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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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11 comments:
I will remember it as the present that help me to create the future perhaps by forgetting it ...it means that "for" the "getting"....of "things" and "people" of the future ...we learnt from the past ....well, for me alot of things in the past remains in my heart and mind ....nevertheless, i know that in letting go of the past, i will live a much happier present where it will again, become a past :)
s.a., very interesting how it is that we can create through forgetting...........
i wonder, if i am focused on the future, do i forget the present?
Maybe when you are focused on the future ....you will work happily and dilligently in the present ...Anne, what if the future does not promised you on the focus that you depend on, what would you do ??
i would say that my present is series of surprising events. thinking about the future does not seem to change that.
if i forget my past, will i create another one?
Isn't the forgetting of the past, the surprising present ??....haha ...thanks for the reminder of thinking of the future :)
The past won't let you forget it
R, then the past speaks to me in present tense?
Don't "pretense" (pretend) that the past don't speak ....haha :)...honour the past, treasure the present, and embrace the future :)...
very funny!
if i think of the past, am i seeing it through the lens of who i have become today?
That is how i "use" my past ....if there is nothing to honour about...then perhaps we can learn from it ...and the present will become a past ...that you put in your best efforts to make it wonderful....but ...we must take heart ....cos our focus on the future ...may not answer the way ...that we think we want it to be ....maybe it will be better, maybe worse ....but whatever it is ...we had lived thoroughly now :)
i like that s.a.: the concept of answering the way.......
perhaps our way is created through questions..........
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