April 16, 2022 Weekly Musings
Posted on April 16 2022
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I Want to Share with You - Christine's Gallery
I want to share with you this inspiring duo, and just in time for the upcoming Easter holiday. This is a photo of an Easter Lily by William Radant and a Poem to go with the photo Kindred by Lisa Poje Angelos . These pieces will be part of the new gallery that Christine Alfery is opening called Christine's Gallery and its first exhibition is called "Artist Muse 5" Poets and artists teamed up and were each other's muses. There will be approximately 40 artists and poets pairs. It is a wonderful opportunity for Wisconsin Artists and Poets to share their works to the public on line - especially with all the art gallery closings since COVID.
by Lisa Poje Angelos
The meaning you ascribe
I am a beautiful Lily flower
Like all beings, I mean to thrive
Each bringing meaning to hearts
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My Favorite Way To Spend The Day
Featured image: Baxter
One of the things I’ve noticed over time when I am in my studio, my creative space is that I am filled with hope. I get out a piece of paper and just start playing with paint, lines, and mark making. Before long, I begin to like some of my lines, marks and colors and I think, “Perhaps this can be a different way of thinking.”
There is the feeling of something unexpected, the feeling that something will emerge from my playful, joyful, happy lines, marks and colors. There is a hope that something will emerge - something unique, always unique, always exciting. Hope gets my juices flowing. Playing around in the studio gets my juices flowing and my imagination wonderfully spontaneous and well imaginative. It is my favorite way to spend a day.
Rabbits, Renewal and Rebirth
Featured image: Beatrix
Rabbits represent rebirth and renewal in many cultures and in 2022, it will again be the year of the rabbit in my book. I was going to do turtles but to date turtles just aren’t doing it for me, so I returned to rabbits with the hope of renewal and rebirth for the world.
Rabbits are making me smile and laugh every time I do one. And that is what it is all about. Recently I got a Facebook message that told me that it wasn’t the Chinese year of the Rabbit but instead it was the Chinese year of the Ox.
I replied, that while I did not mean to offend him this was just part of my imagination and sense of humor – this is Christine’s Year Of The Rabbit.
Rabbits for me represent, rebirth and renewal. They are considered a lucky animal, and there are many websites talking about rabbits. So I am having fun with the rabbit this year.
Rabbit Symbolism
Featured image: She Calls Herself Clover
Rabbit symbolism and meanings include sensitivity, gentleness, fertility, haste, new beginnings, the moon, and good luck. Rabbits live on every continent except Antarctica, so they appear in the mythologies and folklore of cultures around the world. - Rabbit Symbolism, Meaning & The Rabbit Spirit Animal
https://www.uniguide.com › rabbit-meaning-symbolism-s
Rabbits, are a symbol of the hope for freedom—both from society's expectations, and from one's own personal limitations. - Of Mice and Men
What do rabbits represent in Christianity?The idea of rabbits as a symbol of vitality, rebirth and resurrection derives from antiquity. This explains their role in connection with Easter, the resurrection of Christ. - Rabbits and hares in art - Wikipedia
It Is My Hope
Featured image: Reaching for the Sky
It is my hope that my art helps teach others how to think conceptually. What do I mean by that? Well, first one needs to think and to want to think. Basically, it means the practice of connecting abstract things. For example, the fluid flow of paint for me, conceptually thinking deepens how I look at that fluid flow of paint. It change how I relate to it and how I give it a chance to be. A conceptual thinker can understand and see abstract elements, process them easily for ideas or concepts from these ideas.
Many use reason to take abstract elements and create concepts out of them. An example would be physicians thinking reasonably, or using reason to suggest proper procedures for preventing COVID. I like to think I am a reasonable thinker. I also believe reason isn’t the answer to everything. Reason needs an opposite to make sense. For me, that opposite is the concepts created from the abstractions that I create when I first put paint to paper. Reason needs creativity to exist.
Some would say perhaps that reason only needs common sense or pragmatics for its opposite. Common sense or pragmatics just aren’t an opposite to reason. Common sense, in essence, is a reality formed concept. It is not enough when it comes to integrate complex abstract issues and abstractions. For that, one needs to understand the basic tenants of philosophy and theory. Without philosophy or theory and the ability to think that way, we would all be wandering sheep following a leader blindly. Sometimes I think that we are anyway.
Anyway – thinking conceptually in art and having it be part of my work over all is my way of sharing my philosophical thinking and reasoning with others. Hopefully, my thoughts will trigger thoughts from my readers and viewers. My hope is that they, too, can begin to understand philosophical, political (I believe politics is based on philosophy more than reason.) concepts.
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