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Explore with a piece of paper…it will change your life

Posted on by philipdodson

Explore with a piece of paper…it will change your life

If we want to free ourselves to open up, let go and allow ourselves to flourish from our soul then grab a large piece of paper and whatever pens, pencils, crayons, paints, or other stuff like that lying around and just start to make a mark on the paper.

Do not think it, feel it. Do not think about an outcome, do not worry about what it looks like. We instinctively know what to put on the paper when we align with our feelings and not with our thoughts.

When we have got going then go to what we enjoy and like on the paper and explore more of that. There are no art police looking in, there is no one judging, only ourselves if we go into our thoughts. Just let go and create what you feel.

Then we can apply this process to anything in life…music, writing, talking, exercise, work, cooking, and the choices we make.

We are the captain of our ship, we decide where it sails, we are the creator of our choices, we are the creativity of our lives…we hold back because of our fears and conditioning.

When we just do what we feel in this moment and let go, who knows where our choices will take us?

What is art?

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All art is useless, I think Oscar Wilde said that.

A fork is useful but I could live without a fork. Art is use-less but I couldn’t live without it.

We slave away in our so called ‘proper’ jobs doing very important stuff to earn lots of money. We’re told at school and by parents that the arts aren’t important and we need to focus on math, science etc so we can get those ‘proper’ jobs.

Then what do we spend our money on from our proper jobs? Well, art for the house, music to listen to, we go to watch a play, we go to the cinema to watch a film, we watch TV, we watch YouTube, we buy a beautifully designed and crafted piece of furniture, we pay an architect to design our new house, we buy a beautifully designed fancy car that looks amazing and so on.

Yep, we work hard to spend our money on stuff that artists, musicians, actresses, designers, architects, creative writers, and so on, who have worked tirelessly as an artist to bring you their art to entertain you or for your enjoyment.

Art is imperfect and it is the imperfect that we love in life, the cracks are how the light gets in.

Useful things are just that, utilitarian and functional. Art is the life and soul of the party, the reason to be alive.

Art is life and without it life would be just useful. I want a use-less life filled with art.