Acrylic on Archival Gessobord with 3/4" Birch Sides, 12x12", Ready to hang!
I've been reading an article in the Feb. 3 issue of Time Magazine entitled "The Art of Being Mindful". This idea of being mindful has been cropping up a lot lately in various media. What does it take to mindful? Is it an art? I am finding that it is a practice that I need to embrace more deeply, as an artist. In order to really dig into who I am and how I think about the world and my place in it, I need to have quiet spaces, but not just quiet for the sake of quiet. I do that well enough. I am talking about a deliberate quiet. A quiet where you turn inward and control what thoughts you want to allow in. A place of emptying and listening. It can be really noisy in there, full of "to-do" lists. I was just in a conversation yesterday about how we are so overly plugged in...to music, to podcasts, to screens. It is a good thing to be involved in the world, but without quiet time for reflection, it seems we are just vessels where life passes through. It can be something as simple as taking a moment to notice...what you are eating, who you are talking to, the beauty of tulip leaves breaking through the dirt. It can be as deep as scheduling 10-20 minutes of quiet time for prayer and meditation. These are holy places.
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$100 for this original painting, ready-to-hang, plus $15 shipping and handling.