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Reenchanted Earth
April 2008 
Taos Paintings
reenchantedearth
Here are some paintings that I have done for the Taos Arts Festival. I swore that I would never paint the church in Rancho de Taos, because it has been painted and photographed by everyone...Georgia O'Keeffe, Marsden Hartley, Ansel Adams and Paul Strand to name a few. When I took Bill there, so he could photograph it, I got sucked in by the lines, those irresistibly seductive curves. The front of the church is like most adobe churches, but the back! The back is phenomenal...the architecture so unique, and the way it captures the New Mexico sun and shadows...Before I knew it, I was sitting down and working away with all of the other artists. I took a bit more of a radical point of view for the paintings, so I am including some pics for you to see what I was looking at!
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Isn't it truly funny how something we resist so strongly inpsires beyond our ability to continue in resistance? Perhaps it is the power of that inspiration that almost frightens us at times.
Thank you for letting yourself be present to the moment and sharing such beauty. I particularly love the flowers, though.
Gini