Anderson, Sandra 2025. Making Connections, mixed media on Acrylic 400mm X500mm

It has been a while since I wrote in ‘mysophistgarden’. Mostly because I was writing somewhere else. That was an adventure to sell some books and explore another part of my world. Now I am back here.

In recent times I have been studying at Queensland College of Art and Design at Southbank. As I have lived a full working life, choosing study was a big thing. I realised as I have completed subjects over the past more than a few years, that I don’t have to rush to finish. I don’t have to do anything of importance there, really. It is about something I will potentially discover at the end.

Creativity allows me to explore and in some ways play but really to investigate, sometimes interrogate ideas without need to use words. Most of my life is lived without words. Living alone means unless I am intentional about contact, I can not hear the sound of my voice for days. It also means that words can’t hold all my ‘truths.’ Truths those things I arrive upon without asking a question following the seek openly and you shall find principle. It is always challenging and sometimes surprising.

Being surprised and not really knowing how to align everything is good for my soul. Letting the things which no longer serve my life leave gives me more energy for the the things which do. In that process I have discovered the internal tension of polarities of ideas and the slopes between them. Images and words come together frequent to surprise me and remind me that life is this gift I get to live.

Happy Day, Sandy