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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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7 comments:
I have heard this sentence before....
yes, i like to use common sentences such as this one....but with an added question about how to play with the sentence. maybe it will take me to a new place. or at least to a new question......
I have actually done that before. In a night time cold medicine haze I laid in bed with the lights off and not being able to see my hands, I reached for my feet to make sure they were still there.
so your feet helped you see what your eyes could not?
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Hi Anne ! Im yayuk or Yuke,54 year old age Indonesian.
Dont sad ! You are not only..
Does the world seem smaller in the dark? Or infinite? Does the world seem minuscule under a microscope? Or grandiose?
In the dark, or under light we see what we feel. Depending on how you're feeling the world can be seen as infinite shrouded possibilities, or a coffin.
To me, I guess, what we see is a symbol of our optimism or lack thereof.
And since I'm a slave to my emotions, my world alternates with alarming regularity between a coffin and infinite possibility.
The candle (or darkness) doesn't get much of a say in what it lets me see.
Do candles grow or shrink your world?
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