SIQUEIROS LIVES ON!: Oil Painting up For 2011 Benefit Auction Los Angel...

SIQUEIROS LIVES ON!: Oil Painting up For 2011 Benefit Auction Los Angel...: "Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery Anna E. Siqueiros | 2011 LAMAG Auction Anna E. Siqueiros Vino Tinto 2011 Oil on Canvas 20' x 16' x 1..."

Oil Painting up For 2011 Benefit Auction Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery at Barndall

Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery

Anna E. Siqueiros | 2011 LAMAG Auction 

Anna E. Siqueiros
Vino Tinto
2011
Oil on Canvas
20" x 16" x 1 1/2"
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Value: $1000
Starting bids: $300

Graysons 7th Brain Surgery Update From His mom Michelle Arroyo

Sorry for not sending out an email update about the surgery for so long. It turns out I can access Facebook at the hospital very easily but not email.   Over five hours in the OR, but he was talking and moving pretty quickly in the recovery room.The surgery was successful in removing most of the scar tissue that had completely sealed his fourth ventricle shut, but they could not put the shunt in the ventricle as we had hoped. His fourth ventricle had  a lot of tumor in it so it would more than likely just clog the shunt (drain) if they put it in. They did make a tube out of a dissolvable gel material in hopes that it would keep an open pathway for the ventricle to drain. It may or may not work, or may only work for a period of time. The pathologist confirmed that the tissue sample was actual tumor but we will not have final results likely for ten days, and this is no surprise because we know that Gray's tumor is like a coating throughout his brain and spine.    The first few days were very worrisome because Gray was not bouncing back like he has after his previous surgeries. He would not eat or drink, try and get up or move around, and his visual processing seemed to be very off. He had no interest in movies or cartoons, or any of the usual stuff that he enjoys even if only for a few minutes. His sodium levels seemed to remain low despite supplementation and then he started with a fever. That required many tests, Chest X-ray, Head CT, and a sampling of Cerebral Spinal Fluid to rule out bacterial growth. He had a couple of days of antibiotics and seemed to have kicked whatever infection may have been brewing.   The first week we were on the Surgical floor which had a variety of surgical recovery patients and was very noisy and chaotic. Gray does not do well with noise under good circumstances so this was very difficult for all of us to deal with, and sharing a room with two babies for the first three days did not start things out right. The emotional trauma seems to be the toughest for him to deal with at this time. He has constant nightmares when trying to sleep and so he seems pretty afraid to go to sleep at night and his emotions are very volatile. You just never know how the brain will respond in these types of surgeries, swelling and movement play a big part of mood, coordination and function. It will probably take many weeks or even months to know the effectiveness of reducing pain and figure out all the actual changes in him, both good and bad.    Two days ago we transferred to the In Patient Rehab Unit, in hopes of getting him several hours a day of therapy to help get him back on his feet. His fine motor skills are still pretty good but his legs are still very wobbly and vision seem to be off. It is a challenge to try and walk, even with me doing all the work, because his legs are all over the place. His head and neck are very stiff which does not help and he is very afraid of hurting himself. Gray has a long road to recovery ahead of him, but I am sure he will be back in action "Gray Style" as usual.    Thanks to all who made a special trip to Children's Hospital LA to donate blood on Grayson's behalf. He was borderline on requiring a transfusion, but his blood counts recuperated quickly enough so all the donations would be successful in helping another child.   As always, I saved the best for last. We are so fortunate to have such a great support system. I apologize to all the people who have offered to come by and visit, bring food, etc. that I have not had time to respond to. My besties, Amy and Diane, came into town before the surgery and did not go home until they had to return to their own kids and work. My family has taken turns round the clock to bring us anything we may need and allow me to meet with the teams of Doctors, and take an occasional shower. This has been an exhausting, emotionally and physically, hospital stay. Not just here, but for our support team that stayed at the house to make the rounds. The hospital security is tight here so we can only have two people bedside at a time, which is usually me and one visitor.   And many thanks to Annie Banannie, Gray's famous Clown Mentor, who has kept us all laughing. Even when people were passing out while donating blood on Grayson's behalf.... :o)...always an adventure of some sort.   Grayson loves to get mail, so we are welcoming cards and letters.   xoxo Michelle and Gray   Grayson Arroyo-Smiley 3325 Canton Way Studio City, CA 91604

SIQUEIROS LIVES ON!: A Thousand Prayers For Grayson

SIQUEIROS LIVES ON!: A Thousand Prayers For Grayson: "“A Thousand Prayers For Grayson” I am only that of a boy striving to become a man.Can you take my hand? Can you blow in to the wind a ..."

