Hello Dani.
How are you? I am OK. I finished my work for the WGA exhibition (see images). I made two pieces, one object and a (2 part) brooch, based on reflection and phoenix respectively. I wasn’t sure if I could do this and as silly as I think this sounds (because of my work block) I am happy and relieved that I could add ‘something’ to this whole international-creative-amalgamation. Sometimes it is not so easy to do simple things.
On another note, I am currently collecting shadows, or rather ‘my’ shadows. It is a process in which you take things that annoy/irritate/upset you about others and you see where in your own life you have exhibited these characteristics or done ‘this’ to someone else. After looking at this, you see the gift in doing this (and as negative as something may appear to us on the surface, there is always a golden nugget hiding in there somewhere because we always seem to do the best we can at any one time. Reminds me of your charcoal/gold piece!). This whole process is based on the idea that we project our negative aspects, the shadows, onto the world (like a mirror) so we can see what we need to see and reclaim parts of ourselves. Interesting process and this has now become part of my journey to become whole again.
I also read a beautiful quote:
Perfect love is to feeling what perfect white is to color. Many think that white is the absence of color. It is not. It is the inclusion of all color. White is every other color that exists, combined. So, too, is love not the absence of an emotion (hatred, anger, lust, jealousy, covetousness), but the summation of all feeling. It is the sum total. The aggregate amount. The everything.
- Neale Donald Walsh
I love white and this has probably been the colour I have used the most in all of my work (and even now, as you can see)…..
Have a nice weekend….B Y E
