Images...
I don't even know where to start tonight. Words are failing me as I try to think of everything that's been going on since my last post. This has been an amazing week for me. I've met with many people, had several great conversations, learned a lot about myself... It's been an eye-opening week. I'm not talking just about the eyes in my head, but my inner eye has been opened and the images flooding my soul have been breathtaking.
Ok. That may not have made a lot of sense, but the images are key to understanding. I'm an artist, or at least I try to be one, and I'm finding that images can portray my thoughts a lot better than words but I'm going to attempt to use words to describe what I see in my head.
One Image. Imagine looking out onto a sea of grey faces trudging down a street. All shades of grey. Grey buildings hemming them in as they trudge down their paths, a colorless sky in the background. Everyone is complacent, apathetic, mundane. Then something changes. Someone walks towards you out of the crowd. This person is different, they are color. Not like a colorized black and white image, but pure color, no distinguishable features except vibrant color in the form of a person.
As this figure approaches you the colors move and you realize that the color isn't IN the figure, the color is what is seen THROUGH the figure. You can still see the grey people walking down the grey street between the grey buildings under the colorless sky, but as this figure approaches to the point that a solid form would be blocking out much of the mundane view you have, you see through this form into a world of color. A blue lake shimmering in the distance, green trees and plants stretching out before you full of life, Birds aflight in a sky full of the colors of the sunrise. The center of the figure is the sun coming up on the horizon of the lake, the pinks, oranges, purples of the sky blending beautifully. Tranquility in the figure before you. Peace. Serenity.
I've been seeing a lot of those people lately. So many different scenes. Some a new sunrise, some a brightly lit summer day, some a troubled sky over a storm tossed ocean waiting for the calmness that eventually will come... All very beautiful.
Another image familiar to many... A pebble tossed into a mirror-calm lake creating a ripple effect. The ring of ripples expands from the point the pebble broke the surface to the very edges of the lake. One simple act, throwing a pebble in a lake produces a huge effect on surrounding body of water. You don't know how far the ripples can expand. One thing you do can and will affect everything around you. The effects of the action can't be anticipated until the action is done. Even when the waters have calmed again, you have changed the lake because your pebble now is in the lake.
These are just two of the images that I've been seeing everywhere lately. The first is one I'm working on painting, the second is just one I'm noticing and am amazed by.
Outlook: Very positive.
Attitude: Sitting here just smiling in bewildered awe at the wonders happening around me.
On my mind: The greatest thing you'll ever learn is just to love and be love loved in return. ~Moulin Rouge!~
Ok. That may not have made a lot of sense, but the images are key to understanding. I'm an artist, or at least I try to be one, and I'm finding that images can portray my thoughts a lot better than words but I'm going to attempt to use words to describe what I see in my head.
One Image. Imagine looking out onto a sea of grey faces trudging down a street. All shades of grey. Grey buildings hemming them in as they trudge down their paths, a colorless sky in the background. Everyone is complacent, apathetic, mundane. Then something changes. Someone walks towards you out of the crowd. This person is different, they are color. Not like a colorized black and white image, but pure color, no distinguishable features except vibrant color in the form of a person.
As this figure approaches you the colors move and you realize that the color isn't IN the figure, the color is what is seen THROUGH the figure. You can still see the grey people walking down the grey street between the grey buildings under the colorless sky, but as this figure approaches to the point that a solid form would be blocking out much of the mundane view you have, you see through this form into a world of color. A blue lake shimmering in the distance, green trees and plants stretching out before you full of life, Birds aflight in a sky full of the colors of the sunrise. The center of the figure is the sun coming up on the horizon of the lake, the pinks, oranges, purples of the sky blending beautifully. Tranquility in the figure before you. Peace. Serenity.
I've been seeing a lot of those people lately. So many different scenes. Some a new sunrise, some a brightly lit summer day, some a troubled sky over a storm tossed ocean waiting for the calmness that eventually will come... All very beautiful.
Another image familiar to many... A pebble tossed into a mirror-calm lake creating a ripple effect. The ring of ripples expands from the point the pebble broke the surface to the very edges of the lake. One simple act, throwing a pebble in a lake produces a huge effect on surrounding body of water. You don't know how far the ripples can expand. One thing you do can and will affect everything around you. The effects of the action can't be anticipated until the action is done. Even when the waters have calmed again, you have changed the lake because your pebble now is in the lake.
These are just two of the images that I've been seeing everywhere lately. The first is one I'm working on painting, the second is just one I'm noticing and am amazed by.
Outlook: Very positive.
Attitude: Sitting here just smiling in bewildered awe at the wonders happening around me.
On my mind: The greatest thing you'll ever learn is just to love and be love loved in return. ~Moulin Rouge!~
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