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Former President & CEO of multiple hospital systems and founding president & CEO of 20-hospital OhioHealth, best selling author, film artist, ordained minister, composer, published poet, syndicated T.V. host, trial attorney, federal prosecutor and Municipal Court Judge. Erie is internationally known as the founder of the Radical Loving Care(R)movement. He also heads Erie Chapman Foundation, Dane Dakota Productions, LLC, and Chapman Health International, Inc.

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Former President & CEO of multiple hospital systems and founding president & CEO of 20-hospital OhioHealth, best selling author, film artist, ordained minister, composer, published poet, syndicated T.V. host, trial attorney, federal prosecutor and Municipal Court Judge. Erie is internationally known as the founder of the Radical Loving Care(R)movement. He also heads Erie Chapman Foundation, Dane Dakota Productions, LLC, and Chapman Health International, Inc.

Finding Joy in Mixed “Realities”?

Crain Estate Surreality 1.2mbAn advantage of early childhood is fantastical thinking. Santa, for example. Encroaching adulthood explodes those fantasies. 

I once found it peaceful to imagine a Christmas where Santa Claus' sleigh glided through the night sky overflowing with presents. If you thought like that, did you feel tricked when you found out there was no Santa? 

That news struck me hard enough so that, at 8, I asked my dad, "If Santa is fake, what about God?"

In my artwork, I've been creating fantastical "worlds" ever since. It is a way to reclaim joy.

Surreal art, where recognizable things are rearranged and fantasized, can open new pathways to peace. I made a mixed media video  for you ((revised from a prior posting) using sites like rain falling on roses and the glorious back yard of a rich Massachusetts estate* in ways I hope bring you delight.

Click Here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IOzbblQIXdk

-Erie Chapman

*The Crain Estate (altered), now open to the public. 

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2 responses to “Finding Joy in Mixed “Realities”?”

  1. Liz Wessel Avatar
    Liz Wessel

    I for one wish to thank you for this lovely meditative ” fantastical world ” you bring us to with peace-filled music, your calming lyrical voice, the images of flowers unfolding amidst birdsong, rain nourishing the earth, the sounf ot eh the ocean, the magical glimmers of stars at nightfall…thunder and lightening…all as blessing. Thank you for sharing these gifts with us, Erie. Truly renewing and life giving.

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    Erie Chapman Foundation

    Your comments connected to things I post in multiple locations are always such a joy, Liz. And especially so here. You offer the kindness of not just your overall experience of this little piece but take the trouble to single out individual elements. This matters so much to someone like me. You are such a delicate, strong and loving gift. Thank you.

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