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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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Would you see yourself of the same way you would see me?
How long are you able to see yourself?
i like these questions.
i wonder how long we do look at ourselves. rather than looking outward in order to define our inner selves. if i don't see you, is it because i am only seeing myself or not seeing at all? if i can step away from my own self and really look at you, does that enable me to look at myself with clearer eyes rather than ones clouded by the ego?
Oh! The ego, ego. What a beautiful and dangerous.......friend, perhaps?
To see at one self could just blind us of seing something else, what a sad true, what a irritant definition of ego.
What would happen if one could really step away from one self?
if i could step away from being me, would i become Me? if i did not look at myself close-up, would i be able to see the horizon of self and that which lies in between.....?
for some reason, i seem to speak more abstractly with you, sara. interesting......
Would we ruin the great idea of someday could step away from ourselves as we are used to ruin every beatiful image in world?.......humans.
I'm not sure if we could keep the capacity of being ourselves if we, precisely, step away from ourselves.
I take a seat. I look trhough my window right up to sky. I sigh, I feel sorry and I feel sad. I realize you are far away and then I think...if I could step away from myself, could I visit you to share a cup of coffe in the form I get?
Form....mmm yeah, what form would I get if I leave myself?
Or we could drink soda while we discuss what could be the reason we both think the same on this matter that you and me talk more abstractly with each other.
it seems that in this form of communication we do step away from ourselves, to some degree. which enables us to see aspect of the other clearer and yet....the day to day stuff not at all.
if i step away from myself, am i stepping away from the context of me? and if we met for coffee, would the conversation change?
once, i stayed for a while in canada. i packed my stuff up here and put it in storage. my mail (other than that of friends writing me in canada) went to a friend's house. and then, i realized that in order to feel some sense of normal in my life, i needed a real address, even if i were away from it. i like to color outside the lines, but without the lines, it is more difficult...........
The margens that contains our inner feelings are the margens we can't remake for sure.
I think my margens concept would fit in your lines as a term and due to is so hard to unlearn to learn again, you can't leave your lines as, for me, no one can leave their margens but they can make them bigger when they consider it is nessesary.
that is a huge statement.....it really is hard to unlearn so that we can learn again....at least, in my experience.
I tried once, I really did; but everything just got......not really good.
perhaps unlearning is just letting letting go of information that no longer has a meaning or context.
Or an exit for something we do not need anymore but that once served us well.
unlearning as an exit....cool.
what is the front door?
The one we entered into trouble for, perhaps?
So that unlearning could be the exit.
very cool.......
I just got the picture of someone using the exit and that this one takes this person to the begining of where he started. That would be so funny but then I wonder, what would happen if it were this way? Would it be for punishing us and so that would be the reason unlearning is so dificult? So we would have to cross through this exit over and over again until we unlearn so that we could get finaly to the "learn again"?
What the hell did I just say?
It made me laugh.
i do believe you just found yourself going through the exit and becoming face to face with the beginning....but without an exit how would we get to the beginning? is not each moment a beginning?
no time to pause to wonder what we said....it is reconfiguring itself as we speak......
Not if that moment is the continuation of some other moment which could be or not the beginning, if it had not started yet.
That last sound like "Conservation of the matter" or that's just what I thought first or I realized with.
yes. maybe it is all of those.
Yes...nowdays everything can be several things at the same time.
when is everything nothing?
Never, because even nothing is something...I think.
interesting....nothing is something but something is not nothing. everything is something and something is everything.
I saw that as a dance....I liked it.
How's your computer, by the way?
a dance. i like it. life is a dance, after all.
as for the computer situation, i was told i needed a new computer and so am adjusting to one that is totally different. for me, it has not been a dance.....it would be helpful to remember that. then, i found out my former computer could be repaired so in a few days, it will be back here
the big news is that i ordered one of those pens and tablets that will allow me to draw right into the computer. i might even add color. so, maybe by the time it comes, i will be more comfortable with this one. thanks for asking.
Just interested.
Your welcome.
thanks again for being interested.
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