Why do you create? At first you'll respond with, "I create because I'm an artist." That would be true for many but not all. However, I'd like you to take it a step further.
Why do you create? Is there a story to be told? Did you have an experience that is seeping out of your pores and your art expels it from your body? Is it a celebration you want to share? There is something beyond just the fact that you're an artist. We spiritual beings having a human experience; we're all artists.
Why do you create? Is there a story to be told? Did you have an experience that is seeping out of your pores and your art expels it from your body? Is it a celebration you want to share? There is something beyond just the fact that you're an artist. We spiritual beings having a human experience; we're all artists.
Romare Bearden shared, "An artist is an art lover who finds that in all the art he sees, something is missing; to put there what he feels is missing becomes the center of his life's work." The mind is powerful and is in a state of flux when there are gaps in experiences.
We want wholeness, completion, and resolution. Our creative energies are expansive and strive to fill in the gaps. In fact, according to Bearden the gaps are our motivation and inspiration. The truth is that we can all spend the rest of our lives filling in the gaps.
The great thing about filling in the gaps is what we're never without a catalyst to create. Art can serve as a means to making the necessary connections between ideas or feelings that are floating out there on their own. In London, when traveling on the tube, stenciled on the ground is "mind the gap".
What if you applied that saying to your own work? Being mindful of the gap brings awareness to your work. It allows you to share your inner healing and wholeness with the world and the Universe.
The gaps aren't a hindrance to your healing process. They are the bridges between where you are and where you want to be in the healing arena. The gap provides you the impetus to instill hope on your health and healing journey.
When you provide yourself with the art of possibility, we notice that the gap makes you stretch. It requires that you look beyond the obvious and moves you toward inner expansion through outward expression. What will it take to fill in the gaps?
Bearden's insight was profound. Exploring the gap allows us to develop a plethora or opportunities. We're looking toward the future. The gap is a road-map on your journey to bountiful. What will you do with your gap?
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