Shifting Our Reality
Becoming Tangible | oil on panel | 24” x 24”| 2022 | Sold
Whether you’ve returned to pre-pandemic holiday partying amidst “regular life” or finishing up end-a-year “musts” or experiencing everyone else just spin even faster - It’s a time of year when pockets of reflection can bring us back to center.
This past week, my “all of the above” activities included a few hours of just painting. An at-the-edge state of being completely shifted into a wide-open-within reality.
Then I started weaving correlations between my own reality shift and those put forth in articles read, books perused, and observations gleaned.
I’d like to share . . .
In an epochal shift, scientists are about to confirm the dawning of a new epoch created by human existence.
A panel of experts has spent more than a decade deliberating on how, and whether, to mark a momentous new epoch in geologic time: our own. - NYT
In a knowledge shift, the book An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us by Ed Yong reflects my ever expanding wisdom gained from the animals sharing the land where I live.
The Umwelt concept tells us that all is not as it seems and that everything we experience is but a filtered version of everything that we could experience. - WSJ
In a perspective shift, history professor Heather Cox Richardson deviates from her daily history lesson on American politics in her December 17 commentary.
One of the cool things about art is that it speaks to you differently depending on what’s going on in your own life. - HCR
As always everything roots back to how making and viewing art shifts our reality . . .
in limitless ways.
