janet st. john

Inspired by Kim Manley Ort's Adventures in Seeing 2: Focus Habit 5: Get Curious Kim’s exercises got me asking a lot of questions in August, including a recur...

Inspired by Kim Manley Ort's Adventures in Seeing 2: Focus Habit 4: Pay Attention This month, again with inspiration from Kim Manley Ort’s book, Adventures i...

Inspired by Adventures in Seeing (Kim Manley Ort). 1: Pause Habit 3: Acceptance This month, Kim Manley Ort’s contemplative habit focused on acceptance and th...

Inspired by Adventures in Seeing (Kim Manley Ort). 1: Pause Habit 2: Be Humble I spent the past month considering the ideas in, and experimenting taking phot...

In an attempt to expand my ways of seeing and being in the world, I have been working with Kim Manley Ort's Adventures in Seeing. Following the exercises she...

Happy Spring, Art & Soul Readers! As trees and bushes bud, treasured irises get close to blooming, and the New Mexico winds whir and swirl, I'm getting ready...

Photograph by Kim Manley-Ort Cradle of Life Clara found the hollow place while walking. At the north edge of her family’s eastern Nebraska dairy farm, she saw...

Pandora There is a woman and a box. She is curious. It is closed. Is it a gift? An honor? A secret? She recognizes temptation when she sees it. Sky, pastel m...

https://history.denverlibrary.org/denver-building-history-tutorial Break It Down Again Nothing was wrong with the house, but he wanted to fix it. He worked w...

Dancers. e. e. cummings (American, Cambridge, Massachusetts 1894–1962 North Conway, New Hampshire). ca. 1922. Ink and graphite on paper. H. 25-1/8, W. 19-3/8...

I Saw the Figure 5 in Gold. Charles Demuth (American, Lancaster, Pennsylvania 1883–1935 Lancaster, Pennsylvania). 1928. Oil, graphite, ink, and gold leaf on ...

Emil Orlik (German, 1870 – 1932) Oasis in the Desert. c.1913 Drypoint and roulette printed in light brown on laid cream paper 11.7 × 19.8 cm (4 5/8 × 7 13/16...

Carlos Anderson (American, born 1905). Published by WPA. 1935–43. Lithograph. 11 1/2 x 15 1/2 in. (29.2 x 39.4 cm) sheet: 14 1/2 x 18 1/2 in. (36.8 x 47 cm)....

Lion Sleeping. Antoine-Louis Barye (French, Paris 1796–1875 Paris). 1810–75. Watercolor on wove paper, lined sheet: 9 3/16 x 11 5/8 in. (23.3 x 29.5cm). Cour...

Pixabay.com. Public Domain Image. Waiting for Rain White vapor, turns grey, builds over the mountains. Invisible hand stirs the atmospheric pot. Air, water p...

The Afternoon Meal (La Merienda). Luis Meléndez (Spanish, Naples 1716–1780 Madrid). ca. 1772. Oil on canvas. 41 1/2 x 60 1/2 in. (105.4 x 153.7 cm). Courtesy...

Winter Scene in Moonlight. Henry Farrer (American, London 1844–1903 New York). 1869 Watercolor and gouache on white wove paper. 11 7/8 x 15 3/16 in. (30.2 x ...

Utagawa Hiroshige.(1797–1858 Tokyo) Edo period (1615–1868) ca. 1833–34. Polychrome woodblock print; ink and color on paper. 9 15/32 x 14 in. (24.1 x 35.6 cm)...

Burned Tree, Western Oregon. Ansel Easton Adams (1902–1984). 1960. Black and white instant print. 11.1 x 8.7 cm. Rights and Reproduction: © Photograph by Ans...

Sidewalk. Janet St. John. 2017 I didn’t know what the cracks represented, nor the lines diagonally dividing this space from that, one step from another. Leav...