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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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18 comments:
yes i would :)
I'd like to be a cloud anyhoo
fluffy like Gabriel
But if the sky was falling
I'd be more useful as a hole
Lazarus Lupin
http://strangespanner.blogspot.com/
art and review
and what would you be doing as a hole?
i am wondering if the sky were falling and a cloud were to rise in those circumstances......what would that create?
I'll become a cloud and I'll fall with the sky, and then I'll tell you the trip.
Felisa
i like that! a story! and falling" with".....
Yes, i would become a cloud to be like a blanket that covers all who were feeling cold and lonely....letting them have warmth and hope that even when the sky falls ....it doesn't matter ....because the cloud still can protect :)
yes of course :))
How could i? No sky means no clouds too.
i am remembering the children's story....was it chicken little who sat beneath a tree and an acorn fell on her head and so she thought the sky was falling?
if you became a cloud, maybe you could investigate and send me a message about the sky......you could send me raindrops.....instead of a message in a bottle, it would be a message in a raindrop.
I'd become a hole so the sky could fall into it safely. The Whole of the sky in the hole of me.
A story that a could would tell could be light or stormy depending on circumstances.
thank you for clarifying, l.l. that is what i thought you meant, but, due to this week's question, i did not want to assume i understood something that i did not.
and as you sent me stories in the raindrops, might you be also recreating how i regard the sky?
Clouds are only water that can't take the heat. If you told me that the sky was falling, I would wish to become a mountain so I could hold it up. But would I? Rarely is our courage tested to the point that we become mountains, as it is very easy to become a cloud.
mwb, as usual, i really like that your comment takes me to an image i would not have imagined on my own.
i am wondering if a mountain must exert energy to hold up the sky or if it can do so simply by being a mountain.
and also, does it take courage to float in the sky?
i have been listening to townes van zandt's "to live is to fly" (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2JGc2CvM0EQ)
there is a line in it "we've got the sky to talk about."
if the sky is falling, newness would replace what we often take for granted. maybe we could see the stars, even in the daytime. what would fall? the color blue? would the sky become green and the ground blue?
if you became a cloud, would you float on the ground?
Odd I was listening to "What condition my condition was in." where he tripped on a cloud and fell five miles high.
I just hope we aren't lonely clouds. Let's cover the sky like sheep even as it falls.
and from the sheep, would could spin wool to make blankets in which to curl up and watch the sky floating beneath us.
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