Jenny Mendes

somewhere i have never travelled, gladly beyond somewhere i have never travelled, gladly beyond any experience,your eyes have their silence: in your most frail gesture are things which enclose me, or which i cannot touch because they are too near your slightest look easily will unclose me though i have closed myself as fingers, you open always petal by petal myself as Spring opens (touching skilfully,mysteriously)her first rose or if your wish be to close me, i and my life will shut very beautifully ,suddenly, as when the heart of this flower imagines the snow carefully everywhere descending; nothing which we are to perceive in this world equals the power of your intense fragility:whose texture compels me with the color of its countries, rendering death and forever with each breathing (i do not know what it is about you that closes and opens;only something in me understands the voice of your eyes is deeper than all roses) nobody,not even the rain,has such small hands

It's a little random but you can see my google year in review in the link below.  Strange to get this message from my computer, as if it really knew something.  And yet, it does :)  You will have to click on the link below for it to play.... https://plus.google.com/photos/106064231491650189198/yearinphotos2014?authkey=CNaerIP0zaHFKw

Have  a lovely day whatever you are doing.....  xox

Winter Solstice 2014: 3 Things To Know About Pagan Yule Celebrations Winter Solstice & New Moon December 21st ~ A really powerful combination. This marks the beginning of a new cycle and the solstice is the darkest day, from 22nd Spring begins and this symbolizes new growth and beginnings for us, as well as coming out of the darkness and into the light. This is the time to really release what you need to in order to enter into a new cycle with less baggage, wounds  and general stuff that has been holding you back. A super powerful time to manifest what you want and to let go of what you no longer need, perfect timing for the New Year that is just around the corner.

Terracotta vase in the form of a bull, late Cypriot period (ca. 1450-1200BC), Cypriot

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Let this be a great week! I made this piece many years ago.  At least it feels that way, but I can't really remember.  Thanks Lynn Whipple for making such a nice photo!

A work in progress the topic suggested by a friend...  I will finish it later today.

Day 2 of my sale.... three trips to the post office yesterday.  Let it continue!   www.jennymendes.etsy.com

Once a year I have a sale and it's happening now.  Come see my new work.  If the links below don't work, here is a direct link to my shop:   www.jennymendes.etsy.com     The sale contines through Sunday! Annual Online End of Year Holiday Sale 2014 View this email in your browser Jenny Mendes Studio Online Sale December 10 - 14, 2014 Starting Wednesday Morning Ending Sunday Night Online Holiday Sale Click Here Prices will be reduced on everything in the store. Ceramic Art and Giclee Prints Jenny Mendes Ceramics www.jennymendes.com                                 My Links online store facebook blog web site Instagram Click Here for some mighty fine art work Store Links sculpture bowls and plates cups masks wal...

Spotted this old.lady that I made back in my college days, a portrait of my college roommate.  Embellished throughout the years... Now an English professor for over 20 years she days she has really grown to resemble my portrait which had a poem inscribed on it that she had written about my work...  It is so nice to reconnect with both of them, not to mention their darling imaginative incredibly verbal children.  I am having the best time, and the workshop seems to be going very well too! 

Maybe if I had listened to this before today so many things might have gone differently.  But of course it's always that way.  You know what you know when you are able to know it.  I should be more patient with myself, but I don't want to be.  I can feel time moving more quickly, every day. And I don't want to waste it.  At any rate, I made my way to this interview today, and honestly, it spoke to me and I was thankful to hear it.....and to begin a new journey.  The last several weeks were strange, difficult...a conflict, and then reconciliation.  I too know, that I have to struggle, and experience failures both in my artwork and life to make progress.  Sometimes for me, it's like I am at the end of a diving board up high, afraid to jump, fall, but then in the midst of falling I realize the beauty in my fear, and it all good.  So many jewels.  Please, when you have time, you may find something that will speak to you here......  N...

So that I stopped there astonished  by the great everywhere calling to me like an invisible  unspoken invitation radiating from where I stood, everything given and everything taken from me everything wanting and everything already given, the way I have come so far and the way I am still promised to go, within and without, something I was, and something I am now and will be forever, the sheer generosity of being loved through loving: the miracle reflection of a twice blessed life. © David Whyte: from CROSSING THE FLOOD 2014

A practice photo for my holiday sale which is coming up soon!  Not quite level.  I need to work on it!