Monika's weekly inner voice drawings:
Q: What is today's wisdom?
A: "I know well what I am fleeing from but not what I am in search of."
- Michel de Montaigne
"If you do not get it from yourself,
Where will you go for it?"
- Zen saying
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This is a very compelling drawing in its simple complexity. There is some tension between these two figures (which feels more like the larger figure’s conflict), the smaller (and greener) of which seems to be playfully ducking from a punch. The green figure has this lovely transparent garment, which recalls for me the transparency of wisdom. I love the serenity of his eyebrows and his pointing, as if, like the Zen parable, he is pointing to the moon. From this interpretation, the quotes feel just perfect. Though I would argue that most of us have no idea what we’re fleeing from, I would certainly agree that we lack even less clarity regarding what we are searching for. And the second quote seems to be answering the first – much like the green figure is trying to convey to the brown figure—cultivate self-awareness. For, as another Buddha, Jesus once said, “if you do not draw forth what is within, what is within will destroy you. If you draw for the what is within, what is within will save you.”
ReplyDeleteI love, how you interpret the drawings tension between the figures. In this drawing I was reminded of the sturdiness of an old tree trunk vs. the lightness of a young flower that bends and moves with the wind. So, the tree "knows" that there is nowhere else to go in search of its inner core but staying within, while the flower is too young to know. And we are all flowers - so far :)
ReplyDeleteI couldn't help but to associate the green figure with the Tarot's "Fool," the wise wanderer of wisdom. I love that fool. The choreography between them is also so organically attuned as if to ensure the inseparability of conventional and ultimate realities, what they both in their shifting point to :)
ReplyDeleteThat's a good one. The Fool is also my favorite Tarot card. I don't think of the fool as being wise - yet, but see him more as an innocent, childlike wanderer that learns discernment through experience, and becomes wise in the process.
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