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Is it a Barrel, or a Sculpture?
Is this a barrel, or is it a sculpture of light and shadow, texture and curves? And is it simply an attractive planter, or does it have a...
paulhawkwood
Aug 29, 20223 min read
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Your Inner Pepper
Have you ever looked inside your fruits and vegetables as you're chopping them? They're quite beautiful - the rings of a carrot, the...
paulhawkwood
Jun 13, 20222 min read
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Forest Stairs, Quiet Light
I find something captivating about stairs, especially ones that spiral or move in harmony with a building space or landscape. The stairs...
paulhawkwood
Apr 6, 20222 min read
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Light Leaks in Everywhere
Light leaks in everywhere – from eyelids, clouds, the edges of closed doors, and the moon in late afternoon. Blessings when you ask and...
paulhawkwood
Feb 12, 20221 min read
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Seeing Small Beauty
A few weeks ago we awoke to a light frost. When my wife and I stepped out on our second floor balcony to look around, I noticed that the...
paulhawkwood
Jan 13, 20221 min read
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Wonder and Gratitude - a Starry Night and the Sound of Onions Cooking.
Many mornings we awaken before the sun has begun to illuminate the eastern sky. We turn our lights off after making ourselves café lattes...
paulhawkwood
Jan 4, 20222 min read
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Fountain, Curves, Concrete, Water
Fountain Water is beyond my mind, flowing fluidly over the lip of the fountain and splashing into the pond beneath, over and over....
paulhawkwood
Dec 12, 20212 min read
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Golden Graffiti, Golden Words
Recently I went to see the Arizona Copper Museum in Clarkdale, a small mining town about an hour from Sedona, with my sister and...
paulhawkwood
Nov 24, 20212 min read
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Tree Worlds, Tree Words
Recently I spend some time in a friend's backyard, and as I wandered through her garden, I noticed a tree stump that looked like it had...
paulhawkwood
Nov 21, 20213 min read
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The Doorway
This is one of my earliest digital photographs, taken in December of 2011, during one of my walks in our neighborhood in Sedona. I was...
paulhawkwood
Nov 11, 20211 min read
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The Beautiful Sewer
I enjoy seeing beauty in things that my mind initially overlooks or judges negatively. I was struck by this manhole cover while I was...
paulhawkwood
Oct 14, 20211 min read
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The Numinous: Sacredness and Light
I love the word numinous as a word for describing that which we call holy or spiritually alive. One definition of numinous means, "to be...
paulhawkwood
Aug 9, 20212 min read
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The Play of Yin and Yang - Seeing the World in Black and White, Old and New.
Each day I take a walk on the street I live on, and it ends on the corner where these stones and grasses offer a dramatic juxtaposition...
paulhawkwood
Aug 2, 20212 min read
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An Impressionist Sunset
One thing I love about Sedona is the beauty of its sky - a beauty that manifests in so many ways that I find myself looking skyward much...
paulhawkwood
May 22, 20211 min read
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Is it Art if it's Done by a Computer?
What makes something art? Does it need to be done by a human? I was looking through my photographs the other day and found this...
paulhawkwood
Apr 7, 20211 min read
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Art and The Garage
Many, many years ago - ok, decades ago - I spent a summer making leather goods with a friend in Central City, Colorado. Most of it was...
paulhawkwood
Mar 16, 20211 min read
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Water and Light - Seville's fountain
This is the fountain in the Plaza de España in Seville, Spain, where my wife and I spent a few days in June of 2015. The color version...
paulhawkwood
Feb 28, 20212 min read
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The Monk's Door
This is a beautiful wooden door at the Briar Patch Inn, a few miles up Oak Creek from uptown Sedona, Arizona. It's a beautiful place to...
paulhawkwood
Feb 9, 20212 min read
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The Breakfast Bowl: Art or Awareness?
About four years ago, I pulled my iPhone out of my pocket and took (made? created? shot?) a photograph of my breakfast bowl. As I sat...
paulhawkwood
Feb 1, 20212 min read
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Eyes, Live Grasses, and Photography
It's winter. Why not refresh yourself by experiencing soft-focus grasses gently playing in subdued light! It's ok - your brain, heart,...
paulhawkwood
Jan 10, 20211 min read
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