A Thousand Prayers For Grayson

“A Thousand Prayers For Grayson”

I am only that of a boy striving to become a man.

Can you take my hand?

Can you blow in to the wind a thousand prayers across this land?

It is to rest upon me a surgery of healing.

With a ray of sunshine, and the gentle autumn rain.

So I will no longer have to be in pain.

There is so much I look forward to, Too many memories to gain.

Can you blow in to the wind a thousand prayers across this land?

And Whisper My Name:

For This Friday March 18th 2011

7:30 -- ?

Pacific standard time

Is

Grayson Brain Surgery

Children’s Hospital Los Angeles

Please do not hesitate to forward this to go around the world as many times as possible!

Miracles do Happen!

Thank You,

Annie Banannie the Clown

 

SIQUEIROS LIVES ON!: The Rise of America/ Made In America

SIQUEIROS LIVES ON!: The Rise of America/ Made In America: "The Rise of America / Made in America series #2 by a.Siqueiros 3/14/2011 The Painting that almost got away that was strapped to my car an..."

The Rise of America/ Made In America #2

The Rise of America / Made in America
series #2 by a.Siqueiros 3/14/2011

The Painting that almost got away that was strapped to my car and almost flew off! I have a hundred portraits to do before I can show it to the public. I will keep posting the progress of the painting as it will start to take form.

Don't Be Average

Monday March 14, 2011

Goals are good.  But don’t get lost in them. Your average person spends their lives chasing something they never attain, at the expense of everything else. 

Don’t be average. 

Today, put your trust in a force higher than your logic.  You may not know exactly where it wants to take you, but you can be certain that if you trust, it will be the right place.

SIQUEIROS LIVES ON!: Fighting with Contemplation

SIQUEIROS LIVES ON!: Fighting with Contemplation: "Contemplation by a. siqueiros 3/9/2011 Contemplating always in thought of current & passed events we spilt right down the middle..."

Fighting with Contemplation

Contemplation by a. siqueiros 3/9/2011 

Contemplating always in thought of current & passed events we spilt right down the middle. The events that have taken place in my life may be something you too can relate to. That too familiar feeling of sadness. I realized that my inner knowing had told me to say something, and I did not pay attention. I thought, with regret, back to other times when I had heard that voice and ignored it. The simplest yet most elusive lesson in life is learning to listen to that guiding voice. I've learned to respond to it more and more, yet the times still come when I admit that I have just missed some extraordinary experience because I failed to catch the message fast enough. And when that happens, something irrevocably lost. It is vital at such moments to learn how to forgive oneself. Perhaps the awakened state means being ever ready to respond. Something that no one can be all the time. But we can approach it! And we can learn to listen more and more reliably. Mastery means responsibility, ability to respond in real time to the need of the moment. Intuitive or inspired living mean not just passively hearing the voice, but acting on it. Learn to respond to your muse.

A Hatched Temptation

A Hatched Temptation
Painting by a.Siqueiros 3/3/2011

The necessary equation of patience with faith arises because we cannot drop out of the world to undergo the growth and do the work needed "weather for hours or for  years" unless we trust that "Spirit stands still long enough." In our rapidly changing world there is no objective basis for this trust, other than the knowledge that other people have done it and come through. We simply have to have it, crazy as it may seem at times: faith in the rightness of our aim, in the ultimate fattiness of the obstacles, test, and lessons that present themselves along the way, in the Integrity and Mystery of our own evolution. And like the egg that is cracked under pressure the inner temptation that persists in all of us to evolve to higher consciousness of obtaining a sound mind.

