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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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What answer would you give if you find yourself?
if i found myself, then i might not be lost but would i lose myself again so that i could discover myself once more?
and you?
Maybe I think I could find myself but if I were nowhere to be found, where would I start looking in?
And if I find myself, how do I know that what I founf it's me and not another thing...do I really know that enough myself for can recognize it?
that is a huge question.........do i know myself well enough to recognize me blindfolded? or even face to face.........
To face...I have always got impressed with that english language expression.
If I think I could face myself, wouldn't that be to face the immensity of the world?
i like that.
and if i face myself, am i also facing that which i cannot see?
We have faced, in many times, things that we don't know...it's possible we could face things we cannot see.
so if i feel like i don't know myself, would i think i could see myself?
Have you hear about the saying that tells us we have a third eye?
I think we could see ourselves...with that third eye and keep thinking we cannot see ourselves due to these third eye's images are difficult to recognize they are from the third eye.
so we have more than one set of eyes and they might not reveal the same images........
Yes, I guess so...
that gives a new meaning to the term.......double vision......
And I luagh anout a drunk guy......but yes, I like the double vision term.
recreating language..........
About* ...ups
is this a new language?
I think we have already made our own language...that's one of the things that friendship is used to do to people who find it.
that is beautiful. and it does not even have to involve words......it can be about the space in between them. what is said that goes beyond words.
it seems that friendship does not depend on words.....
I would even dare to say friendship manages things such the wind to connect thous who need to be connected...
yes........the wind......
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