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28 Friday Dec 2018
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marcelo léonard
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28 Friday Dec 2018
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365 Project, Black and White, conceptual, fotografía, PhotoArt, photography, Postaday, self-portrait
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“To lessen the anxiety inherent in a world of uncertainty and ongoing change, our minds create fabrics of consistency as they intertwine the threads of past experience with those of inference of a yet to be experienced future. Thus, we interact with the world through conceptual lenses that color reality in various shades of truth.” ~B Koeford
Thanks Brenda
Art is all about sharing our very different realities.
m
“The self-portraiture process can generate a sense of mastery over formerly vague or even threatening aspects of self. By representing such things as depression, anxiety, helplessness, disability, loss of meaning, and death, the self-portrait helps objectify emotions so the person can more clearly witness and control them, rather than be controlled BY them.”
The Varieties of Self-Portrait Experiences – John Suler
I hope you do not mind if I continue this thread of thought exchanged. “The personal story is a narrative of our unique sense of identity. We create our identities through the stories we weave onto a tapestry that is formed against the background of our family mythologies. We pull threads from of an assemblage of recalled details from our pasts and weaved them into images that cast us in whatever role corresponds with our current situations, feelings, thoughts, or actions. The colored threads of this tapestry are often re-embroidered to reflect the creative and dynamic process of our perspectives as we shift in, out, and between various roles, feeling states, and cognitions. As we reflect on our self-created images we are in turn affected by them; therefore, there is an unconscious re-weaving of our tapestries.
Our self-stories as well as our family mythologies create and maintain our identities and thus influence how we anticipate experiences, act, and subsequently interpret our situation. Becoming aware of the tapestry and images we are creating frees us to review patterned behaviors, reframe our story through different colored concepts, and to release rigid interpretations.” ~B Koeford
Everyone has a different understanding and a different opinion about what we call reality.
But so far no one has found a definition that satisfies everyone.
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Before I had studied Zen for thirty years, I saw mountains as mountains,
and waters as waters.
When I arrived at a more intimate knowledge, I came to the point
where I saw that mountains are not mountains, and waters are not waters.
But now that I have got its very substance I am at rest.
For it’s just that I see mountains once again as mountains, and waters once again as waters.
Ching-yuan
Hmmm….
Thanks Sue
I have often been told that I would have more success if I worked within the reality framework.
Success is something I have never looked for, but I am still trying to know what “reality” means.
m
Isn’t reality different for all of us, Marcelo?
Yes, I think so.
I am profoundly convinced that Art is the tool that helps us to understand and appreciate this fascinating diversity.
I think you are right there, Marcelo
By creating we can help make the world a little better. 🙂
I’d like to thank you for your comments and support throughout this project, both have been very useful and worthwhile.
My best wishes for this New Year!
Warm regards
m
Pleased to have been of use, Marcelo! A Happy, Healthy and Creative New Year to you, too!