New Painting " The Rise of America"

The Rise of America 1&2
by a.Siqueiros March 1 2011

Last night I found my self eager to get to this painting that has been on my mind since 6 months ago. Envisioning the concept with in my head day in and day out. I kept on working on it pulling it out from time to time. But last night in having the ability to work large on a 5 foot by 5 foot canvas got my blood stirring. So I took a nap had the weirdest dream all surrounded around the painting and jump out of bed ran down to the garage and pulled it out. Placed strapped it on top of my car, Loaded all my painting supplies and headed down the road only to find that I did not strap it good enough. When I look up the canvas was just about to fly off. Immediately I pulled over strapped it good and tight and continued driving. I had to carry this thing to West La College load it in to an elevator to the third floor and then carry it again to a class room on the other side of a building. Dropped it off and all the way back to the car to load my supplies.  I finally got going on painting and all the figures started to shape with out much effort. 

The reason I am telling you this story: Well I want to let everyone who thinks an artist dose not work to do their work is crazy. You see we work all the time even when we are not moving. A concept gets in our head and we just can not let it go! We are like pit bulls who lock their jaws in to it, and their is just no giving up or running back. You wonder why art is so expensive well it is expensive because it is at our expense that we work endlessly in making good works. It takes time, enormous amount of energy and thinking how we are going to accomplish it to do it, maintain it, store it, and finally wait for the creator to let us know when we finish it. So the next time you look at paintings or any kind of art form think about what the artist did on the process just to get where you can view it in a gallery, museum, or anywhere so you could experience it. Give some consideration to the artist that just for that brief moment of taking you some where else in time did it to raise your consciousness!

SIQUEIROS LIVES ON!: An Artist Fear

SIQUEIROS LIVES ON!: An Artist Fear: "An Artist Fear Photo by a. Siqueiros 2/28/11 Having Fear as an artist can be quite over whelming to say the lest. We are always in fear f..."

An Artist Fear

An Artist Fear Photo by a. Siqueiros 2/28/11

Having Fear as an artist can be quite over whelming to say the lest.
We are always in fear from the out side elements of interactions of the unknown.
The only time we are with out fear is when we are creating, we are constantly on the edge of unknowing.
Fear of not being able to meet bills and maintaining where we create or where the next bit of money will come from to keeping us going to do our work. This also is plays with the fact of rejection of our works of not being able to sell our works  of creations or constant criticism. We look for approval first my our en ate eagerness from the creator with in our selves, all the rest will follow. But Artist do carry an ability of manifestation the ability to create their outer world and turn fear in to focus to allow the universe to supply us with what ever we really need and if we really put our minds to it eventually it dose come to fruition. Most times it seems like it is unlikely to happen but the endless amount of time we give it pondering and focused on it we can find that somehow, somewhere and effortlessly it pops right out of the blue. "A Fine Line of Wanting and Having"
So try not to be so depressed over the issues at hand as it is as everything else a temporary situation, it is we that drive the ability to over come the obstacles with in our lives that make our successes if we put our minds to it!

Break Through Abstraction

Abstract Mood by a.Siqueiros 2/26/2011


The breakthrough, the moment of return, is the samadhi of reorganized innocence. With his or her very life at stake every time they pick up their tools, the artist can do their real work only by recovering their original mind-of-play, which has nothing to gain and nothing to lose!
Remember it is the process of doing something that feeds our daily accomplishments as artist!

A Tree Of Strength

A Tree of Strength by a. Siqueiros 2/24/2011

The word desire comes from de-sidere, "away from your star". It means elongation from the source, and concomitant, powerful magnetic pull to get back to the source. In the Sufi view, the beloved is the friend we love, while the Beloved, a vibratory, harmonized resonance between absence from and nearness to the two and being one. Take for example the tree the tree can not be excepted as a tree that stands alone for a tree is rooted by the seed and nurtured by nature that give it the strength to stand strong. We too as Artist have to have those around us that help us in nurturing us to be strong and with stand the elements that life may throw our way. We must give to those who help us credit and thank them for what may even be effortless for them but extremely helpful to us. So Today I want to thank all the amazing people of friends and relatives who have taken the time to be supportive and helping me in making me into a Tree of Strength. Thank You so much. 

