Art Blog - Judith Ribbens

Very creative activities are happening this year!! Sometimes when the creative Juices flow it's not painting, collaging and photography that happens. Years ago, just for fun, a friend and I began a murder mystery, intending it to be light-hearted and funny. We lost interest back then. Two years ago my interst revived enough to write four chapters and detail the cast of characters. The plot got stuck. This year I began having some rather grim dreams. My imagination is not always on lovely flowers, colors, and painterly subjects. This time my dreams told me I could come up with some hair-raising images… Continue reading… 1 comment

It is February, 2010, and I'm snowbound for a day or so in the middle of a small blizzard. Not a ba-a-ad blizzard, just one of those winter storms where, if I drive, I'll lose any sense of serenity I have. Ice under the snow, you know. This is the time of year I go deep, so to speak, meaning, I look at my life and what I'm doing and seek a deeper spirituality, a deeper Meaning. This has been my practice for many years now, enforced back in 1981 by the need to look at how I lived in response to the family I came from, and what was happening to the family I had created. It's been a long, slow, process, painful at times, other times quite freeing. I've been "peeling the onion" of numerous layers and still haven't quite gotten to the core. Will I ever? I don't know… Continue reading… 1 comment