Live performance of Symphonic Poem #2

I’m so pleased to have met Grisha Krivchenia, composer and musical artist. He left my studio with a portfolio of Symphonic Poem Paintings and I look forward to hearing his inspired music. Stay tuned… more to come from our collaboration.

Please check out his web site and upcoming performances: http://www.grishakrivchenia.com

On Wednesday, April 1st, the beautiful home and studio I owned for 15 years sold.
Amongst the cottonwoods in the small village of Galisteo, NM
Within the straw bale and clay walls of this property
I lived and worked
I loved and thrived
I experienced the life and death of a marriage.
This Lunar Eclipse leaves behind a story that no longer needs to be told.
With peace I say Good Bye.
This Full Moon lights the way for a new beginning.
I am asking… what sparks joy in my life?

Great power triad of energy happening.
Before going to sleep last night, I opened and looked through the book,
QUADRIVIUM – THE FOUR CLASSICAL LIBERAL ARTS OF NUMBER, GEOMETRY, MUSIC, & COSMOLOGY.
“The Quadrivium was the first formulated and taught by Pythagoras as the Tetraktys around 500 BC, in a community where all were equal, materially and morally, and where women had equal status to men. It was the first European schooling structure that honed education down to seven essential subjects, later know as the seven liberal arts.
The word ‘education” comes from the Latin educere meaning ‘to lead out’, pointing to the central doctrine of Socrates, under Plato’s pen, elucidated so clearly – Knowledge is an inherent and intrinsic part of pure soul structure…. based on the cardinal and objective values of Truth, Beauty, and Goodness… This in turn leads to the essential harmonious value of Wholeness”.
Had an excellent night’s sleep while the earth turned under a new moon and the sun eclipsed.
Right now, Winter is saying, Fare Thee Well to Spring entering with splendor!

I am have just completed a new “suite” of Symphonic Poems that consists of
40 watercolors on musical score paper and 40 sacred geometry drawings in black ink and colored pencil.
The pieces were done a day at a time in the same order: first a painting then a corresponding drawing.
They are in a 3-ring binder so I’ve yet to see the piece in it’s entirety.
Looking for a large space with clean floors so I can see what this all looks like laid out in a big grid.
The excitement of being an artist is endless!

This evening, my brother, Louis Markoya, is giving a slide lecture at Washington and Lee University, VA. A retrospective of his work as an artist, Strange Attractors, is on exhibit February 16 – March 20.

During the time he was speaking, I sat quietly in my studio in Santa Fe and read everything on his web site to be connected with this celebration of a remarkable man and his art.

Here is a link to his web site … enjoy the “trip”:  http://www.louismarkoya.com

Stand at the door
knowing you will enter
when it opens.
Sit at the shore
knowing you will swim
when the tides change.

Tend the gardens of gifts
and watch the blessings
grow and manifest
in miraculous
and magical
forms…
The way of Nature.