Author: clfuu

Model ships, model trains, doll houses—there is something endearing about the real world made tiny, and placed under our complete control.

What do you wish would become small and manageable?

“The tree which moves some to tears of joy is in the eyes of others only a green thing that stands in the way. Some see nature all ridicule and deformity… and some scarce see nature at all. But to the eyes of the [person] of imagination, nature is imagination itself.”
― William Blake

How does nature fuel your imagination?

We know now that there is no Man in the Moon—nor any life there at all. But we still reach out in our imaginations—and our science—in search of signals that someone out there in the vastness of space will talk with us.

Who do you talk with only in your imagination?

“Imagination does not become great until human beings, given the courage and the strength, use it to create.”
― Maria Montessori

What does your imagination lead you to create?

The goal of painting is not to turn real life into something static. It is to create an interaction, a conversation, between the thing that was painted, the viewer and the imagination of the painter.

What painting sparks your imagination?