A Mighty Price – https://youtu.be/OwX39um73_0 – This song has been done for many weeks, but recording had to wait until my class was finished & the room was finished and I’d settled in on my new job. Took a while, but I’m glad to say I’m not quite finished with music. Lyrics at the youtube link if you’d like.
Tag: life
“Be As the Water” – Tiny Desk 2024.
My contest entry has been accepted 
I wasn’t planning to enter this year, but I wrote this and felt it had the right energy this time, It’s a reminder to myself to be as present and open as I can be, while I can. I think it’s a message worth sharing. If you listen, thank you and I hope you enjoy. Poem below.
Be As the Water
No, the river rising won’t mind the flood.
Like arms of the ocean, to the sky every open.
Given good and bad, it fills up in love.
Any and all and more than enough.
What lessons? To accept this life gave what you need.
The good and bad equal the meaningful between.
So be as the water ever open to the sky.
Forget how you got here. Forget you asked why.
Why? Why? Why? No reason at all.
Tomorrow is yesterday, over and done.
To be is all purpose could ever want.
However you got here is with a goodbye,
Sure as the loss as each moment here dies.
So be as the water ever open to the sky.
Forget how you got here. Forget you ask why.
Why? Why? No reason at all.
Link to browse all the other cool contest entries this year: https://tinydeskcontest.npr.org/2024/browse-2024/
Through the Fire
A small canvas skull painting, the first completed of 2024. Last year put me through it and making it to the next with such a changed perspective is a gift I paid a high cost, but that’s that. The coward in me will be put to death at every turn this year. No more suffering.
Going Home
Referencing a landscape book I’ve had for years. I never paint wild life so I thought this was a good place to try for a change.
NEW SINGLE – ALL WE ARE – Guitar / Voice.
The final version I’m really proud of.
Possessing
A spray painted background. I free handed this one and see different things when I look at it. Dancing with a ghost. Trying to kill a ghost. Being taken over by a ghost. Fending off possession. Something like that.
Blue
A pen pal of mine was so generous in sending me extra paint and fresh canvas she wasn’t using (she remembered I said I don’t purchase them often). As a thank you, I said I would paint her something and send it her way, shipping tomorrow. I looked through an old photo book I have of American landscapes and loved the blue mountain look on the horizon of the photo on the left here. My painted interpretation looks different but I wanted to bring out the parts I loved most about the photo. This was fun.
Changing Views
I used the mats from these 8 x 8 frames I bought for my coffee filter flowers and covered them with the remaining filter scraps. I had a few mirror shards left too and threw them in a few of these. Trying to turn something unwanted into a little less useless. I’m hesitant to start anything else now. Lack of time with work and the pointlessness of this day to day thing is weighing down.
See What Goes Wrong
This painting is small, 6in x 4in I think. Not sure I even have it anymore, but I think I understand what I was trying to say now when it was made. It is painful watching efforts come to nothing again and again. Things go wrong, then keep going wrong whether one can handle it or not. I hate it here most of the time, for real.
NEW BLOOMS
More flowers I folded out of unused coffee filters.
Allyson Marie Arts 