Day 4 - Spaces and spaciousness
Quotes
"The space in which we live should be for the person we are
becoming now, not for the person we were in the past." - Marie Kondo
"We need defined spaces in which to live infinite
lives." - Ben Okri
"Kindness is just love, with work boots on..."
"Success consists of going from failure to failure without
loss of enthusiasm." - Winston Churchill
Intention
To create a page about the physical and mental spaces the
transformed me will live and thrive in.
My process
I maintain an
"wish-to-ideas" book containing collages, notes and articles on my
"ideal" life. That contains
specifics. I work on it intermittently. The quotes I chose seemed to suggest
that I create an artwork that acts as a mnemonic (memory aid) keep me focussed
on working on that book regularly if I want to bring about change.
Using
watercolours I drew an elephant head, but instead of ears the elephant had
wings.
I took the
elephant head to signify "old" beliefs, ideas and qualities within
myself which were "large" and "wise" and which I needed to
respect. I also took it to represent Ganesh (the Hindu God who is the remover
of obstacles, as I grew up in India, where images of Ganesh were ubiquitous at
the time in my life when I was doing laboratory work for my Masters.) Taking
this a step further I assumed it to be a message from my subconscious that
obstacles I faced were removable.
The butterfly
ears were obvious to me, as butterflies represent transformation, and so by
using my ears to listen and learn, I could transform. The blue colour
represented calm and the pink love, while the green background represented
growth, space and spaciousness.
Journaling Prompt:
1. Does my artwork
suggest specific stories or myths that have the potential to inform and help me?
What changes
can I make to my physical space to help me grown and transform?
2. How do I
create an attitude of "mental spaciousness" in which to birth new
possibilities for myself?
Daily Wrap Up:
After
completing your artwork and journal entry, consider the following questions:
- Has my work
followed the suggested theme?
- - Is a particular motif, story or message persistently showing through in my work? What does this suggest to me?
- If not, is
there a pattern, underlying suggestion, message or idea which it has
raised.
- Is
this pattern related to my previous journal entries?
- Would I
like to follow it further? If so, how can I do that in a way which empowers me?
- How do I
feel about the work I have done? Why?
In your
journal, write up a few comments answering these questions, or else highlight
the sections of your written work that seem to suggest a pattern or feature you
would like to work on.
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