Day 28 of Year 2
Exploring and evolving yesterday's image a bit more. I did a number of monotypes on this theme today. Something about it fascinates me. There is a particular energy running through. I want the top and bottom hands to meet and communicate but it hasn't happened yet. The desired handshake may or may not be in the cards, tomorrow will tell.
Happily, I have been feeling well enough to start walking again for the first time since spring. Making art is a full body activity. As soon as I started walking, things started to move on some larger pieces I am working on for my solo show at Clerestory Fine Art in January. So much muscle memory, intelligence, and emotions are stored in the body. It has so much to communicate beyond what our minds know. If you leave the body out of it, you are robbing yourself of rich layers of meaning. I am grateful to be moving again and deepening the communication between my mind, body, and artwork.
Closing Prayer, Thursday
By Thomas Merton from his Book of Hours
And the deepest level of communication is not communication, but communion. It is wordless. It is beyond words, and it is beyond speech, and it is beyond concept. Not that we discover a new unity. We discover an older unity. My dear, we are already one. But we imagine that we are not. And what we have to recover is our original unity. What we have to be is what we are.