Post #18 free and clear
So, I was reminded today of the concept of being free and clear.
In the studio, you want to acknowledge that the work you make comes from your experience, your work history, your training. But, can you walk into the studio each day and let yourself be free and clear of all that has happened in previous work sessions, and approach that days' work session completely free and clear? Its actually quite tough. We artists have our favorite habits, our favorite materials, our favorite elements, our style, and yes, we do want consistancy in our work - but yet, can you say hello to all that, but let yourself make stuff that is free and clear of everything else? it is quite the challenge because your past is literally looking at you while you work.
In your life, can you do the same? believe it or not, it somehow seems a bit easier. Each day we wake up, and sure, we are influenced by our background, our upbringing, and whatever has happened in previous days - but can we approach each day freely and clearly? Can you be new to yourself and your life? Now some people may like to thing of this as living in the moment, living in the now, but I actually think its a bit different. Maybe it is a choice that when you wake up that day, that it is a new day in every sense. So can you approach that day free and clear of whatever happened previously? Can you let you mind be free and clear? can you in fact, tell, or rather- train, your brain to be free and clear?
free and clear, this is my dog, I'll ask her what advice she may give!
posted by Jenna at
12:03 PM
2 Comments:
great question, I think it's called Buddhism....
Hi Jenna i happened to read this older blog, and thought the following statement from J. Krishnamurti might interest you on the subject. His life was dedicated to provoking people into facing the issue.
Is it possible to observe without the thinker? I look at everything with an
image, with a symbol, with memory, with knowledge. I look at my friend, at my
wife, at my neighbour, at the boss, with the image which thought has built. I
look at my wife with the image I have about her, and she looks at me with the
image she has about me: the relationship is between these two images. This is a
fact - it's not an invention on my part - it's a fact! Thought has built these
symbols, images, ideas. Can I look, at first, at a tree, at a flower, at the
sky, at the cloud, without an image? The image of the tree is the word I have
learnt which gives a certain name to the tree, tells its species, and recalls
its beauty. Can I look at that tree, at that cloud, at that flower, without
thought, without the image? That's fairly easy to do, if you have done it. But
can I look - without the image - at a human being with whom I am intimate, whom
I consider as wife, husband, child? If I can't, there
is no real relationship: the only relationship is between the images that we
both have. So can I look at life - the clouds, the stars, the trees, the river,
the bird on the wing, my wife, my child, my neighbour, this whole earth - can I
look at it all without the image? Though you have insulted me, though you have
hurt me, though you have said nasty things about me or praised me, can I look at
you without the image or the memory of what you have done and said to me?
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