The Past is Now
Lately I have been doing some personal housecleaning. Reviewing old files, remembering times past, shredding and letting go. I do not only mean old bank statements or scrubbing floors either.
We all carry a great deal of our past with us. Some of it is baggage and others are lessons learned or changes made. There are things we discover in reality were differant than we have remembered. Since I have moved many times durning my lifetime I am not a big saver of things. What I found out recently is that a bit of what I do save has a heavy emotional load that should be released. Not to say this will give us an internal clean slate. Whether we keep the bits and pieces of our past or not. Who we are and what we have become stays. We are who we are as a person and as an artist because of where we have been, what we done, or not done; and the interactions we experienced. They are the layers of our lives. We are the past, present and our future all at this same moment. So keep your old art works, sell them or throw them away. A few old masters used to burn thiers. But never loose sight that for good or not; who you are and what you will create today could not exist if you had not taken the paths you did. Embrace that. Rejoice and give thanks for surviving all you did. AND MOVE ON! Put paint to canvas or pen to paper and start creating your tomorrows.
We all carry a great deal of our past with us. Some of it is baggage and others are lessons learned or changes made. There are things we discover in reality were differant than we have remembered. Since I have moved many times durning my lifetime I am not a big saver of things. What I found out recently is that a bit of what I do save has a heavy emotional load that should be released. Not to say this will give us an internal clean slate. Whether we keep the bits and pieces of our past or not. Who we are and what we have become stays. We are who we are as a person and as an artist because of where we have been, what we done, or not done; and the interactions we experienced. They are the layers of our lives. We are the past, present and our future all at this same moment. So keep your old art works, sell them or throw them away. A few old masters used to burn thiers. But never loose sight that for good or not; who you are and what you will create today could not exist if you had not taken the paths you did. Embrace that. Rejoice and give thanks for surviving all you did. AND MOVE ON! Put paint to canvas or pen to paper and start creating your tomorrows.
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