Love for one’s work

My feverish and unsatisfactory attempts were themselves a token of love, a love which brought me no pleasure but was nonetheless profound. - Marcel Proust In Swann's Way, Proust's narrator describes his relationship with the art of writing in the above quote. At a recent afternoon tea, (I heart afternoon tea), conversation turned towards the…

“Persephone”

In Greek mythology, Hades, lord of the underworld, fell in love with Persephone, goddess of springtime, while she was picking flowers in a field. The Fates have decreed that anyone consuming the fruits of the underworld must spend eternity there. Persephone was persuaded into eating some pomegranate seeds (four or six?) and thus was forced…

Journal Santa Fe, September 2012

"Respite From Modern Life" by Kate McGraw Albuquerque Journal / Journal Santa Fe September 21, 2012 pp. S6, S4 It is no coincidence that Fatima Ronquillo's paintings remind the viewer of Old Masters from the classical European style of painting. She learned to make art by copying the paintings and drawings in museums. "I grew…

“The Runaways”

This is the last work to be included for the "Love and Loss" show. The reception is this Friday 5-7pm at Meyer East. I hope to see you there if you are in Santa Fe. Preview the works here. "The Runaways" is a special work for me. I find myself repeatedly attracted to its ambiguity…

Bright Star

Bright star, would I were stedfast as thou art-- Not in lone splendour hung aloft the night And watching, with eternal lids apart, Like nature's patient, sleepless Eremite, The moving waters at their priestlike task Of pure ablution round earth's human shores, Or gazing on the new soft-fallen mask Of snow upon the mountains and…