Art and thoughts by Roger Vincent Jasaitis

This Speaks My Mind

  • What’s the big idea?

    My digital presence (RVJart.com, This Speaks My Mind, Facebook) are coming up on the 3rd anniversary of their birth. It has been an interesting journey. I have become a writer and learned computer programming. I have widened the circle of interest in my work locally and globally. I have sharpened my abilities and discernment in…

  • Duende

    I saw my first live flamenco show in Madrid, Spain about 14 years ago in a small tavern called Casa Patas tucked away on a narrow side street in the old section of town. It changed my life because I became aware of duende. Duende is when, during a performance, the Spirit or Life force…

  • God and Obscurity

    God and other artists are always a little obscure ~ Oscar Wilde I recently finished reading the new novel by Sue Monk Kidd The Invention of Wings. In the story, the main character in the process of becoming a Quaker, sits in Worship, trying to discern the will of God in her personal life. This…

  • The Giving and Taking of Beauty

    Art is both the taking and giving of beauty; the turning out to the light the inner folds of the awareness of the spirit. It is the recreation on another plane of the realities of the world; the tragic and wonderful realities of earth and men, and of all the inter-relations of these. ~Ansel Adams…

  • Speaking of Food, What’s a heifer?

    Strolling of the Heifers is a local fundraising event in nearby Brattleboro, Vermont in early June every year. It is a twist on Pamplona’s Running of the Bulls in Spain. But just what is a heifer? I was having dinner recently with a Japanese friend and the subject of cows came up. She didn’t realize…