Today - Was A Piece of Art...
I worked on a piece of hummingbird art which I shared here originally. After working on this art, off and on for years, it finally became a "picture" on this day and it felt wonderful! I wanted to share my wonderful feeling, but realize I can't. It's just how something feels when it "comes together" after a lot of work. I felt it with this picture, but someone else looking at my picture doesn't feel this. They haven't done all the work on it. They have these feelings with something else - something they've worked at which finally "comes together".
Art is something I've practiced and worked at for years, Sharing this hummingbird art helped me realize I don't want to share practiced things where I SEEM to have some proficiency or "expertise" here! What I want to share here are pieces of me and my life which belong to the spirit child I am at heart...the one who doesn't know and is here to learn...
On this blog, I'm wanting to create a space to share the observations, puzzles, feelings and, and, and...which concern the outer world which I DO share with others... Here, I'm wanting to explore a new kind of connection to others at a "being" rather than a "thought" or "idea" level. I've shared almost all I can or want to of my inner world (which by its very nature is only shareable to a limited extent) in my books and on my web-site. I hope this proves useful to others, as it's made a BIG difference to me inside, but I've done enough! I don't want to share much more. The inner work I've done though, has helped me see I'm often confused, often MOST confused when I think "I know". This has made me a little suspicious of any "knowledge" I think I might have...
I just do my best each moment of each day with whatever I'm given to work with, as I journey on my wandering, wondering way through life. For the reasons outlined above, I'm also finding, it's the wandering and wondering in the outer world, I mainly feel like sharing now rather than where this takes me inside or some piece of practiced "expertise"... Consequently, after sitting, for a couple of days, with how it felt to share another piece of my art, I removed it. However, putting it here and then removing it has helped me not only to clarify my vision for this blog, but has also increased my understanding of my relationship to art in particular and creativity in general...
In spite of developing a little skill with it, art still takes A LOT of time and effort. I can spend years working off and on with a piece of art (and did with this hummingbird art). When it finally comes together into something to "show" all that is seen is a "final" product . The "final" product is something I've worked at and polished and is seen only at the end of what can be a very long process. For me now, it is the process which is MOST interesting and valuable NOT the "finished product"... The journey of creating, with all of its twists and turns, where I save what "works" and discard or re-work what doesn't and understand "why" best I can with each step, is what feels of REAL value to me. Seeing only a finished product gives a VERY false impression of expertise and misses the value inherent in the process completely...
The value found in the process, it seems, can't be shared very well. It has to be experienced. However, creation encompasses much more that just "the arts". It can involve putting together a stereo system, a collection, a family, a relationship, a garden, a meal, a business, working with a computer, learning or honing a skill, "fixing" a piece of machinery... It can be as simple and small as making the "perfect" cup of coffee to as big as heading up an army or organizing a country, but one way or another, I think human beings just HAVE to create something, somehow. The value inherent in the creative process is available to each person with whatever form his or her creative endeavor takes. It makes NO real difference what it is. I think the process is the same...
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