Monika's weekly inner voice drawings:
Q: What is today's wisdom?
A: "Happiness always looks small while you hold it in your hands, but let it go, and you learn at once how big and precious it is."
- Maxim Gorky
"Nothing can bring you happiness but yourself."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Space and time are two constructs of consciousness that I am particularly preoccupied with (notice the root, occupy!). I sit with and meditate on them for both hold the key to understanding virtually and literally all things, and wonder. This drawing, for example, merely in the glancing and gazing of its two figures, asks us to move with it in time through the space of their looking. And it is in the looking that we find relationship and intimacy (Monika’s figures are always intimate) and the story of their relationship. There is a coaxing, and entreaty even, to touch and be touched so that something surprising and good will occur. Notice the tension between that only time and space together can create. The dog-like figure is stretching away as his curious and playful glance is moving towards. And the loving and warm sister-angel with her comfort cape is gazing down from above, as if to promise him something higher in her love. She is partially invisible because love is, as is the happiness that nourishes that love. There is always a hand present, for the hand soothes as well as points and guides (in prayer it points and shows).
ReplyDeleteAnd now she is ready to speak in this sacred space and at this present time called love. She says to her friend, "Happiness always looks small while you hold it in your hands, but let it go, and you learn at once how big and precious it is." He smiles and responds, “I know. I have let it go in my longing so long ago. And now it is everywhere, all the time.”
What a great interpretation! I just draw it, but you happen to find more meaning in it than is obvious to me.
ReplyDeleteI love the "comfort cape". It sounds like something that should be available on an Etsy Store :)
I first saw the "dog" as the one with the wisdom while the other figure looked more lost to me, but your view on it makes more sense to me now. Of course, "truth" can appear in more ways than one :)