Boxed In

Boxed In  |  Anthony Satori

Boxed In  |  Anthony Satori

No society can truly thrive without the presence of a robust artistic element in its culture.  In the modern era, it is too easy to become jaded, myopic, even utilitarian in our view of the world around us.  We become immune to the enriching effects of subtlety, nuance, and beauty, rendering our psyches out of balance and causing a dangerous lack of vital nourishment to our spiritual health.  The artist’s role, at least in part, is to help us return to a place of awakened perception, to lift us out of purely linear modes of thinking and seeing, and to remind us again how it feels to experience the world with a sense of wonder.BlogImage-footd

Resonant Space

Italian Street at Night  |  Anthony Satori

“Resonant Space”  |  Anthony Satori

When I look at this image, I like to think of everyone who has lived, loved, worked, and passed the time here, on this very street, for centuries.  How many people have set foot upon these stones?  How many fingertips have brushed along these walls?  Who made a friend here, fell in love here, dreamed dreams here, lived the fullness of their life within this resonant space?  I like to quiet my mind and try to imagine them, to feel their presence.  I can almost hear the echoes of children laughing and playing, eager to extend the last moments of daylight before the sun goes down and they must go inside…

Art has the power to remind us that beyond all time and space, we are connected.

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Tree and Cloud

"Tree and Cloud" | Anthony Satori

“Tree and Cloud”  |  Anthony Satori

“It is the conviction that nothing mysterious can ever happen in our everyday life that has destroyed the joy of abstract thought.”  – Wassily Kandinsky

Kandinsky said this almost a century ago.  How much more true, today?  To our great good fortune, art has the extraordinary potential to prove this conviction entirely wrong, and to re-introduce wonder into our lives.BlogImage-footd

Glittering Plains

"The Glittering Plains of Odainsaker" | Anthony Satori

“The Glittering Plains of Odainsaker”  |  Anthony Satori

In ancient Nordic mythology, there is a place — a real location, somewhere in the world — where anyone who goes there becomes healthy and youthful, and remains that way forever.  It is called Odainsaker: “The Deathless Acre.”  It is said that when you find it, you will recognize it immediately, because the land glitters like gold.