some the degree of difficulty disciplining one's self to read, or hear this mirrors how difficult it will be to internalize the three steps and do the work necessary. For me I was fresh into dealing with my physical heart. It had changed after I'd been struck by lightning, and in the following years the center piece of my healing process was not the steady rhythm I was use to. Forced with a new reality I needed the association of healers who understood to listen and help me where I couldn't. This is where I want to stop and show you something small, but significant.

First, learn to breath and slow the heart. Second, see the heart as a friend, a brother, not as an enemy. Embrace it. And thirdly, even in the face of death you must breath and see the present. In the present is the place to change the future. In the present is the only place to learn from the past. ~ Gregory E. Woods, Keeper of Stories 12.12.13

Feb. 26, 2013

EYE looking at EYE

I don't know whose conceptual idea this is, but it is a bit more than brilliant. I found this in Misa Campo's photo gallery on Facebook. The photographer remains unknown. Unfortunate because credit for talent, work and contribution to the better good is important to give to creators. Mimics have their place, but it is minimized because they have to wait for a creator to surface with a creation to be mimicked. - Gregory E. Woods, Keeper of Stories 12.12.13 

Tribute: Sydney G. JAMES

Art That Inspires Me

artist Sydney G. James with her art work on display (2013)
www.sydneygjames.com 

The Art of Sydney G. James
www.facebook.com/pages/Sydney-G-James-Art/131702849842
 

Children's Magic Potions

Kim Geyer Author/Illustrator
June 6, 2013

Where dreams come from and land in our daily lives is dependent upon the childhood we had and the child we maintained within us as adults to balance the inconsistencies of adulthood. It is a way of playing within one's self. The rigid and self-righteous eventually swell and bust, and the resilient swell with joy and are in awe of small miracles. They bust too, but don't wind up insane. A child's crazy sparks the genius that gives us insights into the mysterious forces governing our lives, and developing our art of living. 

There is a lot to be said about children, and a lot to remember, or envy for some, and a lot to cherish and as an adult finger through for the pearls. But, this is a wonderful dream to the many who define adulthood suspiciously, and disdain the innocence of children's magic. Easily these people become part of the administrative end of education departments and undermine the development of children with skill and aplomb! - Gregory E. Woods, Keeper of Stories 10.31.13

by Kim Geyer
July 30, 2013

To tell a story

symbol of Woman & the Dakini by Keith Dowman