Messy Thrilling Life: The Art of Figuring Out How to Live

by Sabrina Ward Harrison

The creator of the stunning visual memoirs Spilling Open and Brave on the Rocks continues her personal journey of growth and discovery in this collection of striking multimedia collages and prose that... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0812967666
• ISBN13: 9780812967661
• Release Date: August 2004
• Publisher: Villard Books
• Length: 1 Pages
• Weight: 1.09 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 9.0" x 9.1"

Customer Reviews

Sabrina is amazing!

This is one of my favorite books ever!!! I received it as a gift, and then I bought one for all of my friends! Sabrina has a way with words. The artwork is just perfect. I love taking this book to the beach and getting lost in it for hours. Simply reading her words helps me to relax. Her outlook is fantastic, and it really rubs off on the reader. Wonderfully whimsical. Highly recommended!

Sabrina Always Inspires

I have all of Sabrina Ward Harrison's books and every time I look at any of them - which is a lot - I always find something new. I appreciate her willingness to let everything pour out of her and fall wherever it falls. Brave and honest!

Great book to encourage your Artistry inside your heart.

I love SARK and I started to like Sabrina! She is cute and honest and sparkling. This is a messy books, with pictures, photos, and words. The words are typed, written, scrapped, painted in all possible way, reminding me of the art class in campus. Yet, somehow you will =feel= Sabrina. In the darkness, you can always feel the beauty of pure emotions. This is somehow a bit =darker= than =Spilling Open=, showing some sort of maturity of Sabrina. I love these sort of Messy Meaningless Meaningful Garbage Talk, the beautifully Ugly handwritings that evoke youe soul, somehow it will connect you with your own heart. Good for gift for women of all ages (some men will find it meaningless, but some will also like it, i do).

Messy Lives are Okay

I bought this book during a time when my life was beyond messy. When I got home, I filled up the tub with a hot water and bubbles and stepped in with my new book and a waterbottle. As I flipped each page, reading...getting an inside look at Sabrina's pain, joy, trials and adventures, I cried, I put myself in her pages...I was inspired to be true to my own feelings in my art..and was assured that having a messy time in my life was something that would cause me to GROW..to discover truths about myself. I knew I wasn't alone. I love this book.

A Wonderful Mess!

Sabrina has done it again--choreography with art, photography and pros. In her third visual treat in book form she once again delights the heart and tickles the spirit with memories and images that explode off of every page. This time out, there are not as many of Sabrina's insightful pros, but her unique style of scrawling words as an integral part of her art makes the reading adventure an act of diligent discovery. Some will find it challenging. I love it and I'm not a young man. I applaud Sabrina for following her own muse throughout the creative and publishing process. (As an author, I know that's not always an easy experience.) With fewer words, though, there is room for a greater number of her brilliant and evocative photos that invite us to crawl inside and wonder around. From her love of colorful shoes to her many beautiful lady friends, her talented father, and old books on the street, she takes us on a magical journey through the marvelous messiness of life. Her drawings continue to dazzle and inspire this life-long sketcher. Get this--or any of Sabrina's three books-- and crawl in and join the dance!