Tracy Dunbar Fine Arts

Spoiler Alert: Am a total Star Wars Fan . . . this last set of films directed by J.J. Abrams are my favorites. The actors are great, all perfect for their parts, really appreciate that the main hero is female! Loved the final film, thought it was awesome, especially in 3d, BUT the ending was absolutely heartbreaking! I can not handle anymore romantic trragedy for the rest of my days, wether it be in real life or in film!  The Star Wars franchise needs to give this last movie a redo and give us all our happy ending.  Ben and Rey need a life together. I get it.  Both these kids are masters. They are one, so Ben is always a part of Rey.  Ben made the ultimate act of Love thru self sacrifice was beautiful and all BUT STILL, it pretty much adds to the bitterness that I experience in my own unfulfilled romantic life, not to make it all about me or anything lol.  Also, where was Yoda this time?  Finally, at the end when Rey introduced her self as Rey Skywalker, instead of just seeing Leah and Luke, it would of been nice to see the entire Jedi crew there in spirit!

We have made some progress with our owl friends who have been hanging out at our place. They are now not afraid and let us come close and hang out. Charlie has been creating a super sweet space for them. We leave water out so they can take baths and cool off. Yesterday we had 4 owls hanging out! We hope to be creating a pygmy owl sanctuary. Love these spirit souls in Owl bodies! Words can hardly describe how super cute they are! 

The Game of Thrones phenomenon is interesting, and I get it, not everyone GOT into it. For all of us kids who were sci-fi/fantasy nerds, grew up going to Ren Fares, or who are huge Tolkien fans, Game of Thrones was an obvious choice to mindlessly give up time to. George R. R. Martin, also a huge Tolkien fan, did a worthy job of constructing complex characters that often had Tolkien-esque elemental superpowers, that after 7 seasons many viewers got attached to. Jon Snow was the character that I personally bonded to, the humble, handsome hero, in the final show his actions actually sent me into a deep depression for a couple of days ! In the scene where he kisses his Queen, his love, his blood, in the gloomy desicrated backdrop featuring the iron throne, then at the same time stabs her, his actions triggered my own romantic tragedy that played out when my heart was not yet completely broken and projected my own otherworldly ideals onto another. Jon Snow's character is a reminder that what the heart wants and what ones actual fate is, are often two separate timelines. To carry in your heart love lost until death, the burden of the denial of ideals, as one lives out the complexities of their actual karmic fate is what Jon Snow represents. Real life can be heavey. Also, Bran as King, did not see that coming, but in the end, I am satisfied with him as King. He is the best choice. Yes! He is a weirdo and not understood completely, but the most enlightened ones usually elicit such reactions.

Went to my first printmaking class today in over 2 decades, at Pima Community College, why I've waited SO long to further my work in an official class setting, do not know BUT SO excited, feels so good to be around fellow art nerds and around presses again ! In class, had a tinge of sadness and a tear in my eye tho, for recently found out that my ALL time favorite professor Larry Scholder, who taught me and so many others printmaking at SMU passed away in 2018. Of course my new teacher at Pima knows who Larry Schoulder is, mentioned his name. Larry IS the best, a dedicated Art Professor and maker, super humble and when we discussed how he was an Art Professor . . . he told me, "Ha ha I fooled them again." LOL cuz he knew he had an awesome life with that career choice and with the work he made ! Every time I run a press Larry . . . will think of you and all that you gave to your students !

https://artistprintmakerresearchcollection.org/larry-scholder/?fbclid=IwAR0G3s93NIJ0qeDaXVIY6nd4VqBBrEqobo6x-Ceom1_RQtttj_ik8YUJ3Ow

7 years ago, I entered into an illustration project that incorporated Reiki with fairies, with a super classy lady, Ms. Heyde Class. We met in a reiki master's training class and quickly discovered how many similar traits we have, the most glaring, our mutual love for the elemental kingdom. Have learned SO much about art, energy, and myself through the process of illustrating this deck and working with Heyde who has done all the writing for the deck. A prototype for the 'The Fairy Inspiration Cards' is now complete, so we are getting closer to being published in the metaphysical capital of the World, Sedona, Arizona, so exciting !  If your interested in purchasing some individual cards with inspiring written messages, go here:http://www.acelestialsolution.com/fairy-reiki-deck/ .

