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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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13 comments:
that would be terrible!!!
If a bird is in its cage,do you think it has any sense of direction ??
if the cage were its world, would it not still have some sense of direction? would it not need a way to orient itself? how would it do that?
A bird in a cage maybe very sad ...guess that is why ....when it sings ...it maybe the sweetest amongst all....how it orient ??i dun know ...maybe it does not need to be orient at all??....is there a need to ??
perhaps the bird orients by noticing the direction in which the sun rises and sets.
hat would life be like without a sense of direction?
Without a direction...hmmm...hope the state of people would not be like a caged bird ....maybe it would be a good thing too ...since it orient itself with the direction of rise and set of sun :)
so do we each have personal "suns" ?
Yes we had ....Anne your sun rises from which side ??
it rises from the east. and yours?
but, if i am my own planet.......maybe i can rethink this and look for the sun in another direction.......
haha...mine rises behind a HDB flat(blocks of houses we live in singapore :)...HDB means Housing Development Board :)
so it seems that on this planet, the sun is always rising. always setting.
and if the cage is the bird's home, what happens if it leaves and the sun no longer rises in the same place outside the bars?
Then the bird needs to learn to build a nest :)
ahhh.a nest....a place of rest and safety....
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