by Lolo | Aug 26, 2017 | Love
To love without knowing how to love wounds the person we love .
The question is what is love? is it a feeling? an action or is it something we simply can’t define ?
According to Buddhist master Thich Nhat Hanh it simply a way of being , In fact , in a simply worded but profound passage Thich Nhat Hanh says that the way of love is one of the most complex and rewarding human experiences.
Understanding is love’s other name in other words to love another is to fully understand his or her suffering. After all understanding is what everyone needs .
A good example is :
“If you pour a handful of salt into a cup of water, the water becomes undrinkable. But if you pour the salt into a river, people can continue to draw the water to cook, wash, and drink. The river is immense, and it has the capacity to receive, embrace, and transform. When our hearts are small, our understanding and compassion are limited, and we suffer. We can’t accept or tolerate others and their shortcomings, and we demand that they change. But when our hearts expand, these same things don’t make us suffer anymore. We have a lot of understanding and compassion and can embrace others. We accept others as they are, and then they have a chance to transform.”
How can we commit to understanding each other’s suffering apparently this all starts with our own happiness
“When we feed and support our own happiness, we are nourishing our ability to love. That’s why to love means to learn the art of nourishing our happiness. Understanding someone’s suffering is the best gift you can give another person. Understanding is love’s other name. If you don’t understand, you can’t love.”
yet Thich Nhat Hanh says the dynamic interaction love must also be learned
“If our parents didn’t love and understand each other, how are we to know what love looks like? … The most precious inheritance that parents can give their children is their own happiness. Our parents may be able to leave us money, houses, and land, but they may not be happy people. If we have happy parents, we have received the richest inheritance of all.”
LoveMeXXXX
by Lolo | Aug 23, 2017 | Love
The third layer where supposedly miracles happen..
by Lolo | Aug 23, 2017 | Love
Where the 2 other styles blend in like a welcome stranger
by Lolo | Aug 23, 2017 | Love
The style which fits the Reflected Art
by Lolo | Aug 21, 2017 | Love
My story stays always the same, I paint on intuition ,
What does it actually mean ‘on intuition’ ?,.
Lately it almost sounds like a ‘fashionable ‘ ‘hip’ thing to do.
Like going to Ibiza on Holiday.
It is far from that , and much more complicated than you think .
It is much easier to walk to your work and know what to do, what to paint, what to draw or who to write or to ask your boss what to do.
I am pulled to my atelier, randomly, I put on the music, try to be on that frequency and paint , just paint , no conscious thoughts, grab colours paint and something unfolds.
For those who follow me a little bit longer hopefully a clear story.
When you paint like I do it is very hard to keep a certain style, like some artist choose to paint only faces , or only abstract, very recognisable like a housebrand.
I wouldn’t be able to commit myself to such a thing.
A stigma which wouldn’t fit me anyway.
One of the biggest reasons I am an artist, is that I can express myself in hundreds ways.
No-one has the same mood everyday…the same counts for me and so automatically for my work.
There is a change though and I see clearly that I can categorise my work in 3 different styles.
To satisfy the understandable question to be a little bit more recognisable I decided to categorise my work in 3 styles, layers more to say.
The Explanation:
The layers of life and experiences,
Compare it to life, we all have micro and macro problems, the first layer is the one where we have solvable daily issues the here and the now, the fast forward, the up to the minute things.
The second, the longer and stronger issues to be hopefully solved over time, the ones which makes who you are, or how you react on things. The one where you have self reflection and hopefully get to know yourself, your flaws, minuses and pluses, the good and the bad.
And the third, the one that beholds your heart , your soul , the moments or memories which can make you immensely happy or extremely sad , the feelings or situations which you can feel in your stomach, either butterflies or when negative sick in your stomach.
So back to my art the first for me is the here and the now, the impact the news in the news paper has on me , a hype , contemporary art, my more ‘cobra’ figurative colourful style .
The direct visible effects of life just experienced, fast art , move forward, if there was a name for it in the direction of ‘Reflected art ‘I would call it that .
Then the second it is more my ‘abstract’ work , the earthy person in me, the base of my being , the mother , the overthinking one.
The hermit who finally let the 2 other layers or styles blend in as a welcome stranger with a touch of color, a shiny coating or a figurative suggestive line .
The third is the deepest, abstruse and esoteric one, the one that comes from the heart , what the soul is experiencing or experienced , the private one, where the scorpio keeps her secrets , the place where the scorpio can turn into an eagle and rises above her own emotions and is ready to share it through a painting, If there was a official name for it I would like to call it ‘Angelic’
LoveMeXXXX
