we were at a workshop called "art & healing". she was facilitating. i provided the venue.
we stood at the doorway of the gallery and talked for about an hour. i had just started running the muir gallery. she was half way through what she calls "the sunrise project".
we talked about healing. she described her fascination with the unique balance of beauty in each breaking dawn.
i think about her project all the time.
i woke up at 5:55 this morning. at my parent's house. and as i watched the streaks of light reach my bedroom - i thought about gretchen. something about the discipline to get up and paint that early in the morning... keeps me completely fascinated.
beauty: the quality that gives pleasure to the mind or senses and is associated with such properties as harmony of form or colour, excellence of artistry, truthfulness, and originality; a quality or feature that is most effective, gratifying, or telling: The beauty of the venture is that we stand to lose nothing.
fascination: the capability of eliciting intense interest or of being very attractive; the state of being intensely interested or attracted: listened in fascination; an intensely interesting, attractive quality or trait.
