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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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haha...if i were a bird, would i think fish fly through the waters??.....fish and birds are different animals ...with different make up....perhaps they do wonder is it the same as they travel around, perhaps they do not know that the other animals do exist ....perhaps they will never get to know each other worlds ...becos there is no opportunities to :)
well, in a way, don't they? it's really not all that different when you think about it, just the substance they are travelling in.
Miranda<3
so, is it about what is familiar? if i swim, i might think a bird would. that there are times when i don't conceive of difference.
or is there a difference and the only way we have to describe it is to use terms that apply only to us?
:)...we are all created things ...English are created language too...thus ....terms are created too....perhaps because of this "uniqueness"....there is a variety ...a lot of choices ...but as a whole it boils down how you use the differences,how you becos of your percepts of life ...accept that differences ....thus able to construct that "vabraincy"...haiz poor spelling again :)
Creative spelling, s.a.!
So I am wondering if I look at my own self with new eyes, what I would see?
Maybe I would see myself swimming down a busy street or flying through the grocery store....
Huh...street got so many people ?? and why fly through the grocery store....is it that there are too many people...and no place for animals .... and everyone of us are rushing for time ....thus need to fly instead of stroll ??
let's see........how to be clearer...........we were talking about how we see things through the lense of what is familiar to us. so a fish might think that birds swim since flying would be unfamiliar.
then i questioned what it would be like to see things from an unfamiliar, new viewpoint. i do wonder what it would be like to imagine flying around the grocery store isles...would it make the trip more fun? i would be taking a vacation from seeing things in the usual way. of course, i would know that i was just imagining it......so far, i can't figure out how to fly anywhere without a plane........including a grocery stores!
Maybe we have different ...things in our minds ....becos i was just thinking ....is it that the cities had sprung up lots ...and there are no place for the animals ....and the people had lost their time in cities that they go about "flying"....which i think should not be :)
So maybe, animals and people living in the unnaturalness of cities begin to lose what comes natural to them...
So instead of the concept of survival of the fittest, it might be survival of the strangest?
Being the strangest ...does it mean you are also the fittest....becos being strange means that your brain is full of "nonsenses" to carry you through life ...no matter how tough and rough the environment is :)....haha ....
Ah, yes, I am in favor of what appears to be nonsense.
It is a vehicle for traveling where swimming and flying cannot take me....
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