Mis-takes and Remakes
This is about letting go and letting IT happen. I opened a notebook to a new page already marked with colorful bleed throughs. I used those marks as a prompt for a new drawing, to highlight not hide them, I drew black stone shapes overlapping and black echo lines around them. I was in the zone.
I grabbed another paper to absorb the bleed through of this drawing when I added Sharpie marker colors. After a while I realized that my backup sheet still had wet glue from previous collage work. So my drawing got stuck in places, and while trying to get it unstuck, I tore the pretty drawing, which I thought was two thirds done. Ruh roh!
Translate this to anything you are trying to make or do. Something happens and you have to let go of any attachment to your original intentions and quickly pivot. What does the thing want you to do now? What does It really want to be? And how can you be a useful vehicle for Its transformation?
Swearing and tearing, I dismembered the drawing. I started with a fresh page and began gluing these fragments down in a new way. I drew some more, ripped and layered, added color and lines, and stopped when I felt the right balance. More energy and rhythm and interconnection, all fueled by my frustration at making a stupid mis-take. A dynamism wanted to come through that wasn’t in the original drawing.
If only I could really trust this process in other areas of life. When things get messy in relationships, when projects get bogged down, when there is just no flow. That’s when disruptions can bring renewal,
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JOURNALING
Your inner Visionary shows you what is true, when it’s true, but often we don’t get or heed the message. Invite your inner Visionary to guide you in this journaling.
These questions will have you reflecting on where in your creative, healing process you need to pivot. Obstacles offer a chance to open up to what really wants to be made manifest. Where do your relationships want to grow? What does your project really want to become?
What relationship issues have flared up to have you reexamine your connection? What projects have stalled, gone off the rails, or are just not working?
Revisit your baseline intentions, and if they’re outgrown, you can create new ones for your relationships and projects.
What can be salvaged and built upon in greater alignment with your current intentions?
What needs to be composted?
Note where you’re frustrated, irritated, pissed off, or annoyed. Tap into the power of anger held there and transmute it to serve what’s next.
Let me know what you discover. It could be fruitful material for healing work with me.
