Randy Elrod's Blog, page 9

Montserrat Monastery Videos

Montserrat Sunrise

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My 457-Year-Old Room at Hostal Abat Cisneros-Montserrat Monastery

Montserrat Museum

Here are my favorites. Click image to enlarge. The artist card follows the art piece.

VideoMapping the Montserrat Basilica

I captured amazing video of the experience.

Hiking Paths

My Most Controversial Art Yet. Why?

I grew up smothered by religion. My father and both grandfathers were preachers. Sexual pleasure never came up in family conversations or sermons. To this day. And I’m 66 years old.  Never will I forget, at around age eleven or twelve, waking up with wet white stuff covering my sheet. I had been dreaming about...

What’s Making Me Happy

Many of us are anxious during election seasons, particularly this one when so much is on the line for my birth country. When I’m feeling freaked out and depressed, I turn to things that make me happy, i.e., soothing music—something I put on while I’m cooking comfort food. Here are a few things that make...

My Latest Watercolor

(Click painting to enlarge) Fragmentation Original Watercolor on Handmade Paper 44 x 50 cm I’d like very much to have painted a cohesive picture with a soothing palette today. I would like to be as good as nature, which, with time, produces flowers and grass to cover destruction. But we are a world of fragmented...

Let’s Pretend We’re Dancing in the Streets Of Barcelona

They are achingly beautiful, these romantic cities—Barcelona, Paris, Rome. The contours of Europe are far more mysterious and deeply layered than those of America, much like the “promised land” I had always been told about but knew deep in my heart did not exist. It was like I had died and gone to heaven, and...