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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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I have wonder once, if fire and water are enemies or they are just agreeing their conditions...
if rain (water) could bring an end to the fire, would it be an enemy? if fire and water cannot co-exist for any length of time, would they be perfect opposites? and if so, would that mean they were a version of soul mates?
If rain could bring that end to fire, would it do it? And if they can't be toguether, would that give a chance for them to be the soul mate of each other?
I worry about the enemy word, does that really exist? Isn't when someone is our enemy another way of caring very much of us?
sometimes we label others as "enemy". do we do that in order to find a way to feel safe or to justify not feeling safe?
are perfect opposites soul mates?
in science, for there to be a neuton, there must be an anti- neutron........if i understand that correctly. and if they come together, they nullify each other.
what does that say about such a soul mate?
I guess now we are talking about how nature makes control on everything, the famous balance of the existence.
And at the end, how are suppossed to be perfect soul mates?
Does science says that the one who can destroy is also the one who can complete your essence?
i have encountered teachers but never a soul mate. at least, to my knowledge.
the anti particles cannot be together with their opposites or they both are destroyed. so to perfectly balance another.........is that something that cannot exist?
and is a soul mate someone who makes life effortless or one who challenges us?
Right.........I would go fo both, effortless and challege.
Do you really believe in soul mates?
i believe that i believe that i don't know what a soul mate is.
I love words games.
Would to know that, be one of the things you never discover but at the end of the life?
or maybe i know at the beginning but forget before i remember how to remember.
This is like old romance's songs.
Do we need help to do that?
how do we get that help?
As we get the other helps?...by being faithfull?
being faithful to remembering or to our forgetting?
Oh...dear, I'm afraid I have no words.
But here this is: when are we faithful, when we need to be or when we hope we were?
maybe being faithful to not knowing.
Leaving a complete universe.
seeing the completion in what seems incomplete........
Like saying empty or almost full.
yes, but then we do not look at the vessel only the contents.
And is it still empty or almost full without looking at the contents?
if i look at the vessel and not the contents, then it is simply a vessel that empties out and fills back up again...reminding me of my own life, the vessel i am. it becomes about the emptying and the filling not what is static, no matter whether it be half full or half empty.
I see.........do you think you could see your soul and thoughts like that?
as long as i don't think about it.
Jajaja...right.
Well point.
so maybe in this moment we are gazing out on a horizon too far away to see............
Or it's night and we are not seeing clear...
Maybe it is to be felt with our fingertips.
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