sleeping gown and glasses

drawing my mother

 

Jon in blue

 

Jon in front of the wall

Jon in front of the wall, acrylic on paper

 

you don't have to box yourself up

 

your trying will not fail you

 

the little compartments of our mind

 

bye!

Image-making

an animation made in 2021

I had been listening to public speeches by Krishnamurti on Thought, Relationship, Conflicts and Image-making. When I made this animation I was thinking about some of the things he had said, which made sense to me. 

here is an excerpt on his lecture - 

Why does the mechanism of image-making come into being? 

Public Talk 3 Ojai, California, USA - 08 April 1978 

"So is it possible not to create images about the other? First of all one must realise that we do have images. Then to ask, how do these images come into being? We explained that, that thought in its very nature is a broken-up thing, a fragment. It's like a vase which is a marvellous thing and is broken, and a little piece of that vase thinks that it can put together the totality of life. So thought, which is born of memory, memory being knowledge, experience, thought is in its very essence the past, and so when you observe another through the eyes of the past you are not observing at all."

check out the full speech here https://www.jkrishnamurti.org/content/why-does-mechanism-image-making-come-being

they are all talking at me

 an animation I made in 2021 or 2022... 

the cat came to visit

 I made a video using some paintings I made in 2021, and an improvised tune on my ukulele.

blue moon heart

welcome home, Sammy!

 Dear Mr Whale,

Sammy is home! I am so happy to see him!

I can feel his ribcage under his thick wool, but he seems pretty healthy.

I hope he will stop his wandering one day. But no one can stop a free spirit...

Do you think Sammy is a free spirit or just another lost sheep, Mr Whale?

With big Sammy hugs to you,

Auntie Joo

PS. I was so overjoyed seeing Sammy I accidentally squeezed out too much blue paint. So I ended up giving Loretta blue eye shadows. I think they go well with her wet hair.

you gotta see

Dear Mr Whale,

It is a gray day today. Overcast.

Sometimes the light is too bright and....it is hard to see.

In the dim light I see.

In the darkness I see.

Yours sincerely,

Auntie Joo