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.
About Me
- Socrates
- Palm Springs, California, United States
- I live in happiness and contentment in sunny Palm Springs with Paul, my wonderful dog who makes me laugh. I am a retired writer and now spend my time making digital montages, abstract paintings, beaded jewelry, lace books. The past owner of a 22,000 used book store, I have an affinity for books, and love to alter them, fold them, and exchange them. Now I paint in them, and even outside of them. I love to construct them from scratch, and make them with fabric and lace. The rest of the time, I create spiritual abstract acrylic paintings, beaded jewelry and wall hangings, or sit at my computer and make digital creations.
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