At 11:37 AM 11/20/2007, you wrote: >collaborative stuff! wonderful and great for ego abandonment. >I do this quite a bit with other artists in my area. >though I think with Marsha's ability to burn her journals, she >doesn't much have trouble with ego abandonment (hope you don't mind my >quick jumping in here on this, marsha...) > >Marsha - liked your observations about going off into the cave to work. > >sometimes I think that being able to create my art (paint & photograph) >is one of the only things that makes everything about my >'sense of self and being' seem most real and at peace and at >the same time it's hard BUT so rewarding when I can REALLY get >at the truth of what I'm experiencing and represent it visually. > >I think that's all I really need to do - get at these truths for myself >only; there is an ego gratification when someone else feels >rewarded by looking at my work - which is nice AND it seems >important - in a way - to create something that not only >has communicated my own truths to myself, but also some >universal truths to other people. > >I think that learning more about a soul searching journey through the >exploration of art is important in a universal way - so to attempt >to share my work with others in an effort to communicate something >REAL is important to me. > >Doesn't the Dalai Lama say it's important to SHARE what we >know with each other - (and I know this is a very broad generalization - >we have to share what we know without being arrogant or without attempting >to provoke jealousy or over intellectualizing) it's about sharing >love and something positive about the human journey with each other >I think. > >Happy Thanksgiving to all as well! > >Margaret
Greetings Margaret, I appreciate what you are saying about sharing, but everything is already connected to everything. This is the best I can do at the moment. Marsha Moq_Discuss mailing list Listinfo, Unsubscribing etc. http://lists.moqtalk.org/listinfo.cgi/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org Archives: http://lists.moqtalk.org/pipermail/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org/ http://moq.org.uk/pipermail/moq_discuss_archive/
