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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:
Too mundane.
No. 12 string open tuning.
I hope....
you are right, rw. it would be too mundane. so what would i dream of if i were a guitar?
12 string open tuning. Leo Kottke's fingers. Stuff like that.
I hope...
i am new to the world of guitars so am very glad to know about leo kottke. sounds like something i would be interested in. thanks!
since the guitar is made of wood, would it dream of the forest?
That's the difference between resource and product. Does a strip of leather dream of a cow? Probably the answer is in there.
maybe the tree dreams of being a guitar.
that is an important distinction....resource and product.
then does the guitar dream of someone to play it?
if you were a guitar you would be a beautiful musical...with all your moves and actions and emotions you would be stringing different notes which well...will create a symphony..
so even when you are "dreaming" about lyrics..you probably have finished a song...
BH
If it's up to the Tao the guitar is only there for it's function. So it wouldn't dream of someone to play it, it would merely wait for someone to play it.
bh, i love this! maybe rather than dreaming of the symphony, if i were a guitar, i would be hearing the symphony before it was written.....
probably...sound will travel faster..yet thought seems to come faster on our mind..but dreaming might take time...
and regarding the forest, trees and guitar wishes..I believe we all wish for something in life..most importantly to be appreciated...
I guess the tree wants that, the forest wants that..and the guitar wants that..
BH
so, rw, if the guitar is only there for its function, am i only here for my function?
is to be appreciated, bh, to be validated?
probably...
I mean we all feel the need to be recognized..no man is truly "i don't care if others don't notice me"..I guess we all want to be noticed and appreciated in all honesty...
BH
once a resource becomes a product, it should dream of being refined. or in the case of the Tao, wait to be refined, or mined. there's always somewhere else you can go and, until death, it's never backwards.
maybe a strip of leather dreams of being a guitar strap.
but how do you refine a guitar? maybe a classic guitar dreams of being electric and an electric guitar dreams of being acoustic.
for another person to hear our song......that is a gift....
sir, thank you for adding the word "refined".....that changes things. and i suppose refined is relative.....
how do you define the word, by the way?
When I think of "refine" i think of extraction of traits, at the expense of other traits. This fundamentally alters the original composition of the substance. however once something is refined, it becomes a new, original entity, it's past is gone.
the process can be man made, or natural
heroin can never be morphine
diamonds can never be coal.
The benefits or costs are set and determined by every individual and are unique....
On a tangent, refine is different than reform: reform offers no extraction and is more akin to molding clay. It's whatever you want it to be, until it breaks. which is why many reformed criminals find themselves in jail, they're being molded the wrong way.
I would call someone with Elizabethan manners reformed, not refined.
How do you define refine?
no, you will dream of chords. guitars can't speak.
miranda, what would a cord represent?
sir, interesting distinction between refined and reformed. i would say that to reform is to become more like a standard. to use your analogy, to mold one's clay into an image more consistent with the norm. on the other hand, i guess i could reform myself using my own internal standards.
as for refined, my initial response is that it is smoothness.....no sharp edges. a gentleness since there is no need to fight. lack of "noise". letting go of what is not essential and expressing what remains without the ego looking for commendation. if i refine my thought.....which clearly i have not done here....i would reply with few words that expressed my response in a way much better than i am doing now....i must reform.......
As guitar will feel the mood of the player and will share those moments of intimacy, you and the guitar player might make dream the rest with the music its coming out of you both!
you would dream of tunes from the past and the future!
A guitar can speak in gifted hands.
Lazarus lupin
and it can be a journey for the hands to transcend the mind in order to touch the strings.....
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