In The Present

Online Gallery

2009-11-30T11:41:00.000-08:00

My online art gallery is refreshed and updated. Complete with online purchase offers, including a 2010 calendar. Thanks for taking the time to view my work. Enjoy!

Walking

2009-04-19T12:54:00.000-07:00

Walking is one of my favorite ways of quieting my mind. No matter what is happening in my life, when I walk without hurry, my thinking can easily return to peace and serenity.

Video and digital images: Tim Mammel, 2009.

Quiet Spheres

2009-04-01T13:28:00.000-07:00

We create spaces. And the spaces we create, influence who we are.
When we take time to make quiet peaceful surroundings for ourselves, it makes a difference. We can do this through various forms of art, architecture, prayer and meditation.

Digital Animation by Tim Mammel, 2009.

Waiting For a Miracle

2009-03-19T12:09:00.000-07:00

When I find myself sitting in a tucked-away-coffee shop somewhere and waiting, hoping for some miracle to dive down on me... yeah, I know, it's funny. Lots of God's miracles are dancing around me all the time. Someone take my blindfold off!!

Death, Passion, Life....The Gifts

2009-02-04T18:37:00.000-08:00

The death bell chimes in my heart. I wake up, alive! I'm reminded I have a precious gift to share with you...

We Are Seers

2009-01-25T13:26:00.000-08:00

Common are eyes that look. Precious are eyes that...
See.

In This Moment!

2008-11-13T12:02:00.000-08:00

It is amazing how I can run away from this moment. Dash off into the disgusting past or fearful future. All imaginings. This point in time, this moment, can heal the past and inspire the future, for the present holds everything. Wishes and memories hold nothing but fear and illusion. Peace is inside you; the externals are illusions and demons to distract from who you truly are.

--digital painting by Tim, 2008

The First Date: A Short Film

2008-05-06T21:20:00.000-07:00

Here is a quirky comedy about love,
created by Tim Millaway and
Tim Mammel.

Click Here....

Spring Fever, Monet, and e. e. cummings

2008-04-17T20:40:00.000-07:00

"springrhythmenergy"
digital animation by Tim Mammel, 2008

I've been walking around barefoot a lot for this past week. Shoes are one of the first things to go for me, after the thaw. It is difficult to describe my elation when I feel sharp stones and soft grass on the bottoms of my feet.

The onset of any season energizes me and Spring stirs its own curious intense feelings. I want to be outside all the time, walking, hiking, biking, boating, roller blading, anything! And more so than ever, I have the urge to do a million things at once. I want to run outside, be inside making art and writing, make music, run outside, go to art shows, listen to music, run outside, breath the warm air, run outside, and dive into books of poetry, especially love poetry. Yes, lest we forget the hallmark of Spring fever: the out-of-control urge to be in love.

Now, I'm not in a romantic relationship at this time. Nor do I intend to run out and impulsively jump into a fling in order to fill some sort of emptiness or hunger that Winter has left with me. I don't even feel discouraged. In fact, I take delight in seeing friends around me being in love, being happy for them, observing how nature runs its procreating programming in all species this time of year. The strong currents of Spring are giving me a renewed enthusiasm to connect with people. This year's planting season is turning up the volume of my appreciation for good friendships, deeper connection with the Creator and my own drive to create.

My current Springtime ecstasy has been shot into motion by a recent cacophony of art shows, musical performances, startlingly compassionate interactions with friends, and renewal of friendships of people I haven't seen since college. (Those of you who don't know me, that would be many, many years ago!)

Two artists that I always think of, especially in Spring, are the painter Claude Monet, and the poet e. e. cummings. Monet's paintings of his gardens are a true celebration for those who love their bare feet in wet grass and shallow warm ponds. e. e. cummings consistently strikes major chords with his quirky yet accessible poems. He wrote a lot about Spring, the intense initial awareness of beauty and creation. Birth and rebirth. Love and falling in love fit perfectly into the rhythm of Spring.

Here is one of my favorite love poems by e. e. cummings.

i carry your heart with me

i carry your heart with me(i carry it in
my heart)i am never without it(anywhere
i go you go,my dear; and whatever is done
by only me is your doing,my darling)
i fear
no fate(for you are my fate,my sweet)i want
no world(for beautiful you are my world,my true)
and it's you are whatever a moon has always meant
and whatever a sun will always sing is you

here is the deepest secret nobody knows
(here is the root of the root and the bud of the bud
and the sky of the sky of a tree called life;which grows
higher than the soul can hope or mind can hide)
and this is the wonder that's keeping the stars apart

i carry your heart(i carry it in my heart)

2008-01-23T10:45:00.001-08:00

All it takes is a moment to notice a calm space around you or to create a calm imaginary space. Here's a blue digital environment I created a while ago, where I cam immerse myself. When I remember, this brings me out of my thought-chatter and into the present moment! Peace.