Welcome to my blog, a path that a lifetime can conjure and an outlet which thrills and frightens me.

Oh to rejoice the blog which will serve as a kind of muffled megaphone for my inspiration; ah trepidation, for the risk that as an artist I bear as I dare to share a bit of the heart and soul! "MY MUSE," the banner under which my inspirations will pour, flow, sputter, and stammer and at times, stunt, will investigate the passions of my life: art, books, food, style and the nature of the relationship to animal, vegetable and mythical. This may mean some dog and horse talk, but that’s as kinky as it gets. You won’t get political pontifications here, nor economic analysis. You will hear from the "artist’s muse," "the kitchen muse," "the "book muse," "the travel muse," and a couple of muses that will arrive via the local color.

Hopefully at times I will be able to amuse.

Thru my "muses," I willingly toss the yummy morsel of personal artistic experience to others, and thereby accept a potentially inevitable response: harsh and critical judgment. Here to wit, it is safer to self-flog and pour salt into one’s own wounds lest one can be ready for the beating that waits! But hey, here’s the truth. Today’s opportunity to take private pieces of musing into the public in turn invites public response for tomorrow’s art. (DRUMS ROLL) And the next best bumper sticker on the back of the artist’s van reads: "Angst if you want Art." So, in a way, criticism is collateral for inspiration, and I’m willing to collect if it means I might create decent poetry, paintings and prose!

You betcha!

And guess what? You might like what you see, hear, read and taste, for hopefully "My Muse" will please one or all your senses, even maybe intimately, and that point, I can murmur, "Far out, this is cool," Or even, "you like my work, you really, really do." Or maybe, in a kind of healthy selfish way, "who cares. I did for me." But truthfully, I aim to please and want this to be fun.

The truth is, I’m not getting any younger and neither are you! So, for a few more clichés: if not now when, for time marches and so the world turns… But in fact, I welcome your thoughts and so, bravely commit to the miracle of the blog. As a mere ludite, I cannot fathom a blog’s technical outreach but hereby embrace it for yea it can serve me well. Hence, like millions before me, I assume the blog position, as it were, as a conduit for self-expression, and let’s face it, a bit of self-indulgence. Please consider this installation a mere amuse bouche of what is to follow.

And so with best intention, namaste, and please, share "My Muse."

Copyright 2009  Alexis Deutsch Adler