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The Sasse: Where love stories develop
between art and viewer
 
     
     
       
 
These pieces began with a simple recognition: life is shaped by our connections to other people. Every conversation, every shared moment, every encounter leaves its mark. Together, these threads weave the tapestry that makes us who we are. Art lives in this same space of connection, it emerges from our accumulated experiences and travels outward to touch others, adding threads we never intended, creating patterns we cannot see.
 
         
 

Creative Process & Practice

     
 

What the Hands Remember
Quiet Thoughts
The Discipline of Seeing
Go Fish
We Are Here
When Time Stands Still
Walls, Windows & Doors: a metaphor for creativity
Negotiating with Doubt
The Inner Voice
Duty over Dreams

 
Creative practice is a daily pilgrimage
showing up, again and again, to
meet the unknown and slowly
shape it into form.”

 
 

Philosophy & Purpose of Art

     
 

The Space Between
Where Love Stories Develop
Art's Contradictions
Plucking Thistles
What's the Point!
A Laboratory for Visual Thought

 
“Art is where philosophy takes on
skin and breath its purpose is
not to answer what life means,
but to let us feel meaning alive
in form, color, and movement.”
 
 

Artist Perspectives

     
 

A View from the Studio | Robin Jack Sarner
A View from the Studio | Ignacio Escobar
A View from the Studio | Maurice Quillian

 
Every studio holds a hidden
vantage Point the artist’s way
of showing us how
the world looks
from behind the brush

 
 

Wonder & Perception

     
 

Trust Your Eyes
Walking Toward Wonder
The Alchemy of Wonder
Finding Art in the Unexpected
Where Does Inspiration Come From?
The Viewer's Journey

 
“Wonder is the moment our
perception wakes up to
how miraculous the
ordinary really is.”
 
 

Art & the Sacred

     
 

What If? / Why Not? / How Come?

The Fingerprint
Choosing Light
The Nativity
Where Art Starts
Einstein's Miracle Philosophy & the Creative Spirit

 
“Art is how the soul learns to speak
each color a prayer,
each line a quiet path back
to the sacred within.”
 
 

Art & Science

     
 

Where Everything Connects
Your Brain on Art

 
“Art and science begin with
The same impulse:
to observe closely and
make sense  of what
we discover.”
 
 

Creative Principles

     
 

Our Stories
The Problem with Problems
Inspired Action
The Apple Seed
Simplicity takes wisdom
The Threads That Bind
Celebrating the Journey of Art & Play

 
“Creative principles are not rules to follow,
but values that shape how we see,
choose, and make.”
 
         
       
           
       
     
           
           
           
           
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