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Category: Creativity

Creativity

On The Cutting Room Floor

This piece is titled “The Cutting Room” which is sooo META Here’s the story: The artwork was “done” and I submitted photos for a gallery show (the tan…

April 11, 2025April 11, 2025 · 2 min read

Creativity

Channeling

Finding out your life has been running on a cacophony of ideas from everyone and everything you’ve ever heard, means you just woke up to your ability to…

April 2, 2025April 2, 2025 · 1 min read

“Fielding Pi” by Elizabeth Mullen Matteson. Digital Symbol Work comprised of digital markup fingerpainting on original photo.
Coaching

Open Hope

Not everyone grew up with the privilege of taking Hope for granted. Hope is a thing of children, even in rough places. It’s a thing of the child…

March 21, 2025March 21, 2025 · 2 min read

Oranges in the mythic waters. Art by Elizabeth Mullen Matteson featuring a scrolled canvas by Richard Fraenkel
Creativity

Mythic Oranges, Waters, and WWII

“Imagine That” Today’s art is in honor of an amazing painter and gentle man, Richard Fraenkel. He was my painting instructor in college. He told quiet stories. He…

March 12, 2025March 12, 2025 · 3 min read

Coaching

Truth telling in little bits

Focus, the folly of first-ness, and how symbolic truth-telling connects us to our souls and each other. If any one artist works with the truth of their lives,…

March 2, 2025March 3, 2025 · 4 min read

St John the Baptist by Leonardo da Vinci
Coaching

Renaissance Warriors

I’m going to tell you right now that you are a modern day Renaissance Warrior. This is because you can do many, many things very well. This includes…

February 24, 2025February 24, 2025 · 4 min read

Creativity

Rebellion | emergence from dark into light

Why new voices from the subconscious matter to all of us. I admire teenagers and young people who rail against every day culture and bring new music and…

February 18, 2025February 20, 2025 · 5 min read

Creativity

Terms of Endearment – Patron

And notes on creativity as a practice. Patron = Pat Ron (an additional pat on the head to everyone who supports the work of artists) Yesterday, while discussing…

February 16, 2025February 18, 2025 · 3 min read

Creativity

Terms of Endearment – Article

Article = Art + Miracle I’ve been at a loss how to brand myself as a maker of digital stuffs, so I’m not going to do it.1 And…

February 10, 2025February 12, 2025 · 2 min read

Body & Health

A Prompt for Nature Knowledge

Some days I walk through the woods and wonder “what is nature telling me today?” The answers are always simple. Nature tells me that old needles fall off,…

February 5, 2025February 5, 2025 · 1 min read

Creativity

Terms of Endearment – Acceptance

This is a Terms of Endearment (TOE) post. These are words that keep coming up that I find myself re-defining for my own relief, amusement, and insight. Acceptance…

January 31, 2025January 30, 2025 · 2 min read

Coaching

Take back the alphabet & re-write your life

How work with the most basic building blocks in order to elevate your communication. I’ve always seen the alphabet as a beautiful grouping of shapes and fascinating set…

January 27, 2025January 27, 2025 · 5 min read

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