#inksanity

"Edit your life frequently and ruthlessly. It's your masterpiece, after all." Nathan W. Morris #helenbirdart #inksanity 2016

simple swirls & dreams of distant places.... 'we are all star seed' #helenbirdart #inksanity from 2011

'the seeds of freedom are dreams' #helenbirdart #inksanity 2016

'deluge' "The bees are dropping like flies, and the birds are down with the flu... The earth trembles beneath our feet, and our skies are no longer blue..." Helen Bird 2016 #inksanity #helenbirdart

more meteorologically influenced #helenbirdart #inksanity collection 2016 'tsunami warning'

"Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that." Martin Luther King, Jr. #helenbirdart #inksanity 2012

crikey...this one's busy! more #inksanity #helenbirdart 2016 "Man is an artifact designed for space travel. He is not designed to remain in his present biologic state any more than a tadpole is designed

"If I lose the light of the sun, I will write by candlelight, moonlight, no light, If I lose paper and ink, I will write in blood on forgotten walls. I will write always. I will capture nights all

“Why travel to the Moon or Mars if we only continue our wars there with Russia or China or Africa? Why build rockets at all? For fun? For adventure? Or is this the same process that sends the salmons back

“Heaven knows we need never be ashamed of our tears, for they are rain upon the blinding dust of earth, overlying our hard hearts. I was better after I had cried, than before--more sorry, more aware of

“Time itself is neutral; it can be used either destructively or constructively. More and more I feel that the people of ill will have used time much more effectively than have the people of good will.

“Art is the only answer to chaos and the void.” ― Dean Koontz, Velocity #helenbirdart #inksanity 2016

#helenbirdart #inksanity 2017 collection "When the Blue Star Kachina makes its appearance in the heavens, the Fifth World will emerge". Hopi Blue Star Prophecy

“Then from those profound slumbers we awake in a dawn, not knowing who we are, being nobody, newly born, ready for anything, the brain emptied of that past which was life until then. And perhaps it is

"Love is space and time measured by the heart." Marcel Proust #helenbirdart #inksanity 2017 collection

"Have you had any terrible successes lately?" Jungian philosophy blended with a sense of humor... #helenbirdart #inksanity 2016-17 collection

"(Follow me, don't follow me) I've got my spine, I've got my orange crush (Collar me, don't collar me) I've got my spine, I've got my orange crush (We are agents of the free) I've had my fun and now

"On with the dance! let joy be unconfined; No sleep till morn, when Youth and Pleasure meet To chase the glowing hours with flying feet." ~George Gordon, Lord Byron, Childe Harold's Pilgrimage

#helenbirdart #inksanity 2012-13 follow me on twitter @Birdhelen "The thought of a limit to perceptual space and time staggers the mind." Muhammad Iqbal

“The true measure of a man is not his intelligence or how high he rises in this freak establishment. No, the true measure of a man is this: how quickly can he respond to the needs of others and how much