Jackie Chaiken

Limitations

2012-02-03T13:40:00.000-08:00

"I think limitations are beautiful. I think limitations are where poetry comes from and almost all creative thinking."

Jimmy Joes - Bennington, VT -

2012-01-27T23:00:00.000-08:00

“all right
buddah gets a backstage pass
but all his friends have to pay”
― Jim Carroll, Void of Course

“You see, you just don't know
I'm here to give you my heart
And you want some fashion show”

― Jim Carroll - Poet

Jim Carroll - Jimmy Joes and Wicked Chili Man

A visit to Robert Frost's graveside

2012-01-26T21:00:00.000-08:00

"I had a lovers quarrel with the world"

The Sound of Trees

Robert Frost

I wonder about the trees.

Why do we wish to bear

Forever the noise of these

More than another noise

So close to our dwelling place?

We suffer them by the day

Till we lose all measure of pace,

And fixity in our joys,

And acquire a listening air.

They are that that talks of going

But never gets away;

And that talks no less for knowing,

As it grows wiser and older,

That now it means to stay.

My feet tug at the floor

And my head sways to my shoulder

Sometimes when I watch trees sway,

From the window or the door.

I shall set forth for somewhere,

I shall make the reckless choice

Some day when they are in voice

And tossing so as to scare

The white clouds over them on.

I shall have less to say,

But I shall be gone.

Bennington, VT - Way out of my comfort zone

2012-01-26T20:51:00.000-08:00

Sean Kernan Workshop - Vermont

2011-12-06T12:32:00.001-08:00

Seriality 2012

2011-11-01T21:26:00.000-07:00

Live the Questions

2009-12-22T07:01:00.000-08:00

... have patience with everything unresolved in your heart and to try to love the questions themselves as if they were locked rooms or books written in a very foreign language. Don't search for the answers, which could not be given to you now, because you would not be able to live them. And the point is to live everything. Live the questions now. Perhaps then, someday far in the future, you will gradually, without even noticing it, live your way into the answer.

Rainer Maria Rilke, 1903in Letters to a Young Poet

Indifference

2009-11-21T04:01:00.000-08:00

Wondering about the cost of indifference.

Ben Harper and Eddie Veeder

Looking for inspiration, and finding it.

2009-09-16T20:54:00.001-07:00

Final 30 Seconds o Me

2009-09-10T15:43:00.000-07:00

I am happy to put this project to bed, and I love everything that I got from looking at the same still frames over and over and over again.

Click here to see the final video cut

Happy to be back in the studio again

2009-09-04T09:24:00.000-07:00

I love that nature has a sense of humor.

Quiet - finally

2009-08-21T20:17:00.000-07:00

A lovely meditation on nothing

click here to hear, and see.

Birds in Formaiton

2009-08-07T10:41:00.000-07:00

Nice to know that even birds are confused and disorderly sometimes.

Beach Bird on a Wire

2009-08-03T06:28:00.000-07:00

I am practicing seeing like this everyday. Looking down seeing, the big picture, while living on the ground in the details - appreciating both perspectives. Its great when I am actually successful.

Stop and See

2009-07-31T05:36:00.000-07:00

I am always happy to be awake at sunrise to help me remember how quickly beauty comes and goes, and I need to stop and notice, and capture it - forever.

Love in the Garden

2009-07-30T16:41:00.001-07:00

I can't stop focusing on three's these days - literally and figuratively. I love that it looks like the mushrooms are holding hands.

My First Graduate School Show

2009-07-29T06:07:00.000-07:00

This is one of 24 panels for a piece I am creating for my first graduate school art show. The piece is going to be 8 feet by 6 feet. I like to start big apparently. It is called 30 Seconds To Me - for the moment and is about memory, memories, and how it and they change.

Click here to see a very rough cut video for the project

GARDEN

2009-07-28T08:05:00.000-07:00

I was so happy today to see life in my garden. I am still amazed when I see nourishment grow from dirt. Makes you want to plant seeds everywhere, doesn't it.

Laura

2009-07-23T16:41:00.000-07:00

2 eggs = 50 cents,

1 tomato = 20 cents,

1/2 jalapeno = 15 cents

having someone take their time to make you breakfast, priceless.

Thinking About 1/2 Finished Projects

2009-07-22T07:47:00.001-07:00

Ideas, projects, thoughts, and people all seem to show back up in my life when I need them to. I am always happy when I am awake enough to notice.

WhoMadeWho - Keep Me In My Plane Video

2009-07-22T00:00:00.000-07:00

Fun Song, great video - click here to watch it

Amazing rendition of The Prayer with Andrea Bocelli & Heather Headley

2009-07-21T00:03:00.000-07:00

Watch it here.

Great Thought for The Day

2009-07-20T05:57:00.000-07:00

Priscilla Ahn - Dream

2009-07-17T18:59:00.000-07:00

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ed_IPf2YECc

An Artist I Can't Get Out of My Mind

2009-07-17T02:55:00.000-07:00

I ran across this incredible artist the other day, and I can't get her images out of my head. Her name is Julie Heffernan and you can see some of her images here

http://www.artslant.com/global/artists/show/5764-julie-heffernan .

Alexi Murdoch

2009-07-16T15:37:00.000-07:00

A great song,

www.youtube.com/watch?v=WI_9czYEY4s

Check out Folio Hunt

2009-07-16T15:28:00.001-07:00

My floral work will be featured next week on the website

http://www.foliohunt.com/2009/07/jackie-chaiken-dallas-texas/

Found Not Poetry #1

2009-02-05T14:07:00.001-08:00

Today I am sure, tomorrow, I am not so sure

2009-01-05T12:22:00.001-08:00