Alwynart and the Art of SOUL PLAY

On my other blog, LEA ( click to visit it), I have all the things that I offer in terms of performing and transforming arts. I call it LEA for Living Experiential Art and also for Lifepaths, Empathy and Astrology.



That blog is in german. If anyone is interested in having any of that information in english, email me at alwynart@googlemail.com.



This blog here is more for the visual art I am doing and for poetry. There are really exciting things that I will be able to write about soon!!!!!



Love from Deirdre



Montag, 25. April 2011

Alina and Jerry, Katie and Lara


Eric with beard

Doug, Hannah's father


Christa, the manizer


Tess, Hannah's mother


Alina Santini (Doug's mother, Hannah's grandmother)


Jerry Santini (Doug's father, Hannah's grandfather)


Katie (who lives in Eric's house)


Lara, Hannah's friend

Freitag, 22. April 2011

from the book to be ( Here in the noW)

Eric before his haircut


Maria Tannemann, who was Eric's kindergarten teacher


Cathy, Eric's mother


Morton, Eric's father


Eric's littlest sister Theresa


Eric's sister Missy ( Melisa)


Eric's brother Max



Eric's grandmother Nora ( Morton's mother)



Eric's grandfather Ted (Morton's father)

Samstag, 15. Januar 2011

http://www.artists.de/alwynart.html

I just joined artists.de!!!!
Have a look here. Take time to brouse through the other art, there is a lot of realy beautiful things! Have fun!

Nun bin ich Mitglied bei artists.de ( hier anklicken)
Es lohnt sich Zeit zu nehmen und ein bißchen weiter zu stöbern. Es sind wirklich schöne Kunstwerke auf diese Site. Viel Spaß!

Donnerstag, 2. Dezember 2010

Buchtitelblatt - book cover

I was asked to design a book cover for Andreas Bunkahle's new book Materia Medica. He is, amongst other things a homeopath, astrologer and author. He described the picture to me and wanted Cepheus, Saturn and some Aquarian qualities in it. Here are first drafts. He is looking into formatting it. I will keep you posted when the book is done. For some reason I can't convince my programme to reproduce greens, so you will have to imagine these pictures very green and not grey!

Andreas Bunkahle schreibt gerade ein Buch -Materia Medica. Das Titelblatt hatte er genau beschrieben und er wollte, dass Cepheus, Saturn und etwas Wassermann-Energie in dem Bild sind. Hier sind meine erste Entwurfe. Er wird das Endresultat formatieren. Sobald das Buch erscheint, sage ich Bescheid. Leider mag mein Program hier kein Grün, also müßen Sie sich vorstellen, dass diese Bilder sehr grün sind und nicht graugrün.
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Mittwoch, 10. November 2010

The Macklutzkys

I am illustrating for the magazine Leipzig Zeitgeist now. Meet the Macklutzkys!

Jetzt illustriere ich auch für die Zeitschrift Leipziger Zeitgeist, eine Zeeitschrift auf Englisch unter teilweise auch andere Sprachen, für die nicht Deutschsprachigen in Leipzig. Here sind die Macklutzkys:





Donnerstag, 28. Oktober 2010

Some New Poems

On This Year's Natural Catastrophes ( © Deirdre Siobhan Goodman )

Is it Mother Earth's retaliation?
Spirit migration?
Or HAARP's weather manipulation?
Is it the seasons shifting?
The temperatures lifting?
Or Jove sifting
The wheat from the chaff?
Collecting the jewels and leaving the rougher half
to cope, - or, just for a laugh,
playing chess with our lives
seeing which one survives
which nose dives?
Are catastrophobic worries
projecting flurries?
Will it slow us down in our headless hurries?
Is it a cosmic conjuction
teaching us compunction
and how to function?
Or the End of Time?
Has it reason or rhyme?
A sublime
testing of all of our souls?
A switching of poles?
Or Trolls?
Or the Divine Wisdom teaching compassion,
and when the walls crash in...
Will I - at least then - share my ration?

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I am an empath ( © Deirdre Siobhan Goodman )
I can feal your joy, grief and wrath:
I am an empath.
I can sense your confusion and illusion,
Your knowing, growing, tears, fears,
Your wisdom beyond your years;
I can hear your true voice beneath the mask,
And when you ask
-If drugs have made me hazy
Or am I crazy-
Then I hear your wariness of the divine in you
That I can see shine in you.
I tell you I have Venus in Taurus
And bore us with talk of auras
I want to help to free you so you can be you
If only you saw you the way I see you!!!
Please, let me live MY way
And sometimes let me exit off the emotional highway.
What rivives me
Is to lean on an oak tree,
To let mud get on my feet and to let the rain soak me.
To let wind and ocean
Help me feel my OWN emotion.
I am learning to ask with grace
For a bit of time and space,
To follow my own path,
I am an empath.

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Human Kind ( © Deirdre Siobhan Goodman)

Please be kind!
To the hearts that long have languished and have pined,
Please be careful when you're chancing
To be hopping round and dancing,
That its not on toes your prancing,
Just be kind.

Please be kind!
For so many have long, long, now, been maligned.
If your mind you're frankly speaking
Be aware who's wounds you'r tweeking
If they're losing it and freaking,
Just be kind.

Please be kind!
If you're venting, check if someone is behind.
You can never know for certain
If your jokes are cause for hurtin',
Please respect the drawn up curtain
And be kind.

Please be kind!
If you do not understand them, never mind.
They are each fighting their battle,
Often feeling like they're chattle,
Tossed about in life's big rattle,
So be kind.

Please be kind!
If you try it out for size you just might find
You will never more be mindless
For the milk of human kindness
Helps to cure the heart of blindness,
Please be kind!

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Bundles in the cold ( © Deirdre Siobhan Goodman )

I went and walked out in the night
the world was blanketed in white
the corners of the rooves were round,
snow muted every jagged sound
The world lay still
I looked my fill
Too wonderstruck to speak.
Each car, no matter what the make,
looked like a round marshmallow cake,
All people, rich, poor, young or old
turned into bundles in the cold.
All things are evened out by snow
When cars and trains and planes don't go,
like snow, we're one
beneath the sun
-yet each of us unique.


Love from Deirdre

Samstag, 7. August 2010

Signs of Summer

I got to paint some signs and a mural for Murphys Ice Cream, in Dublin this summer. They have two new shops there. One in Wicklow Street and One in Temple Bar. There was loud, live music playing in the square at Temple Bar while I painted and I took time out in between to have an affogato...mmmmmmmmmmmmmm! a scoop of Murphys Ice cream with a shot of fresh espresso over it!

In diesem Sommer, konnte ich zu live-(Strassen)musik bei Murphys Ice Cream 2 Schilder und eine Wandgemälde malen. Sie haben zwei neue Läden in Dublin....in Temple Bar und in Wicklow Street. Zwischendurch habe ich Pause gemacht und affogato genossen: eine Kugel Murphys Eis mit ein Schuß Espresso drauf gegossen! Mmmmmmmmmm!