Afternoon Silhouette - a photo on Flickriver

www.youtube.com/watch?v=QIJT-XPayDE - Liiquid Soul - Chris Standring

"One eye sees, the other feels." - Paul Klee (Swiss/German Artist)

They are two parts of a whole. Yin and Yang.

When I was younger I used to think I was in control of both activities, but as I have aged I know I am not. And that is ok with me.

"The way to do is to be; the way to be is to do." - Lao Tzu

I've been drawing, painting and taking photographs since I was about nine years old. I have always seen images everywhere. Throughout my life that has been both constant and un-ending - but, oddly enough, never overwhelming.

It has been, and remains, a source of joy and comfort.

This image was just shadows on a wall, a plant in a glass vase, a blue ceramic pot, sitting momentarily in the passing afternoon sun. It has been sitting there - un-noticed - for. ever.

Then one eye sees, the other feels. (Side note: the people who live in this house didn't recognize what part of the house this is in. They pass it everyday.) :-)

When I was in art school, and on occasion since, friends have said to me, "I wish I could see what you see." I wanted to say something profound or hopeful, cute or quotable, but I don't know how I see what I see.

If all children are creative - seeing and feeling as artists, singers, dancers, poets and more (and I think they are) - and "the challenge is to stay that way as an adult," - Picasso, then what happens to it? Where does it go? Is it recoverable or lost forever?

I like to think seeing and feeling in artistic ways are always available, anywhere, anytime to most of us. As adults we might have to justify that to ourselves and be willing to find value in it. Perhaps then one might be open to work at it a bit. I have no doubt that creative "seeing and feeling" is a spirit that lives as a possibility within most of us. Might you be willing to "see with one eye, and feel with the other" a little each day?

Textures courtesy:
Skeletalmess - www.flickr.com/photos/skeletalmess/albums
FlyPaper Textures - www.flickr.com/groups/flypapertextures/pool/

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Taken on: May 29, 2020

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