art Archives - Christina Irene

Weathering Your Epic Storm … on a Ship

3 Aug

Of late I’ve heard myself calling the coronavirus pandemic the tempest. That is, the storm. And images have come to me about riding out a storm in a great ship. Of course I realized I was thinking of Noah’s ark....
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Inspiration is Breath, Not Birth (a poem)

10 Jan

If the title sounds familiar, it’s because I wrote a blog entry on this topic a few years ago: Inspiration is Breath, Not Birth (How to Stay Inspired Forever) I also featured the concept in the final chapter of my...
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Art with Disability

8 Nov

My touring has mostly wound down for the season and I’ve been awarding myself a lot more time to do one of my favorite things: writing. I’m working on Splatvocate (the next Splat book, this time for advocates), but I’m...
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What’s better than saying “hello”? This….

11 Dec

A Khmer woman expressing arkoun on top of Phimeanakas Temple, of the Temples of Angkor in Cambodia

I try not to be the American jerk who shows up to another country and doesn’t bother to learn a spec of their language. So when I took my most recent international birthday adventure, I had ambitious plans to brush...
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Inspiration is Breath, Not Birth (How to Stay Inspired Forever)

21 Apr

How are you doing on your new year’s resolution? Have you ever had powerful motivation to do something and then just lost it? Unfortunately, it happens rather easily, and it happens to us all, all the time. Because inspiration is...
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Another Around (a poem)

13 Jan

For the second year in a row, I celebrated the turning of the year with my neighbors, friends, local community, and our dogs. My little town drops a giant piece of candy at a bonfire event. I was a little...
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