THE DAVYD WHALEY FOUNDATION AT TEN YEARS
“Make art, buy the art of others, help people whenever possible, and try to grow in consciousness.”
DREAMS OF SANTA FE TRAIL
“The house I dream of is gone. It caught fire decades ago, then someone else rebuilt it — same address, same general shape — but it became something my sleeping mind refuses to recognize. My psyche keeps the blueprint of the original, and it always returns to a floor plan that no longer exists anywhere on earth except behind my own eyes. It means the only place I can still meet my parents as they were then is one that has ceased to be. I find this unbearably sad, but also a mysterious gift. The house I lost to fire is the one house I am never able to lose.”
EMBRACING SYNCHRONICITY
January 10, 2015 “SYNCHRONICITY was painted at my house, without any memory of painting it. It was painted with enamel house paint and oils on canvas. The title was selected
MONKEY, A PAINTING, AND CHILDREN WHO ARE DIFFERENT
December 21, 2014 Davyd Whaley remains constantly on my mind. I’ve been going through his journals, and studying his paintings to commune with him, and in the process I’ve come
DAVYD WHALEY’S BIRTHDAY 2014
December 6, 2014 Today is Davyd Whaley’s birthday. He would have been 47. The sadness I feel about his loss wraps around me every day, like a cold wind barreling
EULOGY FOR DAVYD WHALEY
October 25, 2014 Thornton Wilder wrote, “The greatest tribute to the dead is not grief but gratitude.” So first of all, I am deeply grateful to Davyd, for all that
DAVYD’S MESSENGERS
October 18, 2014 It has been three days since Davyd Whaley passed away. Above is one of his paintings, which hung in our house for a long time until he
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