I have launched my new website!  It is a work in progress and probably will be for some time to come. 

triadasamaras.com

A work on paper I made for Nick will be in a show soon (May 19) called the Kentler International Drawing Gallery 100 Works on Paper Benefit
http://www.kentlergallery.org/
The title for the piece is the same as Nick's blog: The journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step....

It is a small work on paper, done with colored pencil, 11 x 14 inches.



Nick got his breathing tube out today!
http://nicksamaras.wordpress.com/the-accident/
and I made a Healing Facebook Page for him at
http://www.facebook.com/healingpagenicholassamaras

We can not hold onto time and time passes quickly! A cello teacher I love dearly who passed away a number of years ago said to my young son before she departed: "Time waits for no man, son."

Images from Syntagma Sqaure: #3

Here is an image from Syntagma Square in Athens, Greece that needs no translation.

Not Here

There's courage involved if you want

to become truth. There is a broken-

open place in a lover. Where are

those qualities of bravery and sharp

compassion in this group? What's the

use of old and frozen thought? I want

a howling hurt. This is not a treasury

where gold is stored; this is for copper.

We alchemists look for talent that

can heat up and change. Lukewarm

won't do. Halfhearted holding back,

well-enough getting by? Not here.

From Soul of Rumi

by Coleman Barks









Photo by Triada Samaras, June 2011

New video! "Life is not a bowl of cherries..."

Life is not a bowl
Of cherries; blossoms wilt
To soften the landings.

Triada Samaras 2010

Burning House 1/2010.mov

Excerpts of text created for Burning House video, 2009

In the Studio


In the studio, for me,
everything summons up
visualizing with my fingers.

There, recently
I was looking to the middle
of the table and there
lay tiny white paper
my favorite paper
innocent and pure
waiting for my fingers
to just touch it.

I love to let my fingers
go over the paper slowly
bend it in my hands
find words and poetry
with fingers, all their own,
which only I can hear.

I am alone with my paper
listening to the stories
deep within the pages
in my hands.

Feeling the sadness of the paper
the joy of the paper
the house that forms itself
out of the paper.

The heat of the paper
The flame of the paper
The death of the paper
and then, the birth of the ashes
all there, right in front me,
In the studio.


c. Triada Samaras 2010

"Brooklyn Utopias?" Show

The "Brooklyn Utopias?" Show! that I am participating in has been extended into late January, 2010, so it is not too late to visit the Brooklyn Historical Society and to see a great exhibition!


www.brooklynutopias.com
Happy Holidays!

T.

Burning House 1a 11/2009

Burning House 2 10/2009

New Website!

I just published my first little website of some of my recent artworks.

http://web.mac.com/triadasamarasart

My Mention in the Brooklyn Eagle!

I have a nice mention and short write-up in the Brooklyn Eagle regarding the drawing I donated in memory of Bob Guskind to Kentler International Drawing Space.

http://www.brooklyneagle.com/categories/category.php?category_id=12&id=27732

Fourth Ave.
(In Memory of Bob Guskind 1958-2009)
Charcoal on Paper
9" x 29"
Triada Samaras 2009

Donated to Kentler International Drawing Space: 100 Works on Paper Benefit 2009
See http://www.kentlergallery.org/pages/current.html