Category Archives: metal art

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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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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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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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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New Directions

I’ve been missing for a while.  Pulled in different directions and, truth be told, burnt out.  The work felt redundant, tired, and well, like work.  So I took a break.  4 months later, I am back in my studio full … Continue reading

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ART = What?

It is almost 3 AM. Snow was forecast, but instead, a sloppy rain, the hint of winter coming. Slowly. I spent the holiday in California. On a beach, by a pool, in the arms of my love. The first such … Continue reading

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Dead or alive

I am thinking tonight about Charles Bukowski, Janice Joplin, freedom. Freedom to write, to sing, to walk away. Bukowski said, “An intellectual is a man who says a simple thing in a difficult way. An artist is a man who … Continue reading

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Time….

Time gets away from me and as it slips, so do I. A running battle between will and the inevitable but my will seems to slip as fast as the hours. It could be enough sometimes (I think) just to … Continue reading

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