Balance
Movement
Contrast
Focus
Variety
Unity
Rhythm
Harmony
If life was art and it sort of is, I need all these to keep my interest, to feel my best, so I can have a desire to keep showing up.
When I’m missing one, it’s like a wheel fell off. Then I feel off. If I have too much of one and not enough of another, it easily explains why one of my paintings isn’t working. Often enough, I’ve neglected one of these and well, there you go. My life, my art is not where I’d prefer it to be.
Today yoga was a lot of balancing poses. The class hit all of my principles. A little of this a little of that, in perfect harmony, with movement and contrast.
Sometimes a day will provide all of my principle boxes to be checked, but very often there are missing peices to my perfect puzzle. After reading The Untethered Soul, I’m trying to float my conscious back to the place of observer. Rather than trying to fix what’s off, I’m attempting to relax around any discomfort and let it go. I hope I’m correct in the understanding that as I do this, things will move and flow with more ease.
Im caught between letting go and still caring enough to feel bad. So I know I’m not really doing it, but I am observing myself not doing it, if that’s progress.
The one thing I might say is that as much as I practice and try and change my up habits, life continues to challenge and baffle me.
I once told someone many years ago, that I never live up to my own standards. (awkward suggestions followed, I tried to explain that it wasn’t a bad thing…)
I can and do improve, I’ve accepted my limitations, but what can I say? If I could, I would choose to be much more brilliant. I’d choose to be a much better designed me. As an artist, I want to create better art, always, so I guess I don’t see this as problematic.
Peace Kit 