Your story resonates with me as I’m finding myself at a time where I need to move slowly, occasionally get stuck and just have to surrender to the fact that I can’t go faster right now both in my creative work and regular life things. Your abstracts are beautiful, I love the calm energy they have 🩵
I'm working with surrender right now, too. My medium is words, of course, but I understand that stuck feeling and also the feeling of groping around in the dark, wondering what the hell I'm doing and if any of it matters! Part of it is my age, I think (60). Part of it is the season, fall here in Maine, USA. Part of it is a lot of emotional and systems updating going on personally. When I sit in meditation I think about a muscular river with a warm current, sweeping me along in life. I flow by years and events, tears and challenges, fears and death. One day the river will meet the sea, and I'll be home. It will take me where I need to go. I don't need to fear or understand, I just need to float on my back and watch the stars and birds and clouds, relax, breathe, surrender to the mystery and beauty of life as it is and myself as I am. As a swimmer and swim teacher, I know when we tense up, we sink. If we relax, the water will carry us, cradle us, and care for us. As I read your post, I remembered an old friend telling me, a long time ago, with some irritation: "Be yourself. Everyone else is taken." I often think of that, and it makes me smile. Maybe there's a lot more of me than I've met. Maybe there's a lot more of you than you've met. I love this abstract art you're creating as much as I love your other work. I'd buy it, put it on the wall, enjoy it and feel uplifted by it. And I don't usually like abstract art. So, for what it's worth, keep going ...
What an absolutely BEAUTIFUL reflection Jennifer! I will carry that with me all week, the idea of floating down a river towards the sea- it gives me shivers and you've unknowingly helped me unlock a current creative thing I've been puzzling over too, so thank you! I'm visiting Portland, Maine a year from now so can't wait to see it for myself. Much love!
Your abstracts are glorious, still so “light on the sea-y” I love them but also they seam to be something. I don’t know if that makes any sense… thank you so much for sharing this. Your quiet acts of kindness and soul unraveling in order to become more you resonates too. You’ve encouraged me to continue carry out those quiet acts of kindness at work and believe that they do make a difference. Feeling like goo also resonates 😂 the hope for the wings coming in their own good time encourages me too. Although to me ever since I’ve encountered you (from good ship courses) you’ve appeared to be flying 🦋 ti me.
Nebulous is a Good Thing sometimes. Can't always be clear, sharp, and focused. Don't even want to be. Good for you. And yay for your silent helper angels.
Your work is exquisite and becoming more so. There are so many bits of life that come under Things that Long to see the Light. I have started to love abstract art these last few years. (Just stopped for a quick cuppa and now off to work uplifted with an extra spring in my step) 💕
This was such a beautiful musing. I can relate to what you said about needing a day between each day! Whew! It is okay to be different. It is okay to need time to breathe. I have to remind myself of that often.
Utterly delighted by your beautiful post, Gillian, SO real and human and please don't stop sharing the wonderful cosmic thoughts! We are indeed star dust. xx
This part really resonates with me, since I experience exactly the same!: For some reason, it has been hard to tell me over-trained hands to do this (and it has been ten times harder to do this with the written word), but working in abstract has finally unlocked something. The tenderness which others have shown me, the healing that has occurred in my own cells, all these things have started to travel to my fingertips in a way that makes the lines and brushstrokes I see reflected back at me feel more like ‘home’. I don’t understand it, but I love it.
I just came across your art today and I thought I felt it deep in my being, but then I came over here and read these words. I felt them so deeply and am also feeling the need to let go in this season. I'm glad that you didn't listen to the thought that asked if you heard yourself and went ahead with publishing these words. Good luck in your mission of letting go.
Your abstracts are beautiful - so peaceful and full of feeling. There is so much in your post that I could have written myself. But I see a few commenters here who identify too. Here's to us all turning to goo together.
