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Faces, Places & Things

September 20, 2011

(“Dream Sequence-13″- 3″x 7” – Mixed Media/paper)

You ever wake-up in the morning and  feel like you’ve just come back from an exciting place? Or know that your dream had some  significant meaning, and you try to hold on to it, to remember it, before it fades away?

I do that often, in my dreaming and at times, in my conscious life. Dreams are especially hard to hold onto, with its colors or lack of color, feelings, sense of place, things and sometimes people. Which is why I keep a pad and pencil, on my night stand, to capture all the symbolism of  my dreams.

I think, that’s why I’m mesmerized by faces, places and things.

I find faces mesmerizing, they stay with me long after the person has left my vision scope. I’ve been accused of staring, but it’s because I’m putting that face into memory and the face has fascinated me in some way. Be it, the eyes, or that little space between the nose and the mouth, or their eyebrows.

I feel that way about places, too! When I travel, I feel the pulse of a place as it attaches itself to all my senses, it can be the food, the sounds, the scene, or the meeting of new people. A place has history and stories and my senses try to get a sense of it or add my own unique slant to it.

I have a fascination with things, also, since I’m used to be that  kid, who would come home with beautiful rocks, I may have found, or a brilliant color button, strings and that old fashioned key (I’m that adult that still puts found things in my pocket). These are things, I can pick up later and in that  instant, I’m back to that moment that I found that thing!

I am mesmerized by people, places and things…or maybe it’s just as my grandmother used to say, “Life, baby, it’s just life.”

What has you mesmerized, today? Is it just for today or are you always mesmerized by that person, place or thing?

I’m listening…

In peace, to you and yours.


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Category: Illustration Friday, News & Updates Tags: Dreams, Illustration Friday

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  1. Susan Drawbaugh said

    September 20, 2011 at 4:47 pm

    Wonderful take on the word!! Love your blog :o).

    • indigene1 said

      September 22, 2011 at 3:27 pm

      Susan, thanks so much! 🙂

  2. Artsnark said

    September 20, 2011 at 5:28 pm

    Great post & piece! I sometimes dream of a place made up of several spots I have traveled to. Instead of flying for hours I just round the corner to visit some of my favorite towns. I am always sad to wake from this dream, which is mesmerizing

    • indigene1 said

      September 22, 2011 at 3:28 pm

      Thank you! There are some dreams that we don't want to end; I've tried to go back to sleep and recapture it, but it does not work! 🙂

  3. Abby said

    September 20, 2011 at 7:35 pm

    I don't know what these symbols mean, but it does "feel" like a dream. Great illustration and thoughts for the prompt! Maybe I'm biased, but I think that artistic people are more in tuned to the people and places they come in contact with.

    • indigene1 said

      September 22, 2011 at 3:29 pm

      Thanks Abby! I think you're right about us being "In tuned"; at least that's what I've found among artists that I know!

  4. Laurie Knight said

    September 20, 2011 at 7:37 pm

    Your faces are the best. Wonderful post. I can definitely relate to what you wrote.

    • indigene1 said

      September 22, 2011 at 3:31 pm

      Wow! Thanks, Laurie! Your words, mean a lot!

  5. Elizabeth Stanton said

    September 20, 2011 at 10:03 pm

    I can relate to all the "mesmerizers" you mention! Especially faces!! This post rings very true!!

    • indigene1 said

      September 22, 2011 at 3:32 pm

      Thanks, Elizabeth, your creativity is wonderful!

  6. Mindful Drawing said

    September 21, 2011 at 12:21 am

    My daughter. She has always been mesmerizing…
    Are all daughters mesmerizing to their mums?

    • indigene1 said

      September 22, 2011 at 3:41 pm

      I know, what you mean! My daughter has me "mesmerized", too! But, so is my son! I think, because they are our greatest creations!

  7. spindelmaker said

    September 21, 2011 at 1:41 am

    You´ve changed your blog! It´s a brand new style! Funny how a background color, a heading and the shiffeling about of text, how it changes "everything". Maybe that´s what mesmerizing me today, how the visual surroundings alter the perception of a message, say in a blog-post 🙂

    • indigene1 said

      September 22, 2011 at 3:34 pm

      Lol! It's been awhile, Janne! Thank you so much! I'm still enjoying my mouse pad! 🙂

  8. Linda Hensley said

    September 22, 2011 at 8:40 am

    I think we must be an awful lot alike. I tend to have pockets full of rocks and found things too, and I write down my dreams when I wake up too. Great post. I'm not sure what to say about the art because it's so personal, which makes it perfect without comment, right?

    • indigene1 said

      September 22, 2011 at 3:35 pm

      I think you're right, Linda. I so enjoy reading your posts, too! It is the personal, that adds that something, extra.

  9. Melissa Mackie said

    September 22, 2011 at 2:55 pm

    I can relate to what you are saying. I have a collection of things around me which mesmerize me and that is dear to me. Great post!

  10. indigene1 said

    September 22, 2011 at 3:37 pm

    Thanks so much Melissa. My collection of things, bring such contentment to me, as I'm sure yours does, too!

  11. Amanda Mills said

    September 25, 2011 at 5:07 am

    what a lovely IF- your faces always look so, spiritual – I have always found that certain something… (like a spark) that gives the portrait the real sense, in that you can look at the face and see the soul

    as a kid
    water … i used to love to watch the rain overflowing the gutters during a storm,
    textures in cobblestone streets,
    rocks, and shells
    now
    my children are mesmerizing,
    clouds/sunsets (so much i need to remind myself to keep my eyes on the road!)
    butterflies
    patterns
    and on and on 🙂

    • Indigene said

      September 26, 2011 at 11:56 am

      Thanks so much, Amanda! I love that you created something here! 🙂

  12. Sharon Wagner said

    September 26, 2011 at 10:07 am

    I dreamed about Hugh Laurie and his character in "House" last night. Weird.

    • Indigene said

      September 26, 2011 at 11:57 am

      Lol! Sharon, that character would make anyone dream about him! 🙂

  13. bella sinclair said

    October 18, 2011 at 3:03 pm

    Ooh, I love the symbols here! Very mystical. You have such wonderful artistic energy, Indigene. And the thought that you're sometimes caught 'staring' makes me smile. Oh, if they only knew. How flattered they would be!

  14. indigene1 said

    October 19, 2011 at 6:21 am

    Thanks Bella! You're so kind and wonderful! Yeah, the staring thing, as my family calls it…has put me into embarrassing situations! lol! Which is why I do so many portraits of women, since staring at men, could get me into lots of trouble! lol!

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