Best Friends Are Diamonds In The Midst

Best Friends by a.Siqueiros 2/23/11

If I Were...

by Lucky

If I were a memory I’d hold you there forever Reminding you of the good times we shared together If I were a smile on your face I would stay Never to let sadness chase me too far away If I were a teardrop I’d roll gently down from your eyes Not to burn much but to mend your sweet cries If I were a hand I’d want you to hold me in your own Carry me through life .. even when I’m grown If I were feet I would stay inline with you So I could be with you in all that you do If I were a shadow I would always follow We’d face things together in all the tomorrows If I were pain I’d stay far away from the start To make sure you never felt me or I never broke your heart If I were a song I’d be a sweet sound to your ears To keep up your hopes and carry you through the years If I were strength I’d give you my all I’d hold you high and never let your fall If I were your heart I’d be steady and true I’d be there in every beat; staying strong for you If I were the sun I’d shine down upon your face Illuminate your smile and radiate through your grace If I were a star I’d sparkle like your eyes I would look upon your life and never stop my shine I don’t know how good at those things I could be I’m not any of them but this I want you to see If I were a friend I couldn’t let you down I’d never let you fall or walk away from me with a frown If I were a friend I would hold your hand I would be with you always, I hope you understand If I were a friend I would give you my all And though it’s not much, I’ll be there when you call If I were a friend I’d be in every memory too When you laughed, when you cried, I’d be with you I CAN be these things, it’s not impossible to be a friend I CAN be your best and I’ll be here till the end

If I Were...

by Lucky

If I were a memory I’d hold you there forever
Reminding you of the good times we shared together

If I were a smile on your face I would stay
Never to let sadness chase me too far away

If I were a teardrop I’d roll gently down from your eyes
Not to burn much but to mend your sweet cries

If I were a hand I’d want you to hold me in your own
Carry me through life .. even when I’m grown

If I were feet I would stay inline with you
So I could be with you in all that you do

If I were a shadow I would always follow
We’d face things together in all the tomorrows

If I were pain I’d stay far away from the start
To make sure you never felt me or I never broke your heart

If I were a song I’d be a sweet sound to your ears
To keep up your hopes and carry you through the years

If I were strength I’d give you my all
I’d hold you high and never let your fall

If I were your heart I’d be steady and true
I’d be there in every beat; staying strong for you

If I were the sun I’d shine down upon your face
Illuminate your smile and radiate through your grace

If I were a star I’d sparkle like your eyes
I would look upon your life and never stop my shine

I don’t know how good at those things I could be
I’m not any of them but this I want you to see

If I were a friend I couldn’t let you down
I’d never let you fall or walk away from me with a frown

If I were a friend I would hold your hand
I would be with you always, I hope you understand

If I were a friend I would give you my all
And though it’s not much, I’ll be there when you call

If I were a friend I’d be in every memory too
When you laughed, when you cried, I’d be with you

I CAN be these things, it’s not impossible to be a friend
I CAN be your best and I’ll be here till the end

Contemplating about then and Now!

Contemplation by a.Siqueiros 2/21/11


Artist used to be able to to talk convincingly about creating something for posterity, about making things that would live on and even grow for hundreds of years past the death of their makers. Duration has traditionally been one of the great measures of quality.
But right now the world's future seems a bit doubtful. With vast amounts of weaponry all around us; with air, water, soil, and cities becoming more toxic every year; with the whole of Earth's life-support systems at risk, we don't have a clear guarantee that there will be much posterity. For years may of us have wondered and talked about what we can do to see that a world and a civilization still exist, to see that there's someone to make art for and with; and we have participated, each in our own way, in innumerable projects aimed at helping to heal the situation as each of us saw it.

Happiness is Being One With Nature

The Happiest I Have Been  Photo by Richard Bilow
I really miss doing this out in Nature by the Rivers Edge Fishing
I even wrote a Song of it! In which I will be recording it soon!

Time Waits For No One!

Time Waits for No One A.Siqueiros 2/17/11

The Clock of Life is Wound but once.

 And no man has the power to turn back the hands of the clock 

Late or early hour. 

For Now is the time! To Live, Love and toil with this will

For the hands of the clock may be Still!

Create your Life with Joy and inspiration by those who except you just the way you are!

Black Swan

The force of the desire to swallow and rule over everything is innate to our existence.  But when we overcome ourselves, this force rises and tears all the blockages, and nothing can prevent us from complete fulfillment.

Take charge of your desires today.

Black Swan by A. Siqueiros 2/17/2011