The Creative Languages

“It is through the creative languages that we learn who we are, where light shines upon the path of forward discovery and beauty shows itself lucent.”

The generosity of beauty and the creative mind forges new ways of thinking and experiencing life as we know it, cracking open the shell of who we’ve become. It is through the creative languages that we learn who we are, where light shines upon the path of forward discovery and beauty shows itself lucent. Through the creative languages we tell our stories, building bridges through the shadowy unknown. 

“To live with art is to know the truest self, finding refuge in the mirror created.”

Beauty pulls us from the hole of ego, showing us the vastness of life and our place within. Life affirming as it is salve, beauty echoes the mysteries of the intuitive self where logic has its limits. By mere proxy one discovers the inspiration of beauty by way of nature and the creative languages. To live with art is to know the truest self, finding refuge in the mirror created. Beauty, be it words or what the eye sees and the hand holds, goes beyond entertainment, it is the foundation of the structure of the self, as bone, blood and memory. 

“It can be truly said that a painting becomes our own once devoured, passing through body and mind as satiated consumption: sugar rush or coma.”

When one views a painting, what is seen is more than the image itself, we see the evidence of the maker, the brush strokes, decision making and preferences from their history of living. What is seen is the maker’s story and therefore our own, we see the seer and the depths of seeing: mind and emotion. Viewing a painting can be seen as reading ones own memoir, or a story that pulls us in and holds our attention, grazing the edges of the self. It can be truly said that a painting becomes our own once devoured, passing through body and mind as satiated consumption: sugar rush or coma. 

“It is through the creative languages our maps are drawn, guide posts set, beacons ablaze.” 

The history of the creative languages is our history, our present and the future, the telling of our hopes, dystopic narratives, desires and hatches of escape. The creative languages pull at the scab, then gives it a kiss to sooth the sting of living life. The beauty of the creative languages is their chameleon dexterities, showing many sides to the collective individual that sometimes knows not what it needs. It is through the creative languages our maps are drawn, guide posts set, beacons ablaze. 

Creating Beauty And Finding Meaning

“Through the creative languages we find our flow, what resonates deepest and illuminates the forward trail.”

The striving to do better and to be better is a process of discovery, a curiosity of finding what satiates the mind and body, regulating emotion during the ups and downs of living life. It is within this process of seeking that we learn who we are, matching thought and emotion with doing: creating beauty and finding meaning.

Through the creative languages we find our flow, what resonates deepest and illuminates the forward trail.

Rise And Fall

“We are mere mortals of energy, captives of our minds and clothed in emotions of needs and wants.”

Our determination, like our energy and hope, rises then falls as we move through moments of trial, times of troubles and dreams that echo the blackness of night. We rise as Maya Angelou once wrote and fall, as Icarus melting, our human spirit fears its limits and leans toward desire, turns Sunflower like to the golden light. We are mere mortals of energy, captives of our minds and clothed in emotions of needs and wants. We fall and rise to fall and rise, again: sunset, sunrise.

To be human is to know imperfection and will, to move within and beyond dogma, pulling possibilities for the future, forward. Being human, means knowing limits and embracing learning through repetition and time, through the rise of hope and the tug of intuition.  Centuries of our making are within our cells, colliding and culluding to transform who we are, deepening our relationship with the universe from which we came, creating both possibilities and problems.

There is no doubt to our rise of evolution, nor the possible fall to our knees to nature. We rise and fall with fear and hope, and the curiosity of a child that knows no limits. 


What Matters

“It is through times of hardships that we find who we are, where we see our strengths and better our weaknesses.”

In the thick of adversity, one finds what matters, what uplifts and brings us to a place of clarity that eases the way forward. This profundity sheds light upon our darkest times, allowing us to see through the fog of mind and emotion, smoothing the truths of reality so that we may best move on. It is through times of hardships that we find who we are, where we see our strengths and better our weaknesses. To be still within the midst of beauty, be it nature, words or the hand created, provides us with the deepest opportunities of respite and resolve: pulling deep the intuitive universe within. 

What matters is within our attention, despite the whirling that may surround us. What matters is what we feel that matters, what we hold onto and perpetuate in our minds and days of doing. This is not a difficult task, it is held within us, our ability to reason, to see beauty within the ugly, to try and start again. Within our difficulties are the truest pockets of beauty, if only we choose what matters in every moment that we’ve created, stepping back and merely seeing. To capture beauty in the moments that matter stills it to memory, creating fortitude for the long road ahead. 



Striving

“Through the creative languages we find our flow, what resonates deepest and illuminates the forward trail.” 

The striving to do better and to be better is a process of discovery, a curiosity of finding what satiates the mind and body, regulating emotion during the ups and downs of living life. It is within this process of seeking that we learn who we are, matching thought and emotion with doing: creating beauty and finding meaning. Through the creative languages we find our flow, what resonates deepest and illuminates the forward trail.

 

“We ought to try, by the example of our own lives, to prove that life is love and wonder and that that nation is doomed which penalizes those of its citizens who recognize and rejoice in this fact.”

James Baldwin