☼ champion of the sun ☼

Tom Friedman - Untitled, 1996

August Afternoon in the Alleghenies, Charles Burchfield

1959-1961

Cindy Baedman’s “Healing Grotto”:

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“The healing grotto I created in order to work specifically with children. I had been practising as a healer and counsellor at Bath Natural Health Clinic for some time, as well as at the Cancer Self-help Centre in Bristol with Dr. Mike Weir and felt a need to ‘lighten up’. Hence after eighteen months of work, plus very many loving gifts from sometimes complete strangers, my old coal vault under the pavement of Royal Crescent in Bath, was successfully transformed into a beautiful grotto. Here I not only worked with children but also with adults sent by my local GP in various stages of mental distress such as schizophrenia.”

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Horned Mask; Japan; date unknown; wood, pigment, cord; 11 5/8 x 8 x 5 in. (Asian Ethnographic Collection, American Museum of Natural History)

the wedding party

King of the Weeds, 2013

Nicholas Kahn & Richard Selesnick

Sunflowers Umbria  -  Ruth Stage

British,b.1969-

ancient egg tempera technique,    36 x 42 cm.

Just sit down and relax, Sunshine! We’ve already laid our eggs today!