Iconographers cannot stop themselves from trying to paint these sacred images. This is an ancient tradition that is no longer open to a select few or one particular denomination. Iconographers Paint Byzantine Style Icons because the practice demands you think about the sacred. It goes without saying iconographers cannot help but experience a bit of humor along the way. I am not alone, but so many of us have a legitimate love for the practice and we cannot be silenced. A bit of Humor before ... Read More about Iconographers Paint Byzantine Style Icons
Byzantine icons, Message or Revelation
My iconographal mistakes might surprise the viewer in an extra ordinary unorthodox way. Three of my icons in particular fall into the category of ironic errors. Mistakes are inevitable while learning to painting Byzantine icons. Message or Revelation, whatever the outcome, any small subconscious missteps shift the theological norm and challenge orthodoxy. No Mistakes in an Icon I was taught, one who writes icons cannot 'go back', ie rewrite an error or correct a drawing. Taken seriously ... Read More about Byzantine icons, Message or Revelation
One Event Can Change your Life.your life
When I came here in 1975, I knew no Spanish, I knew nothing about Mexico, I knew no one. I was alone in a new world. I had left behind my family and friends, the security of the Boston Museum of Fine Arts School and that miserable life I had been living. Thus kind of radical event can change your Life. I had gotten into San Miguel de Allende, Mexico well after midnight and woke up on Sunday to lots of loud Church bells. In the morning got dressed to explore around town, and find the ... Read More about One Event Can Change your Life.your life
Learn Spanish
Mary Jane Miller's latest book will delight the reader as well has help learn Spanish. The new book is a bi cultural adventure and true story set in Mexico on a Ranch outside of San Miguel de Allende in the early 70's. The Gomez family accepted her inability to understand what for her was a new world with tolerance and love. The Ranch book is a chronicle of ridiculously simple situations live out by a girl from Boston who was completely unprepared. Like Water for Chocolate, these ... Read More about Learn Spanish
On Being, Observing Stillness
These strange rocks I photographed while in New Zealand. Ironically most of them live under water for twelve hours each day as the tides comes in and out. Our whole self is seldom exposed in full. We are satisfied to have secret parts of ourselves unseen hidden under water. This became a perfect metaphor for a recent two month retreat; I focused on being, observing stillness. On the shore of Long Beach Bay in Auckland the rocks were hidden each day beneath the tide. If we try for a few hours of ... Read More about On Being, Observing Stillness
