August | 2025 | Redtree Times
10 posts published by redtreetimes during August 2025| Redtree Times
What did the tree learn from the earth to be able to talk with the sky? –Pablo Neruda, The Book of Questions Since we’re asking questions: Does the tree know it is a tree when it talks to the sky? Does the sky see any difference between the tree and you or me? When animals– […]| Redtree Times
Not only during the ascent, but also during the descent my willpower is dulled. The longer I climb the less important the goal seems to me, the more indifferent I become to myself. My attention has diminished, my memory is weakened. My mental fatigue is now greater than the bodily. It is so pleasant to […]| Redtree Times
“I have no right to call myself one who knows. I was one who seeks, and I still am, but I no longer seek in the stars or in books; I’m beginning to hear the teachings of my blood pulsing within me. My story isn’t pleasant, it’s not sweet and harmonious like the invented stories; […]| Redtree Times
Evolution advances, not by a priori design, but by the selection of what works best out of whatever choices offer. We are the products of editing, rather than of authorship. –George Wald,The Origin of Optical Activity (1957) I came across the quote above from George Wald (1906-1997) who was a Nobel Prize winning a scientist […]| Redtree Times
This is the true joy in life, the being used for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one ; the being thoroughly worn out before you are thrown on the scrap heap ; the being a force of Nature instead of a feverish selfish little clod of ailments and grievances complaining that the […]| Redtree Times
The worst sin that can be committed against the artist is to take him at his word, to see in his work a fulfillment instead of a horizon. –Henry Miller, The Cosmological Eye (1939) Love these words from Henry Miller. I think most people, artists included, look at a piece of art and see it […]| Redtree Times
GC Myers- Early Work, 1994 He was justifying his existence, than which life can do no greater; for life achieves its summit when it does to the uttermost that which it was equipped to do. –Jack London, White Fang From 2011: I had a nice email from a gentleman who sent me the image of painting done […]| Redtree Times
I say in speeches that a plausible mission of artists is to make people appreciate being alive at least a little bit. I am then asked if I know of any artists who pulled that off. I reply, ‘The Beatles did’. — Kurt Vonnegut, Timequake (1997) To make someone else appreciate the fact that they […]| Redtree Times
Freedom’s just another word for nothing left to lose… — Me and Bobby McGee, Kris Kristofferson That line from Me and Bobby McGee has echoed in my head for almost 55 years. One Christmas back then, Santa left me a new cassette player/recorder. It was a cheap plastic one, a Ross if my sometime spotty […]| Redtree Times
I long for scenes where man hath never trod A place where woman never smiled or wept There to abide with my Creator, God, And sleep as I in childhood sweetly slept, Untroubling and untroubled where…| Redtree Times
Solitude is the profoundest fact of the human condition. Man is the only being who knows he is alone, and the only one who seeks out another. His nature – if that word can be used in reference to m…| Redtree Times
Centuries of husbandry, decades of diligent culling, the work of numerous hearts and hands, have gone into the hackling, sorting, and spinning of this tightly twisted yarn. Furthermore, we have not…| Redtree Times
Summertime, and the livin’ is easy Fish are jumpin’ and the cotton is high Oh, your daddy’s rich and your ma is good-lookin’ So hush, little baby, don’t you cry One of…| Redtree Times
‘Cause I have all of life’s treasures and they’re fine and they’re goodThey remind me that houses are just made of woodWhat makes a house grand, oh, it ain’t the roof …| Redtree Times
The force that through the green fuse drives the flower Drives my green age; that blasts the roots of trees Is my destroyer. And I am dumb to tell the crooked rose My youth is bent by the same wint…| Redtree Times
NIghtFlare- At Principle Gallery Where rose the mountains, there to him were friends;Where rolled the ocean, thereon was his home;Where a blue sky, and glowing clime, extends,He had the passion and…| Redtree Times
States and Nations don’t exist as such. There are only people. Sets of people living in certain areas, having certain allegiances. Nations won’t change their national policies unless and until peop…| Redtree Times
To the Main Road- At Principle Gallery I knew that I had ample room in which to wander, since science has calculated the diameter of space to be eighty-four thousand million light years, which, whe…| Redtree Times
Pity the nation whose people are sheep And whose shepherds mislead them Pity the nation whose leaders are liars Whose sages are silenced And whose bigots haunt the airwaves Pity the nation that rai…| Redtree Times
Don’t think. Thinking is the enemy of creativity. It’s self-conscious, and anything self-conscious is lousy. You can’t try to do things. You simply must do things. — Ray Br…| Redtree Times
It’s akin to style, what I’m talking about, but it isn’t style alone. It is the writer’s particular and unmistakable signature on everything he writes. It is his world and no other. This is one of …| Redtree Times
The Wisdom Beyond Words- At Principle Gallery The hero adventures out of the land we know into darkness; there he accomplishes his adventure or again is simply lost to us, imprisoned, or in danger;…| Redtree Times
Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures. –Henry Ward Beecher, Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit (1887) As an artist, if you will allow to call mys…| Redtree Times
Often I think that however much I draw or paint, or however well, I am not an artist as art is generally understood. The abstract is meaningless to me save as a fragment of the whole, which is life…| Redtree Times
Thought I would share a recap of this past weekend at the Principle Gallery in the aftermath of my opening there on Friday evening. The opening itself was a bit more subdued than in previous years …| Redtree Times
Yesterday was a pretty long day and I find myself kind of whipped this morning so this is going to be a relatively short post. I will write more about the opening of my Entanglement show at the Pri…| Redtree Times
That conflict between the reach for the divine and the lure of earthly things was to be the central problem of the Middle Ages. –Barbara W. Tuchman, A Distant Mirror (1978) Historian Barbara …| Redtree Times
Concerning the work of artist GC Myers| Redtree Times
Come, and trip it as ye goOn the light fantastick toe… –John Milton, L’Allegro, (1645) Trip the light fantastic. From Milton’s 1645 poem, it originally meant to dance nimbly…| Redtree Times
