A regional expression we use as a way to acknowledge the sudden realization of something obvious:
Dawn breaks over Marblehead!
I pause this morning to evaluate the day-after-day frustration of trying to get decent photos of book pages I've painted, pages that I leave bound in the book, pages that curl up, won't lie flat, have shadows near the binding, and so forth.
Dawn breaks over my hard stony head: I can step back and let go of perfect!
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| To Wake When All Is Possible Before the Agitations of the Day Grip You 7 x 9"; acrylic and hand-painted collage abstract 2020 |
6 comments:
Enjoy the imperfect! I think the ten is Wabi Sabi! Your description comes so close to home! Love this new balancing act.
Wabi Sabi: yes! exactly! Perfect précis of my embrace of imperfect here, Carol : )
What a fun expression! I may have to borrow it.....in the winter here, there is little sun to rise over anything. And when there is, those little glimpses of sun are known as sun breaks or "sucker holes" - because we all run outside believing it will last for more than a minute. Ha ha!
sucker holes ha ha ha! thanks for the terrific back-atcha of a pnw regionalism : )
Fun post Dotty, and comments. LOL :) I have so many "duh" moments. Haha. I love the shapes, the teetering, the colors. :) Fun :)
Sheila, thanks for your feedback. Fun to have you mention the teetering—what was engaging in the composing was setting up IMPLIED teetering that would never actually take place b/c of a little bit of glue! Somehow it speaks to the experience that I assume we all have at least occasionally of nearly falling—literally or metaphorically—but then in fact regaining some measure of balance instead.
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