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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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16 comments:
Doesn't life always play with one?
How could we make fun of it?
i would agree that life does play with one. i get into trouble when i forget it is play and take it seriously.
i am not sure how to make fun of life. or if i would want to.
what are your thoughts?
I think it's dangerous to try to make fun of life...isn't she an amazing old lady?
i agree.
life as an amazing old lady....wow!!!!!!
You know what?...I'm a person that needs, constant, to know people thoughts or feelings and I try to interprete them by seeing their expressions as long as we talk, and this is the first time you let me know so well a reaction.
another first......amazing.
I would say I hope that more frequent, but I'm not used to hope nothing from no one or something.
someone once told me that hope can be a double edged sword. an expression, i am not sure you have....
to go with the flow.......that would be a gift......not to go leading with hopes. hopes can be like the rocks that can turn into rapids. to embrace rather than hope.
not there yet, of course.
You just remembered me how much I hate hopes. They can just distroy you by making you feel so........"alive".
yet, isn't hope "for" something. which is also to hope something else does not happen?
can't we just embrace life without judging it?
having said that, i do just that all the time.
How could we judge life? Isn't she so perfect that we cannot just handdle her ways of move?
As a said, very famous in here "La vida es bella, el bellaco es uno"...life is beautiful, the knave is one.
had not heard that saying. thanks.
how can we judge life? yet, how can we stop judging it?
Hard to remove vices...
vices tend to be traveling companions as we walk along....
As the wind...we know it's somewhere and we feel it when we forget it.
like the wind.....sometimes a gentle breeze. sometimes a destructive one.
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