I wrote and illustrated a post for Nurses Week for Off the Charts, the blog of the American Journal of…
Discovering Our Inner Lewis and Clark
Those of us living in the Banana Belt of downtown Portland were spared the large amount (up to 8 inches)…
A Random Encounter: Nurse, Artist, and Tree
There’s a tree I walk past often, and on my way home from work one day I decided to take…
Random Thoughts of Crows, Butterflies and Transformation
Last Fall I watched a murder of crows scavenge through a city park, mingling with a flock of pigeons. One…
Happy National Bird Day: The Hummingbird
On my walk to work I looked up, which is somewhat unusual in that most of the time I am…
2019: Days of Miracle and Wonder
These are the days of miracle and wonder -Paul Simon New Year’s Eve 2018 marked the twentieth anniversary of…
The Two Hands of Mindfulness
Late on a Friday afternoon I sat on the floor of a shared office space in semi-lotus position, dismantling the…
Down The Rabbit Hole Part II
Just over a year ago I had the opportunity to show some of my paintings and speak to a live…
SirenNation Art Show Opening
Imagine my surprise to find my painting Quickened Toward All Celestial Things has been given a street view exhibition space…
SirenNation Visual Art Show, Portland Oregon, November 2018
Quickened Towards All Celestial Things, graphite, acrylic, oil on wood, 20″ x 20″ by Julianna Paradisi 2018 https://jparadisirn.com/gallery/ On exhibit…
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