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Originally posted by töbias Nice to see. What are you currently working on? I have this huge canvas at present 3.0 metres by 1.6 metres, and its a struggle being inspired enough to complete it. It about half finished 10 times over, and it will take a massive life event for the energy and power to make it a masterpiece. However, enough about my acrylic adventures, although colourful, they are a hands on experience. What sort of things inspire you?

Working on? Now that's a limitation - I have never completed work on my last art project - my life.

I find it inspiring to merely just be - it inspires thought and confidence and grace, especially when you are the least conscious of it.

Specifically, though, I have found myself to be the most active expressionist when I am inspired by children. This is not some creepy MJ thing; I used to teach TaeKwonDo and had several children's classes. They are beautiful beings capable of such cruelty and similtaneous innocence - I find perspective within them as, when you truly look, They are but shadows of adults. A children's class was a veritable microcosm for the world - the stubborn, the scared, the intrepid, and the obstinant; practically every personality trait we take for granted was represented in these young people whom most consider to not have developed personalities at all: a common fallacy. You can learn a lot about yourself and about the world around you when you work with kids - an inspiring amount. Same goes for Retail jobs

I may not do acrylics too much, but I express myself in as many ways as I feel; both visually and martially. Kinesthetics and Calisthenics have a sort of graceful poetry to them when honestly expressed: this is my art.

Music is good as well, if you feel it to be an honest form of inspiration for you.

But anyways...

Your posts are OK, Jackson - this *is* the COR after all, so just...

chill...

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There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio,
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Originally posted by Halcyon+On+On Working on? Now that's a limitation - I have never completed work on my last art project - my life. I find it inspiring to merely just be - it inspires thought and confidence and grace, especially when you are the least conscious of it. Specifically, though, I have found myself to be the most active expressionist when I am inspired by children. This is not some creepy MJ thing; I used to teach TaeKwonDo and had several children's classes. They are beautiful beings capable of such cruelty and similtaneous innocence - I find perspective within them as, when you truly look, They are but shadows of adults. A children's class was a veritable microcosm for the world - the stubborn, the scared, the intrepid, and the obstinant; practically every personality trait we take for granted was represented in these young people whom most consider to not have developed personalities at all: a common fallacy. You can learn a lot about yourself and about the world around you when you work with kids - an inspiring amount. Same goes for Retail jobs I may not do acrylics too much, but I express myself in as many ways as I feel; both visually and martially. Kinesthetics and Calisthenics have a sort of graceful poetry to them when honestly expressed: this is my art. Music is good as well, if you feel it to be an honest form of inspiration for you. But anyways... Your posts are OK, Jackson - this *is* the COR after all, so just... chill...

Ahh, a true artist often understand that their work is never complete, and what better masterpiece to have than your own life? (small bow in a polite japanese way)

Children are a special, I have a young baby sister and she is so special and I think that we would all still act like children if not for the stresses of life.

An artist need not ever paint, dance or play music, but I think that looking beneath the surface and observing the bigger, and often deeper picture, is what makes me be creative. My works are often influenced by the people in my life (I love painting with someone else and co-authoring the piece) or emotions (as a way of expressing and letting things out).

I find all aspects of social interaction a learning experience, and a parent watching a personality of a person form must just be the most imazing thing.

Your love of martial arts can lead to a mental state of enhanced perception and this would no doubt be an excellent influence on your musical experience.

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"The first stage of the great adventure has concluded happily, and here I am installed in Mexico, although I have no idea about the future" Che Guevara

This is just it: this is conscious flowing of inspiration, right here.

To see, one needs only to look.

The measure of an artist is the ability to see not only the beauty in everything, but the everything in everything. As long as the expression is honest, there can be no 'wrong' art. People have a hard time grasping this, and an even harder time utilizing/actualizing this, but when one opens one's mind to the world and allows for the conscious perception of everything without prejudice, inhibited only by subjection, one can surely realize how much beauty there is in this world. Conscious acceptance of all beings without judgement - this is true love for your reality.

Communication is expression; expression is communication. They are one and the same and yet, both have such seperate meaning for so many people. They, unfortunately, cannot honestly express themselves through communicating with others. I cannot say with great confidence that I have mastered communication in all forms, martially, musically, visually, etc... but recognition of such path gives me great feeling that I know what beauty and art lies in this world, and that I know how to reflect and share this with others.

Through communication...

I think we have created art right here, my friend

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There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio,
Than are dreamt of in your philosophy.

Thats one beautiful thing about art, your impression, or your sense of perception, is all that matters, and then someone that looks at your work looks at it with an entirely different viewpoint and the whole meaning changes. Kind of like life in general.

The journey of communication is an exciting one. There is much inspiration to be had from communiting with new people and places, experiencing new cultures and communicating with different forces.

You can often quickly tell when meeting someone the length of their journey of exchanging ideas with others and the size of the bubble they live in. It is good when common ground is the size of an oval rather than a footprint.

I like complexity, uncertainty and change, and these things attract me to places and people, and new experiences.

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"The first stage of the great adventure has concluded happily, and here I am installed in Mexico, although I have no idea about the future" Che Guevara