Monthly Archives: March 2014
Míla Fürstová… Where Art meets Poetry!
Artist’s Statement
My work is an intimate portrayal of the human soul explored through the medium of etching, expressed in a distinctly female voice.
The content is inspired by universal and personal mythologies. The work is poetic and often narrative in its nature and reads as both contemporary and timeless. I cut, fold and overlay my works, often printing on glass or other transparent surfaces thus creating imagery that is multidimensional in terms of both form and meaning.
The feminine voice of my work is tactile and urgent, fragile yet strong, gentle yet enquiring. At times it floats weightlessly above the labyrinth of being a woman at other times it delves into the darkest corners of the female psyche.
The technique of etching uniquely reflects and informs the spirit of my work. I draw with a needle onto a plate, allowing the image to quietly grow, whilst a fragile silver line emerges from a dark background as if a distant memory was traced from the unconscious. The initial image undergoes metamorphosis as the alchemical process of etching progresses through each of its stages.
Míla Fürstová MA RCA, RWA
Spring in my Heart
This is an ideal I bring to my life day after day in a constant search for happiness and effort to become a more beautiful soul…
Spring has finally arrived. Time for re-birth and flourish!
In Memoriam L´Wren Scott
SONNET XVIII, W. SHAKESPEARE
Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day?
Thou art more lovely and more temperate:
Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May,
And summer’s lease hath all too short a date:
Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines,
And often is his gold complexion dimm’d;
And every fair from fair sometime declines,
By chance, or nature’s changing course, untrimm’d;
But thy eternal summer shall not fade
Nor lose possession of that fair thou ow’st;
Nor shall Death brag thou wander’st in his shade,
When in eternal lines to time thou grow’st;
So long as men can breathe or eyes can see,
So long lives this, and this gives life to thee.
… Wishing that L´Wren Scott rests in peace
My workshop on Relationships with Donnalynn Civello @ 3WCircle
How to Find Love and Keep It, by Nikki Mendell | 3WCircle Marketing Director
Nikki Mendell | 3WCircle Marketing Director
When looking for a loving relationship, beware of the danger of inertia. When we face a disappointment or hurdle, it may be tempting to shut down. After a bad date, a fight, or a breakup, you might crawl into bed, grab a pint of ice cream, and dive into a House of Cards marathon. You may spend all of your time blaming him for how he failed you. You may get discouraged after drinks with another weirdo. That is inertia.
This week in our most recent 3WCircleWorkshop, “The Magic Behind Real Loving Relationships (With Yourself and Others),” Donnalynn Civello, Executive Director of Ethereal Wellness and Certified Intuitive Life Coach, taught us that instead of letting hard situations set you back, you have to find a way to keep moving forward.
The group of women at the workshop, both in and seeking relationships, learned the how living a dynamic life leads to healthy relationships. Think of it like this: You get what you give.
Here are a few of Donnalynn’s key rules to having a healthy, loving relationship:
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Key Rule #1: Learn to love yourself first. Learn what makes you awesome and what you love about yourself – Are you a great listener? Do you always remember your recyclable grocery bag? Have you perfected your Warrior III pose? There are so many reasons to love yourself and it is important to recognize them. If you don’t love you, how will someone else love you?
If you have fallen prey to inertia, you may be stuck sending that negative energy into the world. Negative energy doesn’t attract anyone (or at least anyone you want to spend the rest of you life with). Remember that each bad relationship is a lesson, and after the lesson comes the work: analyzing what went wrong, why it went wrong, and how you will change.
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Key Rule #2: If you don’t change after a lesson, you will attract the same problems.Nobody is perfect, and no matter how much work you’ve done on self-improvement or self-love, there is always more work to be done. “You will be tested.” If you keep moving forward on your life journey and striving for positivity you are more likely to pass the test. Remember, Donnalynn says: “Sometimes a failed relationship can be the best thing to ever happen to you.”
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Key Rule #3: If it doesn’t work out with someone, it wasn’t supposed to. One day when the time is right – after the work and the lessons – you will find a relationship.
Ok so let’s say you’ve done the work, learned to love yourself, and finally found THE ONE. You’ve won half the battle, but now you have to keep the relationship thriving by continuing to invest in YOU throughout the the relationship.
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Key Rule #4: Keep Yourself Fresh. Avoid losing yourself in a partner by focusing on your path of improvement because the same exciting qualities that made you an attractive partner in the first place will continue to keep the spark alive.
Everyone walked out of the room last night with a new goal in mind – one woman was heading off to a date with a new perspective on how to put her best self forward. Another left with a plan on how to communicate with her partner about their sex life. All agreed to follow Donnalynn’s advice to “communicate kindly, compassionately, and constructively.”
Which of Donnalynn’s key rules do you want to focus on? Are there any love rules that you abide by in your life? Tell us in the comments below.
To learn more of Donnalynn’s rules and tips on how to attract and keep the right relationship, we encourage you to visit her website: www.ethereal-wellness.com and follow her on Twitter at @dlcivello
… you have to change the channel yourself.
Nothing good ever comes easily in life. Nothing. If you want greatness, you have to work at it. In our society we have become lazy at navigating our lives.
We prefer to sit back and press FAST FORWARD through the uncomfortable bits to get to our goals.
We prefer to hit REWIND and sit stuck in past relationships and situations that have long outlived their purpose in our lives.
But what we do not do enough of is to hit PLAY and live in the moment and realize that as we are trying to fast forward our lives, we are missing the spaces in between that could change us. And when we are looking back at the REWIND, we are not allowing ourselves to grow and evolve forward in the moment.
Living life in PLAY mode makes people uncomfortable because they cannot control the outcome. Life’s outcomes are NEVER meant to be controlled. They are meant to be lived through and experienced deeply. You can only live your best life in PLAY mode.
Life has no remote. If you allow it to play out, you will be brought to the most optimal conclusion for your highest good. If you try and use the remote, you may just allow your free will to take you on a ride.
Time to throw out the remote. Be in the moment and allow your best life to play out. Your transformation will happen while life is playing out before your very eyes. Are you ready to play?
Joe Sorren: inspiring a new genre of art
ART / MARCH 7 2014
by Creative Boom
‘Lowbrow’ is something that sprung up in the late 1970s in Los Angeles. The populist, underground art movement was often called ‘pop surrealism’ and originally came about because LA was unrestrained from following any of the usual art rules that you’d often find in art meccas such as New York or Paris. Besides, LA could never compete with those places, hence the need to find its own way.
There’s often a cheeky sense of humour to Lowbrow – sometimes gleeful, sometimes impish, and sometimes sarcastic. Today, Lowbrow continues thanks to the intriguing works of American artist Joe Sorren, who transports viewers into a mysterious world of odd, impish characters and imaginative environments with his illustrative oil paintings.
Sorren shows us that there is as much intrigue and mystery in the lighter elements of life as there are in the darker realities of humanity. This month, he will be showing at AFA of SoHo in New York City for “Knock Three Times”, a new exhibition with 10 new paintings plus a collection of graphics including a new print entitled “Begin the Beguine”. The event is free and open to the public. Watch the video below to hear more from the artist.
Imaginary Land 