It has been almost a year since my initial post. A century of a year, so much has occurred. A lifetime of a year that has left me humbler, softer, clearer and more deeply in love with the miracle of Being than I will ever be able to express.
Pertinent to this particular entry is the site's change of focus, which reflects my own. I have lost touch with my Thai friend. I have found my 'voice' as an artist, joined my kids on FaceBook, moved to another city, welcomed a new baby into the family, formed new friendships, written new poetry and painted for evenings and weekends on end.
From now on I'll use this spot in space to share my paintings and poetry with the hope they may bring a twinkle to at least one other pair of eyes. I paint and write to express the joy that rises up in me and will not let me rest until it has manifested. I paint for the joy that activity creates in me -- the wonder of juxtaposed forms, colours, textures, contrasts and most wonderful of all -- edges.
Edges fascinate me. As demarcations between impossibilities, they exist where one thing ceases and another begins. A leaf becomes bark, a cloud becomes the sun. Transformations can be sudden, shocking, even brutal, or fade gently from one way of being to another in such sensual gradation that they carry you aloft, like the colours in a sunset sky.
May you be aware of your edges and feel them as they touch and reform around the world as you move and speak and breathe. May you find joy and wonder and serenity here, dancing amongst the colours.
The piece that leads this post is entitled, The Incredible Lightness I'm Feeling and was completed a few days ago...El
Beautiful and talented woman !!! :-)
ReplyDeleteI attended a workshop this past weekend on "Sensory Awareness" and some of the exercises we were led through reminded me of your thoughts on edges. Reflecting on that this morning, I am taken to vivid memories of swimming out past the breaking waves and floating on my back in the swells. When I've done this I've always had a sense of being suspended at the edge between two dimensions. At the same time I am aware that the difference between the two is mostly a matter of density. As any skydiver will tell you, air behaves very much like water. In freefall, as air flows around one's body and between one's fingers, it feels nearly exactly like water.
ReplyDeleteJust some thoughts I wanted to share.....