Here are two of my favorite things combined, art and the beach. Discovered the work of Jim Deneven and thought I’d share. He does this freehand with a stick. There is something so beautiful about ephemeral art. It emphasizes the experience of the art process without concern for object. It is being in and of the moment, something important about art and self that is so easy for us to be distracted from or to simply just forget. In a way, the ephemeral speaks to us of the the importance of memory and mindfulness.

There are more images on the artist’s website.

It’s much colder here here than it was in Boston. Somehow though, the winter here is less depressing. As intimidating as it is, dealing with the elements and having the ocean right there is energizing and inspirational. I feel more real here, more connected…more human. The beach changes dramatically in the winter. It looks like some remote primordial landscape at low tide. Beautiful and abandoned. The photographs are of high tide in the morning just after it snowed. I love how the mood and the landscape shift from month to month, hour to hour.