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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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Shoes is to protect your feet from being hurt by the roughness of roads ....it would not help finding your way home ....Anne, what do you think will help you find the direction back to home ??Perhaps buying a new pair of shoes let you have the confidence and assurance that in the long journey way home ....you are safe and be able to reach home with nice feet ...intact and strong :)....
if you wandered in to a unique shop, may be
I will wander n search for Fairy God Mother n Pumpkin! :)
May be the Magical Shoes :)
http://mycupppaaacofffeee.blogspot.com/
magic shoes would help or a fairy god mother, might as well.
looking for new shoes could take me into a unique shop which would have shoes especially suited to finding my home.
if i were lost and home was something i just could not find, maybe if i started over again with new shoes, my feet might experience a new way to step and i might see signposts i had missed before.
and new shoes just might protect me from being hurt, from the roughness all around and i might feel all the stronger for them.........
Would buying a new pair of shoes mean it would lead you to a new home?
Sometimes, we struggle with remnants of the past and try to fix things but maybe we should just let that all go and start a fresh!
www.whowritesanymore.blogspot.com
if i am lost, i wonder if instead of looking for a new way, if i don't focus on something else less difficult........like a new pair of shoes.........
it will be my same feet walking along but somehow, looking at them in new shoes, i might convince myself that i am not like the former scuffed up shoes of my journey but ones that look bright and shiny and have no wear and tear.
what do i throw away? what do i blame when i cannot find my way? and if so, where does that take me?
Does old shoes had only one way, being thhrow away?? Maybe ...you can blame the fog for blinding you up for the way ...or perhaps the wrong signpost that directs with a wrong direction....Do you think the way back home ...is the destination (as in the comfortable feeling of familiarity) or is becos along the way home...you meet the people, the scenery etc that the shoes steadily helps you along the way to find ?? Do you then thank the shoes for that ??
ah, if i thank the shoes for being my traveling companions, i might no longer feel that are old and useless.
they would seem familiar, just like the home i am trying to reach.
what do we do when our worlds no longer seem familiar?
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