Just Looking Boutique in Laguna Beach

Just Looking Boutique   Have you heard?  Hot Orange and Passionate Orange are in Love! Whenever you put them together things really pop!  This week we are featuring several smaller leather necklaces in orange and purple, plus a cooler summer green with white, also black.  Reasonably priced bracelets and earrings are also available.  WHAT ARE YOU WAITING FOR ?   Leather, amethyst, quartz crystal and pearls Leather, coral and freshwater pearls Necklace $265 Leather, pearls, quartz crystal and silver. Leather, Ghana glass, pearls and agate. Necklace $265 Leather, pearls, crystal and silver. Necklace $285

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Ekphrasis: Sacred Stories of the Southwest

Ekphrasis - Sacred Stories of the Southwest

Obliq Art in Phoenix, AZ

The word, ekphrasis, is Greek, and means a literary description or commentary on a visual work of art. 

I had the pleasure of participating in a collaborative event last week at Obliq Art in Phoenix, Az. The evening was a combination of two art forms: visual arts and poetry.  The poets were paired with an artist and responded to  their art through poetry in the theme of 'Sacred Stories of the Southwest'.

"Las Rocas del Alma Sol"  (Rocks of Sun Soul)

by Phyllis Clark

Amethyst, agate, carnelian, cherry quartz, freshwater pearls, red tiger's eye, soma, crystal spikes, garnet slices and silver.


Madelyn Garner was the poet who wrote about my piece. Her poem as called "The Anthropology of Edges" Madelyn's work has been recognized with various awards in writing. Her current book is Collecting Life: Poets on Objects Known and Imagined, by  Madelyn Garner and Andrea L. Watson.

Ekphrasis: Sacred Stories of the Southwest- curated by Karen S. Cordova.


Obliq Art hosted the event. Obliq is a contemporary urban "pop up" gallery, located in downtown Phoenix at the Arizona Center. They are open for First Friday artist reception and Third Friday showings. Contemporary and traditional fine art, paintings, photography and mixed media.