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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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23 comments:
if i gift your crayons and paints instead of the coloring book,would you still ask for a particle of star dust?
And if you have coloring book without lines,would the pages me blank so that you can spill your colors and create a world of art?
you might decide that a particle of stardust was a coloring book.......
in a sense a coloring book without lines might seem to be blank. to some, quite obviously so; yet, it also could contain all the images i will ever draw in a lifetime.
from many possibilities, a simple line slowly appearing over time and speaking to me of the journey.
Our Birthdays are a celebration of our receiving a coloring book without lines.
mhb yes.......and if i am made from stardust, will i draw the universe on the pages before me?
On our breaths is the color with which we will fill the world.
to be mindful of breathing.....is more than a meditation then, mwb.......
Sometimes we use so much energy coloring the world, we need to spend time alone with our own breath.
there is that.....to be "alone with our own breath" feels healing to me. although our breath, like bh's smoke, (in pt.2) will leave us and go out into the world, even though we are not focusing on it doing so.
if i am understanding quantum physics correctly: and who knows about that; then when i breathe in, i am also breathing in subatomic particles from that which is around me.
so, looking at it from that point of view, can i be alone with my own breath?
You would get the coloring book without lines. The stardust is either within you or not.
a little bit of stardust to build a dream on..., you are the dream, awake, and get the crayons and paints..., and make a selfportrait. voilà, the best beautiful piece of stardust...
happy birthday
e&f, thanks! i like the idea of drawing a self-portrait in a coloring book without lines!
A colouring book without lines, but full of images of life you lead, I may not be able to give you a particle of stardust ....becos ....i couldn't even collect it up in a way....but i hope to give you a ray of sunlight ....as impossible as the stardust ....but that is what about in a birthday....wish upon a star or a hope for a better tomorrow ???
The book would be a join-the-dots, and the dots would be particles of stardust...
Many Happy Returns of the Day to you Anne Artist. I hope you receive a shower of such particles.
ramps, thank you for the beautiful wish. and i do like join-the-dots coloring books. there is something about connecting......
and dots made of stardust would be perfect.
i listen to television shows about science. and often, it is reported that we are made of stardust....from times too ancient to be able to fathom.
so, to give me a coloring book with dots made of the building blocks of life would be a gift, indeed!
s.a., a ray of sunlight.....
a very kind gift. impossible to give as you say, but the wishing makes it so.....
Trusting soul that you are
You should be careful in asking the devil for a gift
At least I promise the box will be very pretty :)
ll, i am rewriting my comment that i just erased. it seemed unclear to me rather than abstract.
instead, i will ask you.....if you promise me that the box will be pretty, does that mean that you yourself are the devil?
trusting soul that i am, i thought that human beings read this blog....am i confused?
Interesting question. The devil lies, so the devil would say only humans read your blog.
But I think everyone can say your blog is amusing, and thought provoking.
ll, thank you.
does the devil read? i mean, i've never seen the devil wearing reading glasses....
will try...you can spray the stardust on your coloring book
just like how life is that coloring book you asked for? it is romantic and tragic sometimes in its ways....boundless/boundful. colorless/colorful. right/wrong. such is interpreted in so many ways....
n, a very colorful way to describe it......
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