Remembering a Wonderful Life

John Alan Ahola

Today the world lost a truly amazing man.

The Space Between Us - Art House Gallery Project

Crown of Thorns

This is what I sent to Art House Gallery's The Space Between Us project. It is a 4 x 6 inch piece (like everyone's). It will be part of the exhibition in Brooklyn, New York on March 19th, 2010.

I had many ideas for this project, but decided to go with my latest investigations in blind contour drawing and faith.

Often the "Space Between Us" is Us. It is of our own creation.

George Clinton of Parliament/Funkadelic said it best, "Free your mind and your ass will follow. The Kingdom of Heaven is within."

Blind Contour & Sutra

"Permanent, inexhaustible; exhaustible, impermanent. The One Spirit resides within all the myriad things. The One has been neither produced nor made, and permanently resides without end. Among the things existing under heaven, there are those that can be seen and those that cannot be seen. For example, the soul cannot be seen by human beings. Our desire to see the soul indicates a spiritual consciousness in human beings."

-From The Lost Sutras of Jesus:

Unlocking the Ancient Wisdom of the Xian Monks

The Landslide

This piece is called Landslide. It is a mixed media disaster that was the product of many of my recent frustrations. I really don't know if it is any good at all. I don't really feel like judging it. It looks like a disaster because that is what it is and that is what it was born from. With that said, I will say that it does carry some sort of abstract hope. Maybe that hope is framed in the absent mountaintop. Or maybe that hope in the mountaintop had to slide down to where we stand in the valley below.

Here is to finding the top of the mountain(even when it buries us in a massive landslide). After all, that may be the closest we have been to the top of the mountain.

Here is to finding hope in all your disasters!

More Joy for 2010!

"The trees in the woods will shout for joy."

PSALMS 96.12

Best Wishes for 2010!

FedEx sucks...

Usually I don't use this forum for complaining, but I would like to share with anyone and everyone that I will be boycotting FedEx. Yep, they suck. Big time. I could go on and on about what a horrible company they are, but instead I will ask that you just take my word for it.

P.S. I have nothing against the nice delivery man though.

P.P.S. Stay away from Kinko's too.

December Craziness = one post

From eating oranges, to orange sunsets, to those orange bulbs in the multi-colored strand of Christmas Lights, December has been a great month.

Merry Christmas (or happy preferred holiday) and Peace my Friends.