by Cindy | Oct 26, 2012 | Uncategorized |
Five years ago, I left my home in South Carolina to a couple of young in love students to live until I could reclaim the space.
This past August, I returned and was taking my furniture out of the upstairs garage area. Slowly, day by day, returning the stuff to living conditions in the detached house. Finally I got the area cleared and began organizing the storage space into my art studio once again. As I cleared the drawing table, there were two in process drawings, one in process painting, and two drawings ready to be put on canvas. Wow! What a find! Not only did I have my studio back, but I had work begun ready to move forward. Funny thing is, I remember having this work and not being sure how I wanted to resolve it. Now, five years later and many other pieces completed and a new style evolving, I can see clearly how these pieces fit into the thought process and were in fact the forerunners of this current body of work. Point is, right brain non- linear, multitasking aspects of the self sure are exciting and can be relied on to produce exploration and creativity. It may not appear so at the time. It may be difficult to just leap into something different and obscure. But, the totality in the end is remarkable. DeeAnna Brown sings of this aspect of life in her songs, “wouldn’t it be better as a surprise”, and the lyrics in “taking the leap”. Breathe and live and breathe and let your life be an experiment in Faith. And breathe again. What a surprise and lesson these five long ago efforts were.
by Cindy | Jan 8, 2012 | Uncategorized |
My opinions have been formulated through responses to life situations with either a “yes”, or a “no”. Anything else leaves no real response. It seems to me that my opinions have less and less importance each year. Of more importance is my mode of operation. Opinions are the dogma of everyday affairs, but one’s consciousness determines how one moves through the world.
My personal experience has affirmed that one can “see” beyond time and space, “dance” out of body travel and “glimpse” into the future or the past. I have learned to trust my intuitions and am familiar with the internal signals of being. To sink into the knowledge and energies of the universe taps resources that extend the rational mind. This Ashe, pranna, one light, one sound has been written about by masters and mystics of all religions, new age literature, and philosophers THROUGHOUT history. But, to actually move through life using this wisdom requires the development of skills in asking, listening, and receiving. This type of awareness is being investigated by MANY who would like to move the human species up a notch.
My life’s work has been an investigation of this ground zero energy, the Absolute Infinite, and the computer technology that has allowed us to fuse belief, myth, and rational investigation through math and science. The patterning that runs through all that exists, like fiber optics or DNA, unites and completes every valence of life. I continue to try, through my images, to make “real” on each ordinary day, the unordinary. The images reference and reaffirm. Nameless other artists are doing the same thing. We are in a classical art period in that artists are thinking new thoughts, seeing new images, and working hard to understand them and synthesize them into existence. There are new ideas and with new ideas come new art. There is a very immediate need for new images of communication to encourage this movement along. Any attempt to encourage one’s creativity is a step closer to achieving new ways of being. I continue to say that the creative endeavor brings us closer to the true image of God, in whatever form your tradition has known that entity. And it is within our power to have peace, it is within our mind’s capacity to have peace. Let us begin this New Year on whatever date your tradition begins it, with the consciousness that peace is a state of mind. GO THERE. Do the things that you need to do for yourself to GET THERE !
For only through creativity can answers be found for the current problems. The old paradigms are just not working. We must create a new reality. Individually and Communally.
REALLY. REALLY.
Draw, Write, Make music, Cook, Swim, But, just go there. BE THERE, and try to stay there each waking hour.
Easy ? No.
Just do it !
by Cindy | Oct 18, 2011 | Uncategorized |
A recent FB entry came to me. Lao Tzu, “If you want to awaken all of humanity, then awaken all of yourself. If you want to eliminate the suffering in the world, then eliminate all that is dark and negative in yourself. Truly, the greatest gift you have to give is that of your own self-transformation.”
That is so beautiful. And there are so many people actually trying to do this in so many different ways. Perhaps that is why I have my studio out in the rain forest on the west end of St. Croix. It is beautiful. It is above the Mt. Washington Nature Preserve and Labyrinth. It is peaceful. Perhaps that is why I have practiced yoga for so many years. Art and Yoga bring me peace of mind. Art and Yoga take me to that place deep inside of me where there is a world that is better than me. There is a world that is inspirational. It is my desire to share this inspiration.
Over the past seventy years, America has slowly integrated ART into school curricula. This has been accomplished through research, financial support, and promotion.
Over the past 30,000 years the human brain has developed and evolved into the cerebrum / cerebellum as we know it. It is important to keep in mind that this evolution is in a constant state of flux, and historically, we have developed new brain power to support our new lifestyles.
Over the past five centuries, the Caribbean has experienced Diaspora from every corner of the world. Our people have been exposed to multiple behaviors, beliefs, and customs far longer than many other areas can boast. We truly are an integrated people from all over the world.
Today our extra ordinary interracial young people with multi-cultural gifts bring us talents that cross left brain technology and right brain intuitive power. They are powerfully physical and intellectually curious. Hopefully our efforts towards self-transformation will create an environment rich for the cultivation of their talents towards peace. I believe our world IS in a state of transformation and that our efforts, one at a time, will bring peace and prosperity to those who seek it. And more and more every day, one at a time, we become enlightened as to what that really means and how to manifest it in our community.
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