Labor Day 2021. Triada Samaras. Digital Photograph. Variable Dimensions. c. 2021
Speckles on Labor Day. She is contemplating the school year and all the pressures involved. Happy Labor Day everyone. One of my least favorite holidays : the name makes me shudder. Alas time waits for no man woman person turtle and summer is closing slowly with or without my/our permission.
I was playing around on my computer last night.
Digital art making offers us so many new possibilities as artists. I used my monitor to re-envision the "Divine Goddess" in the trees photo I took in Maine and posted last time..
Here She is with a painting of mine with many blues to give Her a context. I like this do you?
I am even thinking of re-painting the whole thing when I feel better. Lingering Covid is a physical
limitation for me at the moment but I do not feel confined emotionally, creatively, or spiritually if
that makes sense. In fact perhaps I feel more alive than ever. Or maybe I am just dreaming
again.
Dear Reader/Viewer,
I am coming into the awareness that one aspect of my art work is about the revelation to me
of the Divine Feminine. I did not even know that She was what I was looking for. Now I
think I do. She has been suppressed for centuries. Now I see Her everywhere, in fact.
I think maybe I have been looking for her all my life.
Do you see what I see? She is reaching her arm up to heaven.
The Pandemic has been a period of innermost awarenesses for me.
I have come full circle to the eclipse I experienced in June of 202o. There I heard I am a visionary.
I wondered what a visionary does? What do they DO?
I have also realized even more fully this year I am highly sensitive person and an empath.
Again what do people like me DO? How will the art I make now reflect my newish awarenesses? This is not an easy answer for me. But I do believe I am on a path and this is day one.
I have not exactly shifted from one being to another during the pandemic.
But I have greatly morphed. Or perhaps the words is metamorphosis.
And I keep seeing flying things.
First a bat.
Now a luna moth.
Then the beach.
Now a luna moth again. I have to put these pieces together as I make art.
I upended a book of Ancient Art and found the Goddess Isis.
T.S. July 9, 2021
Hello everyone:
What is the impact of Mindfulness Meditation on an artist like me using an simple cell phone app like the one I am using daily with Sam Harris? Like Zach Grossfeld wrote in 2019 on Medium, it is utterly transformative. I wrote in my last post that this app was a gift from my eldest son, Liam Veuve, who beseeched me to try it. I listened.
To be honest the words: WAKE; AWAKE; AWAKENING; were spiraling through my dreams, daydreams, waking and lseeping thoughts so regularly in the fall of 2019, that when I saw the title of this particular app: "Waking Up" that Liam "handed" to me, I spent zero time arguing with him. Now I thank my son and Sam Harris.
From practing mindfulness meditiation 20 minutes every day, I then started to listen in (tune in) more over to everything: my self, others around me, the sounds of the city, and to nature. As a city dweller for over 30 years (Brooklyn) I feel this latter point is important to say.
"Mindfulness is a quality of being — the experience of being open and aware in the present moment, without reflexive judgment, automatic criticism or mind wandering. Mindfulness meditation is the practice of actually being present in the moment, which in turn trains us to become more mindful throughout the day, particularly during difficult situations. As Ms. Brach puts it: “Mindfulness is your awareness of what’s going on in the present moment without any judgment. Meditation is the training of attention which cultivates that mindfulness.”
From my growing fascination with nature, made more obvious to me when the COVID 19 quarantine began in March 2020, I 'landed' on looking upwards towards the sky over Brooklyn. I have a roof and in quarantine I began to use it regularly. I looked upwards daily.
What was up there? What planets could I see? What was out there? Turns out quite a lot, despite the light pollution. I found this Stellarium page and paid pennies for an app with the same name and have been hooked/enchanted ever since.
Looking up over NYC was another sort of waking up for me. The planet Mars lighting up Gowanus was a whole new thrilling experience for me.
Again, EUREKA!
warmly Triada
Hello everyone,
The events of 2020 and my paying close attention to them and to a few select and gifted people have altered my life immeasurably. Nature (galaxies) have filled in some much-needed information I was previously ignoring due to my predictable human nature.
And now I am forever altered. I have shifted.
And that is a good thing as far as I am concerned. EUREKA!
(And, you, too can do this but more on how in future posts).
warmly, Triada
Hello everyone
I have been shifting enormously as an artist and as a human being since the COVID 19 pandemic began in March 2020. The planets and galaxies have told us to turn inward this year (more on this in another post) and I have listened.
I have been fully aware of all the daily political news and world events too. I have not become an emotional hermit by any means. However, with the quarantine and isolation, I have had the opportunity to do BOTH/AND: Pay attention to outer worldy events AND develop a whole new and intense focus on my inner worldly events. Thus I have experienced a fundametal alteration of myself. This is becoming obvious to me in the way I operate as an artist as a human being in my world. BOTH/AND. I thank Sylvia High for introducing me to this idea some years back in NYC.
Here is an image (the top GIF) I embrace that deeply relates to my process:
But it does not "say" everything.
In addition, there are many synonyms for the word "shift" of course:
I like some of these better than others.
Finally here is a lovely text about shifting:
But back to my new goal and primary purpose for this blog now:
I begin from this day forward to shift the content of this blog. Now I will focus on my dynamic shifting inner process as an artist and human being even as I also feature outer art world items of significance and meaning to me.
What is the reason for my decision you may ask? Stay tuned....BOTH/AND. Thanks Sylvia. A EUREKA! moment for sure. LINK
To all of you reading here: Thank you. Namaste. Stay Strong and Well in these challenging times.
