The Magic, Miracles and Joy of an Artist: "Blackbird" by Seth Apter

Sunday, September 9, 2012

"Blackbird" by Seth Apter

I purchased this art, Blackbird, from Seth Apter recently and it arrived this week. I LOVE it!!! Seth created this piece during the filming of the workshop DVD "Easy Mixed Media Surface Techniques" from North Light Media. I think it is very special and I am thrilled to own it and display it.

I had to show you how this piece arrived. Seth's packaging is a work of art in itself. I almost hated to unwrap it ~ just held it and looked at it for a while until I couldn't contain myself. How clever and beautiful, Seth.

This is Blackbird on my mantle. Beside it is another piece by Seth, Find Your Voice. I love his use of layering and texture, making even a simple statement into something bold and beautiful.

5 comments:

Sue said...: Audrey, I just happened upon your blog and love the blackbird and quote. They are perfect on your mantle. I also enjoy the quotes on the sidebar of your blog. Nice!; September 9, 2012 at 10:21 PM
Seth said...: Thanks so very much for giving Blackbird such a good home Audrey. I am thrilled that you are happy with both of these pieces and thank you for showing me where they live. It isn't very often that I get to see a photograph of where my artwork ends up!; September 9, 2012 at 10:26 PM
sf said...: Looks lovely on your mantle!; September 9, 2012 at 10:27 PM
Deborah said...: DeLovely! They both look wonderful on your mantle. **happy smiles** Deb; September 10, 2012 at 9:54 AM
Mary Helen-Art Saves Lives said...: I love the blackbird but we can all use the Find your voice theme daily! Thank you, Mary Helen Fernandez Stewart; September 11, 2012 at 11:20 AM

For in that sleep of death, what dreams may come!

I AM A "SEARCHER"

"I am one of the searchers. There are, I believe, millions of us. We are not unhappy, but neither are we really content. We continue to explore life, hoping to uncover its ultimate secret. We continue to explore ourselves, hoping to understand. We like to walk along the beach, we are drawn by the ocean, taken by its power, its unceasing motion, its mystery and unspeakable beauty. We like forests and mountains, deserts and hidden rivers, and the lonely cities as well. Our sadness is as much a part of our lives as is our laughter. To share our sadness with one we love is perhaps as great a joy as we can know - unless it be to share our laughter. We searchers are ambitious only for life itself, for everything beautiful it can provide. Most of all we love and want to be loved. We want to live in a relationship that will not impede our wandering, nor prevent our search, nor lock us in prison walls; that will take us for what little we have to give. We do not want to prove ourselves to another or compete for love.

For wanderers, dreamers, and lovers, for lonely men and women who dare to ask of life everything good and beautiful. It is for those who are too gentle to live among wolves."

~ James Kavanaugh

I am THE LOVERS Tarot Card

Motive, power, and action, arising from Inspiration and Impulse. THE LOVERS represents intuition and inspiration. Very often a choice needs to be made. Originally, this card was just called LOVE. And that's acually more apt than "LOVERS." Love follows in this sequence of growth and maturity. And, coming after the Emperor, who is about control, it is a radical change in perspective. LOVE is a force that makes you choose and decide for reasons you often can't understand; it makes you surrender control to a higher power. And that is what this card is all about. Finding something or someone who is so much a part of yourself, so perfectly attuned to you and you to them, that you cannot, dare not resist. This card indicates that you have or will come across a person, a career, challenge, or thing that you will fall in love with. You will know instinctively that you must have this, even if it means diverging from your chosen path. No matter the difficulties, without it you will never be complete.