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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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8 comments:
No, you will not become rain...but you touched the clouds ...so the clouds become rain falling down, tears that fall down from the sky .....if the rain stopped, could i touched the rainbow ??
No. High.
so, s.a., if i touch the clouds, they cannot remain the same. which i wonder.....does that apply to people, also?
if i touch you, make a connection with you, are we both not changed?
rw.......there is the image of touching the sky in "purple rain"......but clouds are lower so the rain might be another color......
and the cloud could be fog, swirling around my feet.......
but then high above me would be the unseen sky....and no cloud to take me there.
and then if we were mountain climbing and had shorts on and the whole bit... hats with little feathers... and we were tethered to one another and we climbed so high we were above the clouds and you looked down and said "wow, that cloud looks like a glacier field we could walk on" and I said "yeah but it's a cloud" and you said "no because perception is reality" and took a step off the mountain to walk on it you'd fall and take me with you.
then where would we be? Nice going!
but halfway down, i would remember that my hat had feathers on it. and so, holding the feather high in the air, i would see the wing from which it came and soar high into the sky.
if we were still tethered together, it would be up to you whether or not you untied the knot connecting us. or i suppose you might remove your hat, only to find a feather flapping in the wind. a feather just wanting to fly free.
Every touch will always warm up something!
Rain will be the love result of Hot and Cold
i wonder how the cloud would feel about the resulting rain.
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