Creating a Compassionate Life
I have always created.
I consider all art--Life itself--to be poetry--
a means toward human empathy.
I am poet.
I have worked as an active artist all my adult life--
Have been making photos since darkroom days in
the 1970s, currently and then explore videography.
Now I also paint and write poetry.
From 1980 through 2000,
I worked as an arts advocate, writing
for the Bloomington Voice and Ryder magazines.
In early 1990s, I was manager of Second Story Nightclub.
In 2018, I took my first watercolor class; it was a lesson in Joy.
Beginning March 2020, when covid locked us all down,
I chose to ride the love train--to spread Joy not fear:
Art is for me a means toward peace;
so, I started sharing daily Being Now meditations--
mostly nature studies in watercolor.
--Katherine Deneise Self
Bloomington, Indiana
February 2023
I have always created.
I consider all art--Life itself--to be poetry--
a means toward human empathy.
I am poet.
I have worked as an active artist all my adult life--
Have been making photos since darkroom days in
the 1970s, currently and then explore videography.
Now I also paint and write poetry.
From 1980 through 2000,
I worked as an arts advocate, writing
for the Bloomington Voice and Ryder magazines.
In early 1990s, I was manager of Second Story Nightclub.
In 2018, I took my first watercolor class; it was a lesson in Joy.
Beginning March 2020, when covid locked us all down,
I chose to ride the love train--to spread Joy not fear:
Art is for me a means toward peace;
so, I started sharing daily Being Now meditations--
mostly nature studies in watercolor.
--Katherine Deneise Self
Bloomington, Indiana
February 2023
From 2020 through present day,
I have been chronicling daily Joy through
making Zen paintings and poetry,
sharing these with close friends and family.
The Being Now Meditation images are
available as original art, notecards,
custom calendars, and prints.
Donations to the Being Now Meditations project
may be made using PayPal or Venmo
( BeingNowMeditations@gmail.com )
( Venmo username: @KDSelf-1 )
Please feel free to contact K.D. Self via email: BeingNowMeditations@gmail.com
I have been chronicling daily Joy through
making Zen paintings and poetry,
sharing these with close friends and family.
The Being Now Meditation images are
available as original art, notecards,
custom calendars, and prints.
Donations to the Being Now Meditations project
may be made using PayPal or Venmo
( BeingNowMeditations@gmail.com )
( Venmo username: @KDSelf-1 )
Please feel free to contact K.D. Self via email: BeingNowMeditations@gmail.com
Photos this page: Sand, Sea, Sky #1 (Gulfport, Mississippi, 2015);
At Sea (Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, 2019); In My Garden (Bloomington, Indiana, 2021.)
All photos and videos on this website copyright K.D. Self, 2020.
