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Jul 27

The business side of friendship…

View of Skipper's Dock where we had lunch and docked the boat. It was a bumpy ride over, but FUN!

Dear Friends, We sit on Laura’s back porch looking over our To-Do list and wishing we had just one more day to do it all. We seem to always have more ideas than we do time. Really, our favorite moments on visits like these are when we are in the studio creating artwork and dreaming up our next collaborative project. The business of selling our work, marketing what we do, making contacts for teaching and speaking engagements can really bog us down. We needed to remind ourselves today on the ride back from Laura’s studio that the business side is only a small piece to this important work we are doing together. Gently taking care of the wonderful friendship we have fostered over the past four years is our primary concern. Our friendship is what has allowed us to come this far in our work and continues to inspire us to continue pushing our work to be better. We want to not only be better artists, but better people having known one another.

We are all lucky if we find one true friend in this life time. We are charting unknown territory as we travel along this road to making our work into a business and want to thank you all for coming along with us.

Shells and rocks Tina collected while we were at the beach at Pine Island

We have many posts to come in the next few weeks about all the business decisions, creative jumps, celebrations of completed work, and projects planned for this coming year. For now we will leave you with some pictures of our “play” time while in Connecticut.

Two Friends.

Two Artists.

Two Entrepreneurs.

“Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born.”
– Anais Nin

Cheers!

Tina & Laura

Here we are getting ready to go shopping in the Borough after a lovely lunch

Studio work -> Tina working on our last page to the Book Exchange

Laura's turn to work on the Book Exchange...It is now complete and we will share more soon.

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Posted in Studio Collaboration 3, The Journey, quotes art & business skippers dock Stonington Borough

Jun 01

Vision 43

Vision 43 (Laura)

Dear Tina,
Pretty pink peonies in a NEW bubbly vase! This week the peonies are in bloom and have filled my home with their soulful, sweet, scent. They are another flower I used to grow at my NH cottage which would mesmerize me with their grand display of whimsy, ranging from the softest powder pink to shocking fuchsia. You can imagine my horror the first year I moved into the cottage to find an abundance of ants all over them! I was totally grossed out and afraid after waiting for them so long, they would be damaged, but soon learned how brilliant mother nature is. She provides the buds with a nectar the ants can’t resist and through their diligence the buds are eased open and are graced by their showy brilliance. Peonies were given the name “Shame or Bashfulness” as mischievous nymphs were said to hide in their petals. I love the stories and mythology behind flowers and can’t wait to discover more as my garden comes to life! Do you or any of our readers know any stories or myths about flowers?

xoLaura

Flowers are beautiful hieroglyphics of nature, with which she
indicates how much she loves us.
- Wolfgang von Goethe

Vision 43 Tina

Dear Laura,

I took this photo while on a walk in downtown Charleston. I have a series of these photos I have taken on and off over the past decade. I am fascinated by how nature will always adapt and change what we make as humans. In particular I am always interested in how trees grow in and around fences, uproot sidewalks or house foundations, and slowly adapt to the growth imposed by humans around them. I wonder how we might learn a lesson from that.

~Tina

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Posted in Vision/ReVision, quotes peony Wolfgang von Goethe

May 30

ReVision 42

ReVision 42 (Laura)

Dear Tina,

I have been on several walks at the Bluff this week, always mindful of your Vision and the ebb and flow of the ocean surrounding me. The shoreline here is very rocky and even where you do find sand it is covered with shells. I was reminded of the shell series I did while at Goddard and my line of inquiry about “what lies above and below the surface of our lives”. If you were to take a look further out at the ocean on this particular day, you would have seen that the water wasn’t very clear. It made me think about how we each perceive the world. We can CHOOSE to see the beauty in the everyday or we can choose the muck. I always choose the beauty. I will leave you with a quote by Natalie Goldberg which seemed fitting in lieu of your recent post about her. xoLaura

“Original details are very ordinary, except to the mind that sees their extraordinariness.” ~Natalie Goldberg

ReVision 42 Tina

Dear Laura,

These two African Iris’ bloom one day and are gone. Similar to how you felt about your iris blooming, we were surprised to see this plant come back after such a harsh winter here (we had many frosts and it actually snowed in January which had not happened in 20 years). I always enjoy this plant’s momentary beauty in the garden. Momentary beauty…..isn’t it all just for the moment?

Carpe diem!

Tina