Painting by Michael Eldridge
'The
object isn't to make art, it's to be in that wonderful state which
makes art inevitable'......Robert Henri
It
must have been ten years since I first came upon Henri's words. And I
can truly say they changed my life. They made me curious as to what
he meant, and more importantly, how to get into this 'wonderful
state'
And
this is where I have arrived at so far.....
A Golden bubble of Abundance
Into which I can invite in or throw out
what I need, or don't need, every day
I can invite in 'health and well being,
which ripples through my body from head to toe like a tingle of
electricity, lighting up every one of the the thirty seven trillion
cells in my body, so it becomes like a galaxy of stars in the
universe- which indeed it is.
I can throw out of my bubble the past
and present, because I have no need of these on some days, as I might
wish to be absorbed into the beauty of the moment of now, my garden
of now, if you will.
And when I walk through my garden of
now I can wonder at the sky and the clouds, the trees and the
animals, the sweet flowers and the rippling streams.
And when I walk deeper into this
garden, I become aware of a distant roar of wind, the touch of it on
my skin, a whisper in my ear. It is Creativity. And as always it is
searching for me and can only find me if I make myself visible, if I
step into the light.
And it whispers to me of wonderful
things, words, images, colours, music, song, dance.
It is lonely without us and needs us to
dance with because then it is complete and life is complete, as it
should be. And so we are almost obliged to return this gift by making
music, painting, poetry, or however and whatever we may desire to
create.
To create beyond ourselves
And we learn to connect with the good
things in life and steer away from the bad
And into our bubble we can put ,too,
other things we might need each day, such as
Fearlessness
Courage
To get us through the day's little
difficulties, because there will always be these
And we can carry our bubble, make our
bubble, whenever we desire, to both protect us and to make us glow.
It can always be created simply with the
breath of our imagination
A Golden Bubble of Abundance
Read about Michael's workshops in Italy