Recenty embarked on a 3 day journey to Sedona, Arizona to attend a conference:  "2018 The Great Awakening:  Messages from Our Galactic Family" 

The starseeds, light workers, and frequency holders are ready now for the veils to fully lift on the mass culture so they can see more clearly the truly horrific poltical corrupution, mass media manipulation, and malpractice against children in America and across the globe.  Once the masses see more into the depths of the situation we are all collectively in, then and only then can we heal and change the system more rapidly.

Speakers from the conference whose messages I found the most compelling and well put together, all with a professional background who then flipped and starting questioning reality . . . thus sparking a complete awakening and integration of a new spirituality into their lives are:

Tom Dongo

Clifford Mahooty "Grandfather"

Allison Coe

Dr. Lynn Kitei MD

Michael Horn

The real treat for me was the sharing form Clifford Mahooty, a 75 year old Zuni Pueblo Indian elder, member of the tribal orders of the Kachina Priest hood, Galaxy medicine society, Sun Clan, and wisdom keeper of the Zuni history and spiritual practices.  Clifford, who grew up on the reservation, became a civil/environmental engineer, then came back full swing later on his professional career to integrate his native teachings with his scientific background, was a real show stealer and inspiration!  He is now traveling the World giving lectures and sharing what Native poeple have kept secret from their white brothers and sisters, mainly native contact with the 'Star people.'

I recently found an essay of mine composed for a freshman English class in college, around the year 1995, written at the age of 19.  I have always known, even at a young age, that our current system is way warped and really, it does not have to be this way!

                                                  Greed, Prejudice, Fear, Hate, Violence

They say money talks. That's funny, I've never heard it say anything.  Ha ha just kidding.  I know what they mean.  They mean that everything has a price, that you could buy anything if you have enough money.  Is this so? Could you buy the ozone layer once it is gone?  How much would it cost to buy pure air or pure water once it has all been toxified?  How many dollars would it cost to make whales plentiful again?  So, please take a deep clean breathe of fresh air while you can, look at your children and think about it.  Clearly, our civilization has a hugely warped idea of what progress really is, and that is what is screwing everything up.  It makes me want to barf.

What urge is there in us that wants everything to be the same? When something is different, when we do not understand why it is different, does something in us speak out, move us, wanting us to reshape the unknown into a thing to completely understand? Why can't we just leave it alone, leave behind some mystery? Do we have to crush everything into an understandable little mold to be sure we have control, so it does not run around being different and out of control? Out of control is scary, but is it not more scary to have everything the same?

Once a man told me a story of how he had gone to hell. He described his suffering as hideous, almost beyond belief! "Describe it," I said. 'Hell was just himself alone with his lifelong accumulation of hideous, ugly, selfish thoughts which gnawed on him, constantly reminding him of his lonely, endless, hopeless isolation.'  "This is Hell and you better believe it," he said.

A friend once explained that it take two opposing sides to make a war. If this is true, then riddle me this: If you do not want wars, how do you eliminate opposing sides without, at the same time, creating another conflict?

How many times must we go over the same road until we recognize that it is the same road we have gone over so many times before?

"From the 1960s through the '90s, there was a huge burst of creativity among artists who used the mail to create and send artworks.  Instead of paint, canvas, etc., their mediums were postcards, envelopes, rubber stamps, and the like.  Some of the works were like miniture paintings and collages, while others were basically text art.  But what makes this movement especially interesting in today's context is that none of the works were made to be sold.  Mail art was a true "do-it-yourself' phenomenon, in which everyone found and made their own materials and the medium of exchange was the art itself.  Mail art was never meant to be bought and sold.  Some of the artists also particiapated in the art market, but the point of mail art was to cut out commerce and make art that was truly for art's sake.  It was also very much about community building.  Considering the level of commoditization we've arrived at in the Art world, it is very refreshing to see these little artworks and think about who made them and why, and where they have been."