In my previous blog I talked a bit about a book I had read at Burning Man that explained that our lives are basically a hologram that we create- now that I have been home for awhile I have grounded myself in my reality- home, studio, family, friends, work, the Rocky Mountains and I am feeling really grateful!!! I came across this Rumi quote (in a novel by Lily Tuck, “The Woman Who Walked on Water”) which captures how I think our reality works:
“O brother, you are your very thoughts
As for the rest, you are only hair and bone.
If your thought is a rose, you’re a garden of roses.
If it’s a thorn, you’re but fuel for the stove.”
I am really grateful that I am surrounded by so much creativity!! We went to the Bead Show in Denver last week for work, to buy about a third of our annual bead inventory:
We lay the beads out in color families- their colors and textures are gorgeous:
It was the annual Estes Park Open Studios Tour this past weekend- I met some delightful people!!My heart was warmed by a vivacious 80 year old woman who loved my painting “Golden Memories” because it struck an emotional chord in her. She has a daughter with stage 4 melanoma and they had just spent the summer together reminiscing. I had painted this piece right after my youngest son had moved away from home and my dear grandmother, Mimi had died and I was in a swirl of Golden Memories. I feel so blessed when one of my pieces of art work evokes an emotional response in the viewer!!
I turned my living room into a mini gallery:
and I had the opportunity to go through EVERYTHING in my studio and organize it into baggies, drawers and plastic containers:
my Burning Man bike assemblage sort of fell apart so I pulled it off- check out all of the white Playa dust!!:
I washed all of the doll heads off- I am not sure what they will reincarnate as!
Now that my studio is cleaned up and cleared out I can’t seem to stay away from it- I’ve resumed painting on my sacred feminine painting; have started on a new proverb painting:”the higher the monkey climbs the more you can see of his behind”; and I’ve also gotten pieces together for a new assemblage. My Art Process really benefits from having my studio organized yet it is always so difficult to motivate to do it!!! Fall is such a good time for clearing & cleaning & preparing for the inner life of winter don’t you think?
Speaking of fall- it may be over already here- we had a thunder & lightening storm followed by hail & then SNOW!! and it has been cold ever since!!I am sorry to say goodbye to my flowers until next spring!:
Which makes me REALLY grateful that next weekend my Mom & my sister & me are heading down to Disney World in WARM Fla. to celebrate our birthdays!! It will be fun to compare the Magical Kingdom of Disney World to the magical world of Burning Man all within a month of each other!!
Like a tightly wound spring my monkey mind relaxed and as I stared out the window I had time to contemplate the ideas from the most recent book I was reading: “Busting Loose from the Money Game” by Robert Scheinfeld. The very basic premise- loosely interpreted by me- is that our consciousness creates everything we experience down to the smallest detail and the world as we experience it is basically a hologram created by us- therefore, using his suggested process we can create our world without limits or restrictions. These are ideas put forth in many new age metaphysical books these days. Robert talks briefly about the quantum physics discoveries that support this premise. It is a lot to wrap the mind around and our Burning Man adventure was the perfect setting for reflecting upon the idea that not only do I create art but I create EVERYTHING in my life- even YOU reading my blog!
