time to rewrite the future
I was a therapist who's art was with words, when my four year old son boarded the silver bird for the month that took him to another country 6,000 miles away. This would be his first trip of many. As a recovering yogi, exiting the spiritual world, and a therapist of two plus decades, in her own transition, riding the wings of marital separation and post pandemic international relocation, it was time for a new kind of therapy. So I surrendered to the heed of what became my iNiTiATiON - a 48 x 60 inch acrylic, mixed media on canvas - and was schlepped through it's portal, to paint my new reality. Through the silence of that blank canvas my forty nine year old, grieving heart was transformed through the arms of art. Old doors closed, new doors opened and an entirely new world revealed itself. My iNiTiATiON had begun. It was time to paint.
Then, and now, I still don't have a vision before I start to paint; it's not me who's painting. Each layer of paint, a conversation with creativity, unfurling a life of it's own; another emergence of the great mystery unfurling, dreaming life into existence, one step at a time, from the inside out. Void of art-school rules, just a dialogue with my own source energy, pouring through, until the canvas stops talking, and the moment is complete; a new creation staring me in the eye, telling a story I've only just now heard.
Two years later, I can't stop painting. I'm in continual dialogue with my future self who is leading the way... and it just pours through. I'm grateful for this gift of the self-guided, mixed media, contemporary abstract artist who is this new version of me rewriting the future through art.
carmel boone
Read more about how Carmel Boone came about here.
follow your 'yes'
in these rapidly changing times
i find profound freedom
in learning to trust
what I call
the one step plan
intuitive knowing
then becomes
not knowing
whats going to happen next
but knowing
that what is happening
is the natural
spontaneous
unfurlingĀ
of self
as nature
so instead
of seeking
to know
where any painting
or path in life
is leading
self doubt becomes inquiry
and a conversation ensues
where i simply listen
and trust
that frond by frond
through the yes's
and the no's
that guide me
in each now moment
that the right thing
is always happening
even when it doesn't seem so
and at some point
the inner muse will tell me
to put the paint brush down
and sign it
.... then the story is told
and my heart is full
having been proved to again
that the real teachings
come from within