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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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12 comments:
If i do have a choice :)...being a cactus is a strong plant surviving in desert ...being a water lily is an elegant flower ...:)...
so which choice would it be...elegance or strength?
elegance with strength :)
ah.....
iwhen is elegance strength and when not?
Dancing in the rain, with a heart pure,and demure....although,with mud and water all over the body and legs....can we find any,in the recent "Sandy" in NYC ???
i suppose there is the choice as to whether to dance or not to. to dance in the devastation and loss or to try to hold on to what is gone.
as you say, we might not be dancing in an elegant costume, but the dance itself is strength and elegance even when it might not seem that way.
so, how do we hear the music?
Thinking about it now, sorry to have that picture of dancing in the rain, amist the devastation....guess the music came from the rain itself, thus it also means that the strength we have or the elegance we processed always developed from the worst situations in life ....true ???
So if I listen to the rain, I might hear the music. But if I see devastation, I have to look inside to see elegance..,,?
Yup :)...maybe elegance will be found in the most unexpected place ...where are lily being grown ???
in a pond of rainwater?
:)...and cactus ...in the blazing heat of the sun
a prickly kind of elegance....
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