Monika's weekly inner voice drawings:
Q: What is today's wisdom?
A: "Leap, and the net will appear."
- John Burroughs
"Rest in reason, move in passion."
- Khalil Gibran
"Don't part with your illusions. When they are gone, you may still exist, but you have ceased to live."
- Mark Twain
"Don't part with your illusions. When they are gone, you may still exist, but you have ceased to live."
- Mark Twain
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The experience of color is neither atomistic or discrete; nor are colors “secondary qualities” of experience. Color is subtle and lived and meaningful. It has sense-direction or intentionality and, as such, a function in the field of experience. In lived experience, color is “a way into things.” Color is emotional resonance but also a primary way in which we experience differentiation. The many hues of difference that influence our ordinary perception of self, other, and world. In their resistance to figuration colors seem to emerge from the depths of things and yet keep us swimming above those very depths in their differentiating function.
ReplyDeleteI mention color because this new drawing of Monika’s is dripping with color. And I wonder why? Initially, as I sit with it, it feels like too much, that is, too much separation for my need of intimacy. I like the flowing-into, the snugness of communion. And yet, this is the world leaping out of itself in spiking waves of manifestation and diversity. And here is the central figure, again, between two aspects of her journey of living experience: the triangular star-like horizontality of life uninterested in transformation and the turkey-like observer just watching self go by, without judgment. Yes, this drawing is very much of this world, rooted in and traipsing through it by the river and across the pier in one swoon of dance. I would (en)title this drawing `Manifestation’ for how, in its wisdom, affirms emptiness’s relationship to form and how emptiness itself, being empty, is not other than form. Colors, in their weird perceptual dance, are absolutely manifest and yet non-things. I guess like all phenomena. How lovely. Now, where is my blue guitar?
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ReplyDeleteI had started out, asking "what does 'congruence' look like?", following Clifford's suggestion from the "Balance" post. What emerged was not to my liking. I also thought that the color was almost overpowering and yet -true to the IVD form- I went with the flow and accepted what my "creative self" wanted to draw out.
ReplyDeleteWhat evolved was a multicolored harlequin, a jester like "The Fool" in the Tarot, full of trust and daring. And so this one dances and jumps ahead and - oh happy congruence - the pylons and the feet find each other and support his journey. As such it is an example for "Congruence" or "Congruency": we are supported when we at least expect it.
Amitofu :)
I think i relate more to your previous post of 7:18 :)
ReplyDeleteThere is that rebel talking :)
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