The Dive is Worth It

September 9

The dive is worth it, to take a deep breath and open your heart.

What you weren't looking at shows up, it was in your field of view, but not until you let go, could it arrive. Allow it to arrive is accomplished through the desire to unfold within something that larger than you are.

The studio is like an airfield, you take off and land from there. Your body stays in an approximate place, but you have gone free from its gravity, so you are able to float. Float the imagination, float the entire planet, float the function and parameters of what is and is not.

When you look, when you are willing to really see, you will find a great unfolding light of intense light-heartedness. Art is light, art that is infused with the intention of compassion, gives to the artist, the viewer, the atmosphere and environment. It includes it all, because the connection is strong.

Surprises unfold because the element of origami maturation unfolds.

What is that?

To unfold a level of light, you must be able to allow the light its own registry, ungoverned by the politics of science or reason. You can easily do this by starting. In a studio you simply pick up the materials of your expression and begin.

Allowing the water of life to pour through your body, breathe through the water, as though you are not drowning, all the while immersed in the ocean of emotion, contained inside a membrane of skin, your own flesh.

A body of work, work fleshed out, are ways of saying an intimate relationship with the light. Artists open their eyes to the wonder, and are enthusiastic in ways uncommon to the majority.

How deep it goes is how deep you can go. The realm is vast, it is limitlessness, and surprisingly intimate. For us, as artists, it is personal and familiar, expansive and vast. It can be quite overwhelming.

That is where the sacred practice of artistry comes in. Showing up every day, rain or shine, hot or cold, empty or full. We make ourselves available to the listening, the sounds and colors, the lines and shapes, the texture of life, and we are given to. And from there/here we create with the materials at hand. If we are out of one thing, we find another, and another, and another, each time creating something that a moment before was not there/here.

To really see takes time, and to have time, you ask for it within yourself. 

To see requires a dive, to see more requires a deeper dive. 

Hope your day finds you able open your eyes underwater and realize you were able to see all along.