Your story resonates with me as I’m finding myself at a time where I need to move slowly, occasionally get stuck and just have to surrender to the fact that I can’t go faster right now both in my creative work and regular life things. Your abstracts are beautiful, I love the calm energy they have 🩵
I'm working with surrender right now, too. My medium is words, of course, but I understand that stuck feeling and also the feeling of groping around in the dark, wondering what the hell I'm doing and if any of it matters! Part of it is my age, I think (60). Part of it is the season, fall here in Maine, USA. Part of it is a lot of emotional and systems updating going on personally. When I sit in meditation I think about a muscular river with a warm current, sweeping me along in life. I flow by years and events, tears and challenges, fears and death. One day the river will meet the sea, and I'll be home. It will take me where I need to go. I don't need to fear or understand, I just need to float on my back and watch the stars and birds and clouds, relax, breathe, surrender to the mystery and beauty of life as it is and myself as I am. As a swimmer and swim teacher, I know when we tense up, we sink. If we relax, the water will carry us, cradle us, and care for us. As I read your post, I remembered an old friend telling me, a long time ago, with some irritation: "Be yourself. Everyone else is taken." I often think of that, and it makes me smile. Maybe there's a lot more of me than I've met. Maybe there's a lot more of you than you've met. I love this abstract art you're creating as much as I love your other work. I'd buy it, put it on the wall, enjoy it and feel uplifted by it. And I don't usually like abstract art. So, for what it's worth, keep going ...
What an absolutely BEAUTIFUL reflection Jennifer! I will carry that with me all week, the idea of floating down a river towards the sea- it gives me shivers and you've unknowingly helped me unlock a current creative thing I've been puzzling over too, so thank you! I'm visiting Portland, Maine a year from now so can't wait to see it for myself. Much love!
Your abstracts are glorious, still so “light on the sea-y” I love them but also they seam to be something. I don’t know if that makes any sense… thank you so much for sharing this. Your quiet acts of kindness and soul unraveling in order to become more you resonates too. You’ve encouraged me to continue carry out those quiet acts of kindness at work and believe that they do make a difference. Feeling like goo also resonates 😂 the hope for the wings coming in their own good time encourages me too. Although to me ever since I’ve encountered you (from good ship courses) you’ve appeared to be flying 🦋 ti me.
These drawings are magic ✨
Nebulous is a Good Thing sometimes. Can't always be clear, sharp, and focused. Don't even want to be. Good for you. And yay for your silent helper angels.
🩵 🤍 💙 💚 🩵
Your work is exquisite and becoming more so. There are so many bits of life that come under Things that Long to see the Light. I have started to love abstract art these last few years. (Just stopped for a quick cuppa and now off to work uplifted with an extra spring in my step) 💕
This was such a beautiful musing. I can relate to what you said about needing a day between each day! Whew! It is okay to be different. It is okay to need time to breathe. I have to remind myself of that often.
Utterly delighted by your beautiful post, Gillian, SO real and human and please don't stop sharing the wonderful cosmic thoughts! We are indeed star dust. xx
AND I love the abstracts.
This part really resonates with me, since I experience exactly the same!: For some reason, it has been hard to tell me over-trained hands to do this (and it has been ten times harder to do this with the written word), but working in abstract has finally unlocked something. The tenderness which others have shown me, the healing that has occurred in my own cells, all these things have started to travel to my fingertips in a way that makes the lines and brushstrokes I see reflected back at me feel more like ‘home’. I don’t understand it, but I love it.
I just came across your art today and I thought I felt it deep in my being, but then I came over here and read these words. I felt them so deeply and am also feeling the need to let go in this season. I'm glad that you didn't listen to the thought that asked if you heard yourself and went ahead with publishing these words. Good luck in your mission of letting go.
I get stuck too. Absolutely stunning art! Love it!! 🤩
Your abstracts are beautiful - so peaceful and full of feeling. There is so much in your post that I could have written myself. But I see a few commenters here who identify too. Here's to us all turning to goo together.
Those pictures though 💗💗💗💗 if that’s what reflection produces well, count me in.
I am stuck All The Time. Except when I'm moving forward. 😜