Today,
Our final chapter,
I've asked you all to return to your dry material.
I've chosen to,
And to,
I've chosen to use the same exact dry material I used on the first day,
But you are welcome to pick up something different,
A different dry material.
We're going to go right back to that beginning place,
And this week I am sure a lot of you through this process have been uncomfortable,
Curious,
Of course,
But uncomfortable,
Challenged,
Maybe even disgruntled,
So thank you first for going with me on this journey and sticking to it.
The point isn't to make you uncomfortable,
It has been to make you curious,
To make you do things in a different way so that different parts of you are revealed.
We can so often in our lives get into ruts,
And we don't recognize them as ruts,
They're habits and patterns and schedules and that sort of thing,
But without attention,
Conscious attention to some of them,
We can lose ourselves in that repetitiveness without understanding why they have become such a pattern.
So this whole week is kind of poking at that,
To take you out of the way you usually show up in the studio and give it a different resonance.
In no way,
Everyone,
In no way is this a finished piece,
And if it is for you,
Fabulous,
But that,
Again,
Wasn't the intention.
But I'm hoping it becomes for you a finished piece at some point.
I suspect mine will.
I see elements of what we have done all week,
Things I have developed and processed as,
Again,
That word,
Curiosities that have piqued my interest and I look forward to exploring them more.
I hope you,
Like I said,
I hope you have some of that as well.
And if you don't,
Don't pitch it in the bin.
Don't throw it away.
Set it aside.
Set it aside.
Even bury it under a pile of so many other things so that in a month,
A year,
Ten years,
For goodness sakes,
You come back to it and are amazed and wondrous at what you did that so long ago.
And it'll have a new voice speaking to you at that point.
I guarantee it.
That's an easy guarantee,
Promise,
Whatever you want to say.
Because I've had it happen to me too many times over and over in my creative journey that something I thought was rubbish,
When re-exposing myself to it after time has passed and I've lost that initial reaction,
Because oftentimes it's an energetic at the time.
And when you come back to it with new energy,
It changes how you see it.
So it happens to me over and over in my creative experience and I never lose the faith that a piece can become something.
That doesn't mean nothing goes in the rubbish.
Stuff does.
But don't let it be this.
It's not time yet.
It hasn't had its time with you enough.
So all right.
We start with a thought bubble.
Krishnamurti is the composer of this thought bubble.
Krishnamurti.
The ability to observe without evaluating is the highest form of intelligence.
The ability to observe without evaluating is the highest form of intelligence.
Now I can tell you I don't completely agree with that statement,
But I chose it because it leads me to what I said will be our next thought bubble session in three weeks.
In that,
Well actually it piqued my desire to do things the way I want to for the next quick shot,
Which is to of course tie in that pure observation,
But also bring in the intellectual evaluation.
So thank you Krishnamurti for prompting that.
Okay,
Shall we begin everybody?
Let's connect everybody.
I'm going to stay seated.
It feels good here.
I have contact points with my feet,
My behind,
And in this case my arms and hands.
Close your eyes and give your other senses space.
Vision is so important to the human.
We use it,
Trusting it above,
Wow,
Probably all our other senses,
But most definitely over intuition,
Which is a darn shame.
So closing down that sensory perception,
The visual sensory perception for just a moment every day,
Consciously helps us,
Me,
Draw to those spaces in me that are the other senses heightening.
So do the same.
Go through those other senses,
Your ears,
Hearing,
Identify with your mind what that sense is perceiving in close proximity,
In mid-distance,
Maybe even far,
And the nose.
I've had rubbing alcohol out today,
I baked a batch of cookies,
These sense intermingle just inside my nostrils.
And taste,
Taste is always there.
We think it comes into play when we put something into our mouth,
But it's always there.
What do you taste when you're not deliberately tasting something?
And touch,
Which is where we began,
The feet on the floor,
The behind in the seat,
The arms or hands over the surface in which we're going to create.
What's that like,
Warm or cold,
Rough or smooth,
Firm or soft?
And finally,
Most important,
That sixth sense,
The knowingness,
The intuition that can speak so quickly sometimes that it's fleeting and in our hurried lives we don't even see it go by.
Tune in,
Perhaps no message,
You don't need to ask or search for it,
It tends to go quiet if you do,
But if you have a question to ask,
Or a space that needs filling,
Or a response you hope will rise,
Mention it and let it go.
And then stay open to that space where it will show up,
The answer you seek,
The response you hope to find.
All right,
Today we'll go back to that five minutes.
I've forgotten my phone,
I have no idea where it is,
So my voice will tell us when the five minutes is up.
So prepare yourself,
Find your ground,
Your equilibrium,
Hold the tool in hand,
And either way you decide,
Is it with eyes closed and let intuition do its speaking,
Or is it bringing some intellect in,
Using your visual perceptions,
And more deliberately using your drawing tool?
You decide.
Five minutes,
Let's begin.
All right,
It only takes five minutes everyone,
I know it seems incomprehensible,
You read about artists,
We have notions about artists,
What it takes and how they become,
It can thwart the sense of ourselves that wants to go there,
We can freeze with the apprehension of being able to ever get somewhere like that,
Like them,
But that's not the point.
Five minutes,
Quick shots,
Every day,
It's where you start.
From there it takes its own life,
Starts to grow and develop and bloom in its own energy,
It's quite remarkable.
All right everybody,
That's it,
Five days,
Quick shots this week,
It's been good.
I hope you enjoyed it,
If nothing else,
And I hope it becomes something for you,
The time of course,
The effort of course,
But the actual piece as well.
In about a week,
So you all can anticipate it,
When we get back together again.
Oh good Lana,
Great.
All right,
Over and out everybody,
Thank you very much.
