What folks are saying...
Mark, what does the printing on the 4th one down say?
(Arguing with myself)
COMMENT PART 2: On further consideration.
So am I saying folks shouldn't drop everything and start building birdhouses?
No, that's not it. Made things are fabulous. They're like crystals, perceptible tokens of our participation in that energy I spoke of.
But I think often we do not appreciate the opportunities we all have each quotidian moment to engage. And if we find we've forgotten how, then we pick up a paintbrush and start moving it around, or turn on some music and start moving ourselves around, until we remember. We needn't become a painter or a dancer or feel guilty because we spend all our time on the mundane aspects of our lives and have no concrete product at the end of the day we can point to and say, look what I did.
To deny the energy is to invite disease. But the energy can be expressed equally well whether we express it by making a thing or by living completely in every moment, dancing through every day its willing partner.
I can't keep forgetting this. Thanks Mark for getting the ball rolling and providing this forum for discussion. And I love your things and the way they are so obviously made of you. Never stop showing us. Never stop sharing your delight. We need to remember. love
Art, yeah. But rather than broaden its definition I think we ought maybe to reduce it and and then keep it in a broader context. It's creative impulse and exercising it, manifesting something out of that urge, whether it's a terrific omelette or a suspension bridge or a stellar flowchart. It feels great, it keeps us healthy, it staves off depression, it contributes to our world. Sometimes we have squelched the impulse (or have had it squelched) for so long we can't detect it anymore. Then we must go hunting for it. Force it out of hiding. Prime the pump and hit the restart button. Because creation is celebration.
I define craft as the maintaining and refining of creative tradition to the very best of our individual ability. Art is the forging of new traditions. But we need call ourselves neither artist nor crafter to create, and the fruits of our efforts needn't be something we can point to as "made." The point, the value, I believe, lies in our surrender to the impulse, our quiet merger with the energy of an ongoing creation that never ceases.
I forgot to say WOW! about your colors. WOW! That's what Vincent was trying to do.
Way to go! You are a true philosopher however you spell it.
You are right, and I agree, and I'm going to print this entry to remind myself of what you've said. But I can't join you here Mark, because I'm busy doing it over there - at my blog. I'll sure stop by to say hello and see what's up though!
As I looked at your pictures I asked myself which one I would want to have in my house. I'd look at one, and say, "Oh yeah! That one!" go to the next and say, "No, it's this one!" and on through each one. No decisions yet. They are each marvelous.
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