Mood

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Carl Barnett Design/Studio

Deeper moods draw us into a space much like lower notes in a song, pulling us by emotion and cues of memory, wrapping us up in a cloak of sensations. It knows just the right chords to hit and when.





Playing hard to get it toys, beckons and then slowly devours as we sink deep into its nuanced color and tone.


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Carl Barnett Design/Studio

Once having its way, it releases slowly, pheromones recess as the heart rate stables. It never takes no for an answer, but never needs to ask, willing bodies we quickly become. If it had a scent we would be intoxicated. Awash.

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Carl Barnett Design/Studio

Blue-black is my favorite addiction. My favorite deepest dive.

Calming as it is enticing, its contradictions hold us in its gaze. Taps into our deepest dialogue, cradles as we sink deeper, deepest.

This is not a mood of fancy but one of strong embrace, firm handshake, direct eye contact.

Blue-black knows us well, kin to all our inner histories. Deepest calm.

Comfort

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Carl Barnett Design/Studio

It is not luxury that I find to be of longevity and benefit, but comfort, this seems to me to be the most needed, what traverses the body and sits deeper in the belly and mind. This is what counters the contemporary grit, softens even the hardest edges of doubt and worry.

Comfort, at the risk of being dismissed as a romantic, is the longest and deepest embrace. The thread that binds the senses, ties the mind to deeper meaning and calms the inner rattle. Here within comfort, within the embrace is where possibility is inspired.

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(Comfort Me)

Comfort me from wherever you are—

alone, we are quickly worn out;

if I place my head on the road,

let it seem softened by you.

Could it be that even from afar

we offer each other a gentle breath,

and that pure regret of absence

covers these stones with down?

~Rainer Maria Rilke

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Carl Barnett Design/Studio

Comfort is not dismissed as trend but welcomed and held forever in the body. It is memory based, fueled by the tactile and woven by the story teller mind. It is book of pages, words of meaning, watercolor images that float in the imagination. It is all this and more, layered by the individual beneficiary.

History is attached to the realm of comfort since day one of birth as we are swaddled, nestled in the bosom and cradled in comforting arms. This is what spurs the ideal, coded genetics and written memory, the routines of time and attachment. Rituals of daily life passing.

Comfort is what we make it, what words we choose to describe. It is not merely in the eye of the beholder, but in the hand of the user.

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Carl Barnett Design/Studio

Resolve

Time and life seem to move at their own whim and pace, gently nudging us forward or tossing as a speck of sand in tumbling deep waters.

Carl Barnett Design/Studio

Carl Barnett Design/Studio

How we live can be the balance necessary, the resolve to the random and chaotic. Mental muse to the whirling dervish of contemporary life.

We have the means to buffer, to inspire our own doing and to create the change we wish to see. This is within our mindset and our living. Beauty as match, life as kindling.

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Carl Barnett Design/Studio

Time and life are aggressive ring masters, worthy opponents.