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one of my paintings done with watercolor crayons
celebrating the art of paradox
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delving into the wisdom of absurdity in whimsical way
this blog is about paradox.
through my questions, i hope to encounter the paradox within belief, that place where there is not one answer but many contradictory ones.
each question, each drawing is an invitation to join me in allowing what appears absurd to take us to a wisdom beyond linear thinking.
as long as we question, we are free. free to see, to feel and to express who we are. and to connect collaboratively with one another.
About Me
- anne artist
- i am a painter who began my career as a child coloring outside the lines of my coloring books. i am a writer who started out by composing adventure stories while riding my stick horse around the backyard. as a child, i got in trouble for asking too many questions...i question that.
you can find my cartoons in this online magazine!
http://thoughtsonsale.com/
here is the link to my photography blog about simplicity:
on a clear day she could see forever
one of my paintings done with watercolor crayons
"the emperor's new clothes" by hans christian andersen
this fairy tale has been a companion to me as i have traveled through my life.
briefly, it is about an emperor who was deceived by two tailors who said they were making a set of clothing out of a "dream" fabric. in reality, they used no fabric at all. to make their scam complete, they announced that only those who were wise enough would be able to see the beautiful clothing. and so, no one, not even the emperor, admitted to being unable to see it.
wearing his new "clothing", the emperor paraded through his kingdom. no one questioned his appearance; no one wished to appear less than wise.
until a small child asked, "why is the emperor not wearing any clothes?"
so it is that i ask, if i question rather than believe i am wise, what will i see?
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Why would you take what is mine?
i might think i deserved it. i might not see your needs. i might need to fill up a hole inside with what seems to belong to other people.
i mean, i would not......but there are some ideas.
Then...would dare to take away from me, something I could need more than anything else? Because that's one of the risks you're taking by get what is mine.
i doubt that if someone wanted to take something from you, it would seem as interesting to take what you don't need.....maybe it is like.....if it helps you, then maybe it could heal the emptiness inside the taker......might be the taker's thought....or not.
What if it seems the owner doesn't need, but it does...would that also be heal?
have you tried to give away something you don't need? what happens?
is there not a difference between taking and asking for? what is to be gained from taking and once taken, does it ever belong to the one who has taken it?
It happens that I lose something but I don't feel it like lost.
If you yield something, then it stops being yours; so that the thing you asked for can be yours, if you just take it, I think the desition must be made by the taken thing.
if you lose something, how do you feel about what has been lost?
ah, so the thing taken has a role, also. i like it!
It depends on the value it had to me.
Of course, everything has a role. Things exist for some reason, that's their roles.
and what is value?
it seems often people thing objects are inanimate and have no role except to be used. or discarded. and so forth.
Feeling value, I ment.
We people still have to learn so many things as objects might have more than one used, or maybe they are not just to be used...and also have a role in world.
ah....feeling value. the story.....
and if i am not being useful, then i begin to wonder if i have a value, a role......is that not how we are conditioned to think?
Even if you're not useful, something or someone will have feelings for you, feelings of any kind; so these value is never lost, it just changes...I guess.
and to be of value just because i am not because i am useful......
If I know you don't have value, you would be valuer for me than a thing with value just for being useful.
basically, i just am. and there will be those who find value in that and those that don't. if i expect to be valued then i lose my own way in valuing myself.
Ok.
I value you.
thank you. and i you.
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