Showing posts with label inspired by patty butynski. Show all posts
Showing posts with label inspired by patty butynski. Show all posts

Friday, September 23, 2022

Breaking Up a Logjam

I notice what catches my attention today.

These words:

To fall into that

which is unidentified,

untethered,

undefined by phenomena,

for one brief moment,

allows the possibility

of knowing—

that knowing 

that is already inside you—

knowing that which you are

as awareness,

open awareness

prior to the arising 

of phenomena,

prior to the arising

of identity.

It’s in this that you see clearly.

You see beyond opinion,

position taking,

narrative.

You see beyond the matrix

of conditioning,

the matrix of the world.


—Amoda Maa


I notice what art catches my eye as I scroll through a feed online.


The logjam inside me breaks up and I begin making marks and changes on my previously-dubbed 'work in progress paralysis.' 


Grateful for movement!




work in progress


Saturday, August 27, 2022

Seein' Me and Julio Down by the Schoolyard

Well I'm on my way

I don't know where I'm going

I'm on my way

I'm taking my time but I don't know where


—Paul Simon



All true:


• I'm on my way,

• I don't know where I'm going, and

• I'm taking my time.


Also true:


• This piece did not go at all where I thought it might; and

• I'm grateful to be working in a sketchbook because it frees me up to go more easily wherever a painting takes me.




Me and Julio Down by the Schoolyard
7 x 10"; acrylic and ink in sketch book
abstract
2022