Living

“Our ways of living are intuitive, brought from the gut and our traditions of history.”

Within an architectural building are spaces divided, filled with objects layered with memories, some of utility and others of pure beauty. It is here in these cubed spaces we build our lives, defined by language and deepened by emotion. Our ways of living are intuitive, brought from the gut and our traditions of history. When we are mindful, we know what brings us joy and expand upon it, smoothing our passing forward. Life is difficult, our time here, finite, to create change and beauty as life allows builds lasting results for generations to come. 

“Each deed, each thing we create can offer up clarity to who we are and wish to become.”

From a perspective of philosophy it would make sense to surround ourselves with the inspirations of beauty, nature and those we choose to love, building resilience to the difficulties that come. From the perspective of fact, what we think about we bring about, what we do we reap. The future holds what we give it, what we build now. Time waits for nothing and no one, therefore our day to day actions are paramount in digging our paths forward. It’s not about perfection, but the dexterity of thought and doing, what brings us upward and forward, us, we and them. Each deed, each thing we create can offer up clarity to who we are and wish to become. Every painting is a mirror and window, as is every book, each vote and painful wrong doing, offering up opportunities to see, prisms of who we are: magnification and light. This is life, how we surround ourselves is key, garbage in, garbage out. 

Creation

“Each creative arena offers salvation and solution if only we pause to see, pause and digest what’s before us and around.”

Beginnings always hide themselves in endings, but one has to begin within, to begin again. To find focus often we have to eliminate the noise, not just in our head, but what’s around us, the visual and physical clutter and clatter: setting things in order that we may find our way again. The visual languages, all, have a way of guiding us to where we wish to be, they inspire and uplift as they shine a light forward. Each creative arena offers salvation and solution if only we pause to see, pause and digest what’s before us. We have very little control outside who we are, the solution then is to build a better boat, a natural resilience to disorder: surrounding oneself with all that eases and inspires. 

Architecture is not mere container, it goes beyond utility into the physicality of the body and the emotions within. It speaks to and enhances our being human, down to the core of our well being, our intuition. This applies also to what we collect, how we fill our spaces and even time, what distracts and uplifts: utility and desire. If its true, what we think about we attract, then also true is what we surround ourselves with expands that attraction: like for like, same for same. Our physical world assists in manifesting our inner world, the good, the bad and the ugly. Beauty then, in all its complexities and creative arenas, is the language of self expression. 

“The love to create may be the deepest of emotions, as it pulls and is driven by, all that we are.”

Being human in its essence, is based in creativity and love, living is based in needs, wants and the desires that creativity and love push, deep from the belly of who we are. All that is created is manifested through love, how we work, what we make and our relationships. Creativity and love have no biases, they follow the mind and the individuals bent, the love to have may feel opposite to the love to give, or the love for the same or opposite gender. The love to create may be the deepest of emotions, as it pulls and is driven by, all that we are. But to create love has the broadest and deepest path, with time as its ally forward. To create is instinctual, our resolve and our remaking, the means forward to a clearer way.

“The love to create may be the deepest of emotions, as it pulls and is driven by, all that we are.”

Choice Of Simplicity

“There is a forgotten simplicity that we unwittingly left behind, forsaken for the hopes of the new, complex and the quick.”

Naming clouds and their shapes are a forgotten favorite, left to childhood pastimes and memories of a slower and simpler time, or seemingly so then. There is a forgotten simplicity that we unwittingly left behind, forsaken for the hopes of the new, complex and the quick. We know of what we’ve lost, its residue is still upon our lips, now only spoken of fondly as if unretrievable, as if because time moves forward we cannot look to the past, salvaging what we need. 

“Life is difficult why add more, is a question I often ask.”

Simplicity and silence can be found within pockets of our day to day activities, or created within our homes by way of space and visual fine tuning. If we seek it out, it can be found, it starts within the need: editing and most likely, subtracting. It is said that we already have what we need, that we are each, enough, the rest perhaps then is refinement, a balancing of inside and outside. Life is difficult why add more, is a question I often ask. The world is complex because we’ve become complex, the Earth is ill because we are. Why add more, why not less? Less of everything we’ve amassed so far. This is not to suggest we live a monastic life, though these days that sounds appealing, it is merely a matter of looking at needs and wants, and deciding what simplifies and what does not. Our lives are difficult, why not less, why not add the simplicity that is needed.

“Take a moment and look at nature, how it changes and grows, a flower does not try to bloom, it just blooms.”

Take a moment and look at nature, how it changes and grows, a flower does not try to bloom, it just blooms. Perhaps we are trying too hard, trying to beat the system, rather than attuning to ourselves and listening to our intuition: narrowing our focus on what brings us joy. At the risk of being maudlin, the sound you hear is time ticking, life like nature waits for no one.

“Simplicity can be created, as too a future of possibility, it all begins here with each of us, simply, with mind and eyes open.”

Simplicity within an era of the complex and uncertainty may seem at odds, but its possible through mindset and intention. Control lies within each of us, how we think and behave, how we treat ourselves and others, surrounding ourselves with art, good design and natural beauty. Simplicity can be created, as too a future of possibility, it all begins here with each of us, simply, with mind and eyes open. The more simplified the mind and living, the clearer the vision forward, the better we can see the facts before us and how we choose to react. Simplicity then, is merely a tactic of living our lives better, to do better and to be better, mind and body, hope and will. 

“Simplicity is in the mind and in the hand, therefor we have the choice of what that means and what that truly looks like.” 

Creating simplicity is not about a style or trend, it is a matter of living a fulfilling life, not perfect but full, full of clarity, meaning and purpose and seeing that for all it is, our lives fleeting, tangled within the lives of others. Simplicity is in the mind and in the hand, therefor we have the choice of what that means and what that truly looks like. 

Natural Creation

“This is how our lives are created, in and around our natural world, for us and through us, through the ebb and flows, growth and decay, seasons of mood.” 

The influence of nature over all we create is profound, sometimes obvious, often subtle, floating up from our subconscious mind and deepest intuition. We create from which we are born, that which encompasses our DNA, filtering through our pores and escaping through our nightly dreams. All that we create is somewhat autobiographic, what we see and experience is a part of us as we consume and then expel. What we think about we bring about, what we see we eventually reproduce in how we live, moving from day to day consuming and creating. This is how our lives are created, in and around our natural world, for us and through us, through the ebb and flows, growth and decay, seasons of mood. 

A Rising Tide Raises All Boats

“We live in difficult times and seek out the opposite, the calm within the storm, solace within our homes.”

We live in difficult times and seek out the opposite, the calm within the storm, solace within our homes. It seems as though we have little control, except for our selves and how we live, what we surround ourselves with, and whom. 

Their is respite to be found in beauty, and resolve within the creative mind and community: will within the hands that help, hope within the hearts of each.

“A rising tide, raises all boats.”