2015 REFLECTIONS

The only permanence in this universe appears to be change. Like a river, life is an endless flow of changing information. Yet, there is a continuum that remains present in spite of change. What... or who is that?

Maybe the proper response to this observation may not be such question, or any question at all. Maybe we are meant to recognize this presence and just accept it at its face value, however is that we perceive it. Then go along with it and see where it leads us.

The problem I have with questioning is that we tend to justify or explain the unknown by using our knowledge as a base to rationalize what may be (and most often is) beyond our grasp. If we do not question then we are in a bad place because critical thinking, creativity, and innovation are replaced with conservative dogmatic mindlessness. So, “we are supposed to question everything” I hear many say who support evolutionary democratic ideologies. If I am to make a choice, I will stick to the second for sure. But if I am to liberate myself from making choices between per-determined offerings, I rather remain as the original eye observing and processing the flow of the river rather than decide what a river is.

I believe that the nature of the universe in which we exist can be compares to a little piece of cork floating in the middle of the Pacific Ocean. The ramifications from this perspective are too many to deliberate in this small page, but is an invitation to all of us to consider.

From an artist's point of view I find myself dancing between what I sense myself as being and the need to communicate. Deviant Art has been a great place to come for such purpose. Here I can release the results from my journey from whatever perspective best appears to be for the moment. Then there is feedback and a dance of exchange takes place, contributing to a flowing of change in thought, feeling, and perspective... and that is the river, that is life... that is endless continuing change of information in time and space providing us with the vehicle of permanent change.