Butterfly Art Collage

"Distractions softly hover in the corners of my mind 
like a butterfly haunts a flower." ~M

"Butterfly Collage"   ©Maleko 2012
Colored Pencils, Watercolors, Pen/Ink, Pastels and Crayons - Collage created using PicMonkey

I only ask to be free.  The butterflies are free.  ~Charles Dickens

"Just living is not enough," said the butterfly, "one must have sunshine, 
freedom and a little flower."  ~Hans Christian Andersen

Happiness is a butterfly, which when pursued, is always just beyond your grasp, but which, 
if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you.  ~Nathaniel Hawthorne

The butterfly is a flying flower, The flower a tethered butterfly.
~Ponce Denis Écouchard Lebrun   

The butterfly counts not months but moments, and has time enough.  
~Rabindranath Tagore

We delight in the beauty of the butterfly, but rarely admit the changes it has gone 
through to achieve that beauty.  ~Author Unknown

 
I do not know whether I was then a man dreaming I was a butterfly, 
or whether I am now a butterfly dreaming I am a man.  ~Chuang Tzu

A Mother's Transcendence

"A Mother's Transcendence" written by Maleko ©2011

“Alaskan Wildflower” photograph by Maleko ©2009

To My Mom - Thank you for doing all these things and so much more for our family

To My Wife - Thank you for being this kind of mother to our daughter, I admire who you are and are becoming

I love you both, Happy Mother's Day 2011!!!

What do you BELIEVE in?

I just posted my first video on YouTube!  It is set to the music of the TSO 

song "BELIEVE" from the 2009 Night Castle album and initially recorded

by Savatage. This video is in response to a contest the band is running to 

create a video of what you believe in set to the music.

I believe in faith, family, friends and the 

ever present beauty that is found in creation. 

Beyond the pain and sadness that comes in 

this life is the ever sustaining power of grace. 

 The times when there seems to be no justice 

only mercy, we always have our hopes, 

our dreams and the faith to believe.

MalekoArts YouTube Channel - to view video click here >>>

A Bright Spot

Flowers in bloom, begin in the cold dark depths of the of the earth.

To offer to us their beauty that is freely given but not meant to last.

Spring brings forth new life and new hopes.

To show your true beauty should be the endeavor of every man.