Identity

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Children are conceived world open. As their interpretation of how to perceive reality is being formed an identity is created. Artist who push positive human evolution forward, personally and communally, become aware early that some or most of their identity was adopted from their outer social environment and involvements, e.g. parents, mentors, neighbors, social events, natural habitat, etc. Artist are prone to step outside the preconceived identity box made for them by society once they realize that the identity labels that were placed on them were not chosen by them and do not define who they really are. In this rejection/resurrection experience unique creativity expands.

 

 

©Copyright 2018 Guy Schell

Shaping The Present Moment

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It’s like the experience of an adult child who has just blown a soap bubble. As the bubble floats in front of you, you know that if you touch it, it may burst. Yet, you can gently moving the air in the space around it, and while still intact its shape and direction change. Neither you nor the bubble dominates the experience. Both are allowing each other to be. The bubble shapes your perception as you shape the bubble. In this, you and the bubble co-create together. Your energies have melded to conceive something that neither of you imagined was possible.

 

“True perfection seems imperfect,
yet it is perfectly itself.
True fullness seems empty,
yet it is fully present.

True straightness seems crooked.
True wisdom seems foolish.
True art seems artless.

The Master allows things to happen.
She shapes events as they come.
She steps out of the way
and lets the Tao speak for itself.”

(Tao Te Ching V. 45)

 

© Guy Schell 2018

  1. Photograph: Michelle Lynn Fritz,  Frozen Bubble