Flying Colors

IF • Blur

Sometimes in our confusion, we see not the world as it is,
but the world though eyes blurred by the mind. ~ author unknown

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

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A "fata morgana", Italian translation of Morgan le Fay, the fairy shape-shifting half-sister of King Arthur, is a mirage, an optical phenomenon which results from a temperature inversion.

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 • Fast

If you wish to travel far and fast, travel light.
Take off all your envies, jealousies, unforgiveness, selfishness and fears. ~Cesare Pavese

 

original painting - corporate collection - Memphis, TN  - USA - "Overcall"
watercolor, wax, rice paper, quilted • 40"H x 38"W • © Lisa Rivas

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Light thinks it travels faster than anything but it is wrong. No matter how fast light travels, it finds the darkness has always got there first, and is waiting for it.  ~Terry Pratchett

IF • Frozen

People tend to focus on the here and now. The problem is that, once global warming is something that most people can feel in the course of their daily lives, it will be too late to prevent much larger, potentially catastrophic changes. ~ Elizabeth Kolbert (American journalist - author)

original painting - private collection - Memphis, TN  - USA - "The Dip"
watercolor, wax, rice paper, sewn • 24"H x 24"W • © Lisa Rivas

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All across the world, in every kind of environment and region known to man, increasingly dangerous weather patterns and devastating storms are abruptly putting an end to the long-running debate over whether or not climate change is real. Not only is it real, it's here, and its effects are giving rise to a frighteningly new global phenomenon: the man-made natural disaster. BARACK OBAMA, speech, Apr. 3, 2006

IF • Flying

Man is flying too fast for a world that is round.
Soon he will catch up with himself in a great rear end collision. James Thurber

 

original painting - available - Nashville, TN  - USA - "Flying Colors"
watercolor, wax, rice paper, silver leaf leaf, glazed • 40"H x 36"W • © Lisa Rivas

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Flying Colors: victorious; extremely successful.
The term comes from the practice of a victorious fleet sailing into port with flags flying from all the mastheads.

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)

IF • Infinite

Finite to fail, but infinite to venture. Emily Dickinson

original painting - private collection - Memphis, TN - USA - "The Infinite Solitary"
watercolor, wax, rice paper, quilted • 38"H x 36"W • © Lisa Rivas

If one is lucky, a solitary fantasy can totally transform one million realities. Maya Angelou

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Music fills the infinite between two souls. Rabindranath Tagore

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