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Jerry Wennstrom
The paradox of letting everything go and the mystery of its return express the deeper meaning of 'to make it sacred.'
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Jerry Wennstrom
 There were many whispers along the way pointing to this metaphoric plunge "into the thicket". I was extremely driven as a young artist and had produced an enormous body of work by the time I was 29. It was at this point that I began to feel art, as I had known it, had taken me as far as it possibly could.
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Jerry Wennstrom and David Whyte, Foundation of Creativity
I have enjoyed so much my meetings with Jerry Wennstrom.
This is a second project that Jerry has given me, to create a video that highlights some of the good things that the poet David Whyte had to say about Jerry and his work.
I find both these men speaking deep truths that we all can listen to. Like David sites the increadable difficulty we have to claim our own happiness. That rings so true for me.
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Life inspired, Jerry Wennstrom
If my life is my inspiration
If life is my inspiration then I don't need to search for out side inspiration OF my life.
How does Jerry do it? He may be an inspiration for many, but that is not his message. To make your own life the vibrant force that makes itself go. That may be what he is modeling. It can't be that difficult. Give us a hint. I don't know, therein lies my prayer
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Jerry Wennstrom's Artwork Featured in full length movie
Jerry is a featured artist in "Mythic Journeys", a movie by Steven and Whitney Boe. When Jerry got permission from them to use their film as a springboard to show off his art, he asked me if I would be interested in piecing the short together. I have always thought of movie making, and at the same time I have always resisted putting too much time and effort into effects and graphics.
In fact, you see that Never Not Here is always in the simplest of formats. Just today I announced the public access expansion into Rhode Island. Would graphics and motion make any difference to what we do?
In the mean time, see what a magical life Jerry Wennstrom has lead as an artist.
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Renewal and the "territory" of loss and emptiness, with Jerry Wennstrom
I was deeply touched by this interaction
How clear it became that the emptiness left over after a "chunk of belief" drops, appears as a loss.
That "thought" of loss, along with the feelings it incurs, is what is interpreted as fear and terror. It is just a sensation, interpreted as some real "risk". Even terror doesn't exist as an external entity.
We had planned to talk a week later. Then during a camera test, after I had just done another interview, we very spontaneously, decided to talk about spontaneity.
I saw how even that I was holding as a concept. Dialogue of June 9th 2010
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