Lead Creative Team
A Common Flame
A Common Flame
Lead Creative Team
What keeps your firelight burning?
What keeps your firelight burning?
Lead Creative Team
The Burns Family Healing Camp
The Burns Family Healing Camp
Dave Von Bieker
On Mental Health and Faith Healers
On Mental Health and Faith Healers
Art, Reflections
Dave Von Bieker
Beauty in a Time of Dryness

These are dry times. Summer slips away faster than you can catch it – a dime down the drain. The sky hangs damp and icy today. Across the globe, powerful little men toy with the world’s future like it’s a game of chicken. Hurricanes have ravaged large parts of our earth. Families will suffer the effects for years to come. Terrorists won’t let London sleep. 

This planet can get so ugly. So broken. So disordered. So many of our mirrors are shattered.

There is order in beauty. A divine order, I believe, but whatever your theology you can feel it. The affirmation of disparate parts falling into place. 

Jennifer Berkenbosch’s Cultivar matters because the world needs beauty today. We need to be reminded that there is goodness. There is a solid bed beneath this wild river. 

Beauty in a Time of Dryness

talkbackTuesday

#TalkBackTuesday: Creative Side Projects

You can follow these conversations easily with the #TalkbackTuesday hashtag. You can comment below, or post to your favourite social network with that hashtag - which will really help us keep the conversation rolling. That's my goal on Tuesdays - to get people talking about art, wherever they may be online.

Today's question: what is your creative side project? 

I visited a Marcel Duchamp exhibition in Paris. But it was of his paintings (he's known as an experimental/installation artist and scultpor mostly). I took in the Dali Museum, which showcases his sculptures (he's mostly known as a surrealist painter).

So many of us have side pursuits. I'm going to share one of mine, and I'm curious to hear about yours. 

Bonus points for pictures or links!

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You have something to say–why not say it here? Email your blog post idea to dave@bleedingheartart.space and let's chat.

#TalkBackTuesday: The Art of War

This week, we're changing up 'ArtsTalkTuesday'. Pertly because the phrase could also be interpreted as 'ArtStalkTuesday', which is creepy, but mostly because of what my intention with this has been along - to hear from you. But you are not always here, on this blog. You are everywhere. On social media, mostly. Twitter and Facebook and Pinstagram and ...

So we're bringing the conversation there. And maybe it will move there entirely. Let me know if that would be a loss to you. Last week there was some great conversation on where we create. Mostly, it happened on Facebook. 

You can follow these conversations easily with the #TalkbackTuesday hashtag. You can comment below, or post to your favourite social network with that hashtag - which will really help us keep the conversation rolling. That's my goal on Tuesdays - to get people talking about art, wherever they may be online.

Today's Question: What war-themed art (visual, film, music, literature, etc.) has Impacted you the most?

It is Remembrance Day - a day we pause to reflect upon, and honour, those who have fought for our freedom in Canada. If you're like me, you've never been anywhere near combat, and it is only through the power of art - storytelling, film, painting, photography, poetry - that you have experienced war. 

What piece, or pieces, have left the greatest impact, moved you the most or taught you the most, about war?

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You have something to say–why not say it here? Email your blog post idea to dave@bleedingheartart.space and let's chat.