I have been talking with people as I normally do. The familiar topics of the week are around life purpose and that dreaded question of well….what do you want comes up. It must be the season for life questioning and changing. This imageand the featured image were drawn at the same time. In a same state of contemplation. Both probably approach the same theme but from different perspectives. Responses to the conversations and being around so many people who are open to a new way of being or idea or simply letting go….

It is a good thing that I draw as much as I talk because sometimes it means I can simply get to be quite. Inner stillness lets me feel content and that changes the things I draw. I know a lot of my images become colouring in spaces for other people but I would not choose to call myself a graphic design, what I create is still an idea that has resonance within my being about a life truths that matters to me. Always with my I can only draw what I know. Probably at heart I am more of a poet than dictionary writer. But I do have my own dictionary of shapes that appear in my drawings, less so in my paintings.

 

The eye like shape grew from the question of what is love that was posed in a group discussion a couple of years ago. Ironically the conversation host could only use words to explore the idea of love….yet he wanted to know all truth about it. The clutter of words got all tied up on the topic that is too big for one moment and so ranging that millions of words have been written. For me it began with a circle of being, an inner being that held all things and nothing inside it. The circle is filled with a sun suspended with cobweb…. the dew drops on the cobweb hold the history of all that is within the molecules. (another blog). That sense of held being with the hands protecting and reading out is suspended in a shape that has hands on either end. It has become stylised over time to something that looks like an eye. Ironically wisdom texts tell us the eyes are the windows to the soul…so maybe I am more wise than I know When I include the shape in an image I am at heart writing love into the picture.

Over the last while I have been drawing a great many women holding circles that have circles inside circles inside circles. Holding close to them their hearts and souls. Why we are here is to be the best of ourselves over the passing years. There is an exhausting urge among many to rush at it like they have missed something or will miss something if they don’t get their ideas and feelings together right this very minute. We have the whole of our lives to live our fullest sense of self. Breathing helps I find.

Anyway the man at the top happened at the same time as the the pencil drawing. Both about sitting inside the idea that really the heart of everything comes down to holding kindness in our hearts and sharing it. I know why I am here on this planet but I don’t need to prove it. this week I simply get to be as I am. I don’t need to tell why I am here to everyone else and before I am accused of spending vast amounts of time agonising over it. I haven’t and I don’t. It isn’t my way to frame everything with words. This is my discipline of words to share the ideas that arrive and hope they are touchable by others. Maybe that is why letting others colour them is appealing. There is a story to be round within them if that is your desire. You don’t need my story to find your own but if it helps then it helps.

Happy Day and may your colouring be joy-filled. The man at the top will make his appearance in my groups this week and next.

May love touch you today

Sandy