Thursday, March 11, 2010

Tis the season of Lent

I've registered with Christine to do an online class about the season of Lent. Although the class will really only start 2 weeks after and last till Pentecost.

I like the idea of living with the season. It is time for me to slow down. I have been rushing, running after one experience and the other, then suddenly, winter is here, and the month is gone and another year has passed by.

This is the season to consider what I most desire and how I live my life. I am in the enviable position that I have a choice with what I do. But am I making the right choices, am I living the Path With Art?

I do a lot of art, and some of it is good. It's a new experience for me to be doing something I love, and have no purpose for it, no goals. I am learning new techniques, still exploring. I can't say that I've found my groove. But what's the use of all this artwork being produced? It just sits there in the studio...

I've started sending it to my friends on my Yahoo group, giving it to my offline friends for their birthdays, doing pieces to go to workshops, journals and such.

It's an interesting place. I have always been driven, need a goal, need to go, need to find a reason to get out of bed. Now I can go back to sleep. And I still find myself driving, driving.

Wednesday, February 17, 2010

A path with art

It is time I put my mouth where my convictions are.
The word that defines my year is HEART: living my life from the heart.

It is an introspection in how I can combine my Art with Heart. My paintings tend to be more spiritual than my digital collage, although they usually contain 'some' spiritual aspects.

Art in spiritual life expresses what cannot be said in words. The use of symbols reaches the viewer at the level beyond words, where explanations and meanings are no longer necessary.

I understand spirituality not as a God of a particular religion, but as the expression of the God within, reaching for that sacred place where there is peace, there is non-violence, there is acceptance, and there is LOVE.

I don't mean here the Love of Valentine's day, the love of marriage till death do us part, the love of couples and children-making. I intend Love in the sense of open-heart, accepting, welcoming.

Love as recognizing that the other is another myself. Another food-factory in a different disguise. But me nonetheless. Doing life just as I am doing life.

A big topic indeed that I will visit and revisit often here.