Through One's Eyes

Thanks @Faith-and-Hope It is beautiful and layered with meaning as well paint and paper. Toi Toi Toi .. is an opera world encouragement for singing artists. Sending many toi toi TOYS to you ..lol .. I am still hoping I stumble upon you one day .. in our big busy city.

@Teej Keep your eyes open for what YOU actually stumble upon ...

We had some wonderful sculptors done by a son of a lady in the writers group. WHo really worked from picking up rubbish ...

I am feeling full after a wonderful week singing and sharing the LOVE.

🤗🤗🤗💕 @Appleblossom .....

Who would have thought the "found object" movement in art would help me recover from the very real non artistic situation of a father who had lost better places to look for things and would look for food in the garbage bin. He never gave that food to me, but my mother would often bring those moments he may have thought were private, to my attention.

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I love recycled objects as art materials @Appleblossom ..... and I think it can be healing for our world as well. Repurposing things is taking a look at them through a different lense and adjusting our perceptions. It’s not the be-all and end-all .... but I think it can have great value and healing properties ..... as you are finding. There is an earthiness and grounding to it, I think.

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The earthiness of it can be beautiful and stark in the local sculptures and in other art.

Its just good for me to express the irony about the rubbish searching @Faith-and-Hope ... as it was such a huge, uncomfortable, 'without knowing what it was all about' feeling when I was 8.

It can help me bring those thoughts to a circle and close it off, in a satisfying way. My mother was using me and trying to turn me against him, and I was uncomfortable about that too, all preconscious.

I can understand it in terms of their gender expectations of each other and the great shame we carried as a family that I took on unwittingly.

I respect their life and struggles, but also learning to respect mine.

My Dad was a tip-raider and hoarder of what others might term rubbish @Appleblossom. I don’t like wastage, but for my in-laws that is a sign of wealth after surviving wartime poverty ..... so I have felt stretched and bruised between the two. “Junk” art gives a purpose to the collection of “rubbish” - “one man’s trash is another man’s treasure” and it repurposes things that still have much life to them. I have found it both healing and bridging at the same time .... bringing beauty out of confusion and disillusion as best I can.

Hugs ..... hearing you in your situation and hoping you find comfort amongst those like-minded in spirit.

I do @Faith-and-Hope

Its been a long wait, but I do.

Taken a while to get back here @Appleblossom, @Zoe7, @Faith-and-Hope.

I am going back to appreciating art rather than creating it just now. I’m in a spirally head space and am just trying to go with the flow for now.

I thought of you when I saw this @Appleblossom, @Faith-and-Hope

I really liked it. 🤞🏻Link works

https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2018/nov/01/little-known-artist-lynne-savery-wins-worlds-richest-portrait-prize?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

@Teej The portrait itself is not something that appeals to me but it is very well done and does say a lot about the artist. Thank you for posting the article - an interesting read.

Just lovely to see YOU @Teej Thanks for uplifting story.