Kaleidoscopic Possibilities

“We are in the middle of so much challenge, uncertainty and even pain, what is in our control is the parameter for change and solace.”

We have the potential, each, to create the possibilities of change. From the darkness of yesterday comes the light of tomorrow if we so choose, if we keep moving, editing and asking questions. From the spiral down, comes the spiral up.

How we choose to work and live is paramount. What we bring to each arena, each table can spin the spiral up or further down. We don’t have control over everything, sometimes knowing this can make a big difference, simplifying the tasks before us, where we work, our homes and the future. We are in the middle of so much challenge, uncertainty and even pain, what is in our control is the parameter for change and solace.

“To live within the potential of beauty and possibility vacillates the future possible, giving rise to our potential and those around us.” 

To be better is to live better, acknowledging our perfectly imperfect selves and the lives we wish to create. To surround oneself with beauty and all that inspires speaks to personal control and possibility, shining a light on the depths of who we are and all that we offer. To live within the potential of beauty and possibility vacillates the future possible, giving rise to our potential and those around us.

Essentially, what we bring to our lives is multifaceted, be it beauty, insight or knowledge: possibility in a kaleidoscope of colors. 

"There are thousands of people out there with the same degree you have; when you get a job, there will be thousands of people doing what you want to do for a living. But you are the only person alive who has sole custody of your life. Your particular life. Your entire life. Not just your life at a desk, or your life on the bus, or in the car, or at the computer. Not just the life of your mind, but the life of your heart. Not just your bank account, but your soul.

People don’t talk about the soul very much anymore. It’s so much easier to write a résumé than to craft a spirit. But a résumé is cold comfort on a winter night, or when you’re sad, or broke, or lonely, or when you’ve gotten back the chest X ray and it doesn’t look so good, or when the doctor writes “prognosis, poor.”

... You cannot be really first-rate at your work if your work is all you are."

Anna Quindlen 

 

Trees

“We are reliant upon their existence, share oxygen and our love towards the sun, moon and stars.”

We learn a great deal from trees with their network of roots, limbs that stretch and sway to the changing winds. Majestic in their stance they are grounded in their being, ask of nothing and listen well. We are reliant upon their existence, share oxygen and our love towards the sun, moon and stars. They are our responsibility as they are our keepers, part of us as we are part of them. There should be no question to their sustainability, we need them more than they need us.

“For me, trees have always been the most penetrating preachers. I revere them when they live in tribes and families, in forests and groves. And even more I revere them when they stand alone. They are like lonely persons. Not like hermits who have stolen away out of some weakness, but like great, solitary men, like Beethoven and Nietzsche.”

Hermann Hesse

The Object And Creation

“To fully understand who we are, we should look at our need for things, our dependency on the expressive languages that create our surroundings.”

An object speaks for the inner self that cannot voice its identity and expresses where words cannot fully define. It is both the mirror and the reflection, physical manifestation of the ephemeral and the capricious: map and bread crumb. Beyond the object is the space that contains it, manifesting itself as story book, archive to the lives we lead. 

To fully understand who we are, we should look at our need for things, our dependency on the expressive languages that create our surroundings. We live in a material world for a reason, the things we collect give form to our inner hopes and desires, contouring our inner fears, softening the blows of life and living.

“Form can follow function, but it is the beauty of the form that stays with us, subconsciously sitting in the belly of our desires.”

 

Beauty can be subversive, it has a power over us, we love a sensuous line, a wild flower in a field with it’s scent lofting, pulling us to a better place. The physical touch of an object of beauty teleports, reminding us of our history or slowing the pace of the mind. The outside speaks to the inside, whether it’s by seeing or by touch. This can be found in the grandeur of cathedrals, to the ceramic bowl and spoon. There is a connection between the physical and emotional that cannot be denied, nor should be ignored as design has its place in our everyday. Form can follow function, but it is the beauty of the form that stays with us, subconsciously sitting in the belly of our desires. 

“This is us making sense of a world that rarely does.”

As history has shown us, we have a propensity towards self expression, telling stories by way of images and things, spaces and words. This is us making sense of a world that rarely does. A world within, and without. The expressive languages are our tools of communication, digging deeper to who we believe we are, sifting to discover and explain, resolve and sooth. One merely has to look at the shards of history to see this need. We have created vessels, talismans and cities, etched with stories, images of life once enjoyed and endured. Look at an African fertility figure, the Venus of Willendorf  or any historical vessel, and one understands intuitively, as our history of expression runs deep in the blood. 

“To create is an expressive language that often digs deep, uplifts and shines a light on the complexities and beauty of life and what it means to live.”

Self expression is innate, creativity within all, this is how we are born but not necessarily how we are raised. Regardless of our creative abilities we all possess the desire, we know beauty when we see it, we feel it within, crave its physical touch. To create is to manifest an inner longing, a universal question or emotion, giving weight and order to the capricious mind and body. It is a means to smooth the edges or to sharpen for the purpose of clarity. To create is an expressive language that often digs deep, uplifts and shines a light on the complexities and beauty of life and what it means to live.

“We are in an era of great challenge, sorrow and change, where the facade of history is crumbling and energies explode as fireworks.”

We are in an era of great challenge, sorrow and change, where the facade of history is crumbling and energies explode as fireworks. The future manifests itself through creativity, physical actions, deeds and words. This is nothing new, as we continue to express our physical wants and emotional needs, all tied together by our shared humanity, intimacy and creative visions: forming the vessel that holds tomorrow. 

To Create Is To Manifest

“To create is an expressive language that often digs deep, uplifts and shines a light on the complexities and beauty of life and what it means to live.”

To create is to manifest an inner longing, a universal question or emotion, giving weight and order to the capricious mind and body. It is a means to smooth the edges or to sharpen for the purpose of clarity. To create is an expressive language that often digs deep, uplifts and shines a light on the complexities and beauty of life and what it means to live.

"A musician must make music, an artist must paint, a poet must write, if he is to be ultimately at peace with himself. What a man can be, he must be”

Abraham Maslow