Category Archives: Santa Fe sculptor

Writing at a different location

Hi All, Over the last several months, I have been blogging at my new address:  www.shapingdestinythebook.com  It is hard to blog in multiple places and I’ve concentrated my efforts in art, writing, and life at one location. I hope you … Continue reading

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The Book Launch

  My new book, Shaping Destiny:  A quest for meaning  will launch officially on March 16 at 6 pm at Collected Works Bookstore in Santa Fe, NM. Shaping Destiny is about the conflicts between who we were taught to be … Continue reading

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Why Art is So Expensive

This morning, I opened my email to discover a letter from someone with whom I had been corresponding about their interest in one of my paintings.  I was hoping that the potential client was ready to make a decision.  What … Continue reading

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In addition to everything else, I’m working on a book

I wrote Shaping Destiny 10 years ago and couldn’t finish it.  I was too close.  Now, I think its time to get it into the world.  Here’s a sample.  Let me know what you think: Chapter 1 Night was when my lack … Continue reading

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New things in the works

There are some changes under way.  I just opened Destiny Allison Fine Art in La Tienda in Eldorado (just outside Santa Fe).  Now, all my worlds are under one roof.  Its pretty amazing and its very cool to be doing … Continue reading

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Lover’s touch

We made love under the stars in a light, warm wind.  Ray Charles, Norah Jones, Van Morrison and KT Lang on the ipod.  Sometimes touch is soul stirring, the indelible imprints altering us somehow forever.  Later, watching city lit clouds drift across the sky, I … Continue reading

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Painting with Acid

 It is late afternoon and I am listening to Beethoven.  The gardens are watered, and though they are filled with weeds and gopher holes, there is promise in them. I have been working for the last three weeks on totally new … Continue reading

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Minimalism

It snowed last night.  The cold creeping, insipid in the dark, through the quilts and the tangled bones of memory reawakened.  We gnawed on the marrow of old wounds.  Shivering.     We don’t have quilts. Or memories that we share.  … Continue reading

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The First Step

The thing about not traveling all the time is that the movement becomes internal.  An undulating river of emotions, ideas, fleeting thoughts, flashes of possibilities.  Sometimes its hard to know what’s real, what course to follow, where to go and even … Continue reading

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New Work

The incorporation of organic media into the work has opened some new doors in my metal sculpture.  These are some of the pieces I have been talking about in my last few posts.  To see the difference between these works … Continue reading

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