Delicious Autumn!

"Delicious Autumn!
My very soul is wedded to it,
and if I were a bird,
I would fly by about the earth seeking the successive autumns."
-George Eliot

Living With Diabetes

As we were having a lovely day in the park...living our lives to the fullest, I caught a glimpse of Meech's strong, beautiful hands in the sunlight and wanted to capture them on film forever. As I was focusing my lens, I read his bracelet and then had a moment of sadness as I was reminded how tenuous and fragile his life is in the midst of diabetes. Somehow I think all that came through in this image...

He Likes The Blonde Highlights In My Hair

A quick sketch after having lunch with a former Professor!

Sewn Together

"Chains do not hold a marriage together. It is threads, hundreds of tiny threads, which sew people together through the years." - Simone Signoret

A View Of Michele's Imagination...

"The function of the imagination is not to make strange things settled,
so much as to make settled things strange."
-G.K. Chesterton

Sharing The "Art" Of Screenprinting

After a day of screenprinting bowling shirts for Zach's birthday party, I decide to teach Michele how to print for real, G-style!


Many beers and sips of wine later, we complete our masterpiece with much glee...


Wouldn't be art, unless we were covered in pigments from head to toe, right?

Out Of Focus...

"You can't depend on your judgement when
your imagination is out of focus." - Mark Twain

Tools Become Art!

The morning light is so incredible in my studio. The glorious sun highlights my textile inks and t-pins and such and brings them to life in my eyes. Makes every idea seem possible...

For Suzanne and Kai

Everyday Is The Gift

(a work in progress)

Inspired by my friend & artist Suzanne and her BEAUTIFUL words http://sperlygirl.wordpress.com/and her little boy Kai who seems to love bubbles and life and the gift of every little wonderful moment just as much as I do!

Thank you...

SushiDough!

"What a strange machine man is! You fill him with bread, wine, fish, and

radishes, and out comes sighs, laughter, and dreams." -Nikos Kazantzakis

'Playdough Sushi' made by Riley and Zoe before we broke for bread...laughter...and dreams...one August Night in Savannah!

Trying Something New

Adding On
Gina Caraviello
36" x 36"
Acrylic on Canvas
July 13, 2007


"Though no one can go back and make a brand new start, anyone can start from now and make a brand new ending." - Anonymous

I'm Sure This Is About A Windmill...

There it goes again
spinning around and around
and AROUND
Perpetually spinning
as long as there is
movement in the air.

Oh, now it's stopped again,
a pregnant pause
waiting...
for that slight breath
of life
to bring back it's m o t i on .

A Self-Portrait?

The Victim
Gina Caraviello
36" x 48"
Acrylic on Canvas
June 25, 2007


"You can out-distance that which is running after you, but not what is running inside you."
-Rwandan Proverb

Tired of Haiku, She Moves On To Tanka...

Fingers worn ragged,
restless and unsatisfied
can't get enought TEXT...
Crazed, she raises her white flag,
and feigns R e n u n c i a t i o n !

iBuddha?

"Oh Yes, Enlightened One...share all your music files...skip the Nirvana!"

Do you think less of me now that you know I don't want any Nirvana on my shuffle? I just never got "in" to that band like everyone else did in College. (Now, give me some FooFighters...)

Alas, my little makeshift shrine keeps me in good company. This jade Buddha came all the way from China via my dear friend Michele. The iPodshuffles came all the way from China too...via iCoolcapitalism.

Maybe I should paint my Buddha white and stick an apple logo on its fanny? My guess is that doing that wouldn't help me a bit spiritually, but OMG the music sure does...

Can you hear the music?

"And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music. "
-Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

Euphony
Gina Caraviello
23" x 42"
Textile Ink, Cotton Fabric
2006

Mmmmm, Lickety Splits!

I didn't dare venture into this destination spot @ Stone Mountain.

Wasn't quite sure what I'd get???

What'll you have?

PBR in a can, damn it!
Or maybe just one for the road...or maybe a C.I.H.T. shot just like I got in College...or maybe I'll just take a big inhale and get drunk off the fumes?
Boy, the more things change, the more they stay the same.
I think I'll have more of THAT!

Morning Ramblings...

The early morning seems to be the best time to tune in to my inner-G (ha) and periodically get my thoughts in order. I like it when it's just barely daylight outside and the babies have yet to rise. It's always been the right time for...ME. But this morning, there are loud doves "cooing" outside my window -- bathing in the pool -- trying to get their day started too, I guess. And, instead of focusing on my thoughts, my obligations, my life, I'm sitting here wondering...

What kind of thoughts cross their minds??? Are they checking off to-do lists in their tiny dove heads? Instead of serene "coos", are they just gabbing about the dove down the street or talking shite about Paris Hilton getting jail time? Perhaps, they are trying to tell me their thoughts on world hunger or global warming? Maybe they have a dove-secret they are trying to share -- if I would just listen?

Well, maybe I will...just for a little while...

Colors of Creativity

"Kids don't have to be told, they instinctively see the possibilites."
~ Satyebdra Pakhale