I really do, it is meant to be a dress, and I am short so it all works out, right? Oh Cyberspace, long time no write. In the last couple of days (or weeks, almost a month...) I have developed some musical obsessions such as Jorge Drexler and Jarabe de Palo. Beautiful lyrics, melody what more can one's ears expect? I also learned a bit, a very tiny bit of numerology. And painted. Painting is my favorite thing to do in life.And sculpture feels a tad forced at the moment, sadly...
Sometimes I like to think that I had a gnome that loves to clean I know its one of my room mates but it is so wonderful as it is, I can leave in the morning a decent kitchen and come back and find this fantastic and lovely looking counter top, who know there was that much space? Only Jenny. Thanks dear Gnome/Jenny, I will most definitely be baking you cookies.
Today I began a new painting, a still life in a box and I decided to give myself green shock therapy. While I am painting only one color is my enemy. Green. I cannot begin to understand why but using green is extremely difficult for me so I decided that the best way to get over this is to paint with it, lots and lots and lots of it. So I decided that it was better to dive in, I am doing green silk with dark green patterns, good luck Pam!
to be continued...
Tuesday, March 27, 2012
Saturday, March 10, 2012
It's a Bob Dylan Kind of Morning....
I am singing, or rather yelling to Bob Dylan, it is a Dylan kind of morning. My long time friend procrastination has stopped by for a visit, hopefully a short one this time. "You are invisible now you got no secret to conceal!..." I wish I had not left my harmonica in the dorm, I feel very, very, very much like playing it now. Like other times when my pal procrastination paused in my path I am quite productive in other things, I have read two scripts, the beginning of a book, and more than half of Zlata's Diary. "No,no,no it ain't me you are looking for...." I have always thought this is a beautiful falling out or breaking up song. Since I got my fear assignment (to make a drawing representing fear) I can;t stop thinking about what I am afraid of, and it always runs along the same lines, fear of mindless contentment, of being out of touch, unaware, oblivious to life itself! In my opinion people should be passionate about something, about what they do, what they believe in, never just remain in a situation, the fact that people do sink into contentment is my fear. In order to appreciate the magic of life we must face it, realize that is is happening, I leave you cyberspace with a quote by one of my favorite living authors.
"Imagine that you were on the threshold of this fairytale, sometime billions of years ago when everything was created. And you were able to choose whether you wanted to be born to a life on this planet at some point. You wouldn’t know when you were going to be born, nor how long you’d live for, but at any event it wouldn’t be more than a few years. All you’d know was that, if you chose to come into the world at some point, you’d also have to leave it again one day and go away from everything. This might cause you a good deal of grief, as lots of people think that life in the great fairytale is so wonderful that the mere thought of it ending can bring tears to their eyes. Things can be so nice here that it’s terribly painful to think that at some point the days will run out. What would you have chosen, if there had been some higher power that had gave you the choice? Perhaps we can imagine some sort of cosmic fairy in this great, strange fairytale. What you have chosen to live a life on earth at some point, whether short or long, in a hundred thousand or a hundred million years? Or would you have refused to join in the game because you didn’t like the rules? (…) I asked myself the same question maybe times during the past few weeks. Would I have elected to live a life on earth in the firm knowledge that I’d suddenly be torn away from it, and perhaps in the middle of intoxicating happiness? (…) Well, I wasn’t sure what I would have chosen. (…) If I’d chosen never to the foot inside the great fairytale, I’d never have known what I’ve lost. Do you see what I’m getting at? Sometimes it’s worse for us human beings to lose something dear to us than never to have had it at all."
-Jostein Gaarder, The Orange Girl
Huge quote but it's a fantastic one. The fact that I am here at this moment, that my soul manifested in this time period and that I am aware of this fact marvels me always. So, I am sharing my musings with you cyberspace.
"Imagine that you were on the threshold of this fairytale, sometime billions of years ago when everything was created. And you were able to choose whether you wanted to be born to a life on this planet at some point. You wouldn’t know when you were going to be born, nor how long you’d live for, but at any event it wouldn’t be more than a few years. All you’d know was that, if you chose to come into the world at some point, you’d also have to leave it again one day and go away from everything. This might cause you a good deal of grief, as lots of people think that life in the great fairytale is so wonderful that the mere thought of it ending can bring tears to their eyes. Things can be so nice here that it’s terribly painful to think that at some point the days will run out. What would you have chosen, if there had been some higher power that had gave you the choice? Perhaps we can imagine some sort of cosmic fairy in this great, strange fairytale. What you have chosen to live a life on earth at some point, whether short or long, in a hundred thousand or a hundred million years? Or would you have refused to join in the game because you didn’t like the rules? (…) I asked myself the same question maybe times during the past few weeks. Would I have elected to live a life on earth in the firm knowledge that I’d suddenly be torn away from it, and perhaps in the middle of intoxicating happiness? (…) Well, I wasn’t sure what I would have chosen. (…) If I’d chosen never to the foot inside the great fairytale, I’d never have known what I’ve lost. Do you see what I’m getting at? Sometimes it’s worse for us human beings to lose something dear to us than never to have had it at all."
-Jostein Gaarder, The Orange Girl
Huge quote but it's a fantastic one. The fact that I am here at this moment, that my soul manifested in this time period and that I am aware of this fact marvels me always. So, I am sharing my musings with you cyberspace.
Friday, March 9, 2012
A Soul in Kilter After Reading a Script...
I feel so much love towards the world at the moment, a strange feeling for me lately. Maybe that old adage is true, after the tempest comes the calm (although I could am reluctant to use the word "calm" itself, perhaps sense, love, endearment?). I was browsing my bookshelves in search of something to read, I didn't quite want to jump into Plato yet... I grabbed two books, one is Brida by Paulo Coelho which I read a few years ago, the other the script for Before Sunrise, one of my favorite movies. I ordered it a long, long time ago but never read it, now seemed like the appropriate time. I just finished and it left me feeling this deep, warmth... a mixture of love, melancholy, and marvel towards life itself. The story is about a chance encounter that meant much more.
I am thinking of how much I have changed through life, religious points of view, political thoughts, but three things have always remained, Art, Travel, and Souls. All life long these have stayed the same. I believe in souls, in soul mates as well. Finishing this script threw me into this nebulae of thoughts. I have been pondering on chances, the path that I chose and where the path that I didn't take might have led me...I love chance encounters that end up making an impact on people's lives. I guess the script I just read felt so close because as I read it I could empathize, analyzing a life but sometimes being detached is something I feel sometime and fear as well. But this same fear is the reason that connecting with people brings me such joy...
Soul mates seem to be the reoccurring theme of my day, I am half certain I was discussing them in my dream, this was the overall impressing the script left me, and it is the way Brida begins. I feel like there is this beautiful chaos for me to discover...
I am thinking of how much I have changed through life, religious points of view, political thoughts, but three things have always remained, Art, Travel, and Souls. All life long these have stayed the same. I believe in souls, in soul mates as well. Finishing this script threw me into this nebulae of thoughts. I have been pondering on chances, the path that I chose and where the path that I didn't take might have led me...I love chance encounters that end up making an impact on people's lives. I guess the script I just read felt so close because as I read it I could empathize, analyzing a life but sometimes being detached is something I feel sometime and fear as well. But this same fear is the reason that connecting with people brings me such joy...
Soul mates seem to be the reoccurring theme of my day, I am half certain I was discussing them in my dream, this was the overall impressing the script left me, and it is the way Brida begins. I feel like there is this beautiful chaos for me to discover...
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