"Through a glimmer of light I see my shadow." - OJO -
Looking into a deeper reality I see the most beautiful dance of light playing in the trees....the sunlight of my soul perhaps?
I find myself asking what is real and what is shadow, there becomes a sense of illusion....a free flow form of creative juice is stirred within. How do we define the shadow from the light? How do we know it is real? In a brief flash what appeared as a solid shadow disappears as a cloud gracefully floats by. Much like our emotions, the clouds can cover what is real. The shadow is real though, it is the silhouette of the solid object....again the illusion is made visible, as we all know nothing is solid anyway!
An overwhelming need comes over me to capture the image, the shadow, the illusion, the reality......is this what being a creative soul is? The ever present need to capture and recreate the illusion? To make it visible to others through various mediums? This is our quest of artistic expression in all forms: music, dance, theater, visual, written.
The questions are never ending and the answers are all evasive.
The stirring of emotions comes through in the most obscure moments, the shadow we often look at as bad when we refer to our emotional issues can become the most important tool we have to create with. Why is it we can become so afraid of this ability to make something beautiful from our dark side? The test is to use it, and show the sunlight through the leaves, to make golden what is black....to make a masterpiece that can be shared through the hearts of all we give to on our journeys.
Is this not alchemy in it's purest state?
When the light shines brightly the shadow is shown....this feels like some sort of intangible proof that light and dark are One and that there is no need to ever second guess what is real. And in regard to human emotion the dark is just the same as the light, when we smile, we cry.....when we hurt we love.
In this beautiful sense of enlightened reality we are able to recognize our shadow.....our truth.....our light!
Find some shadows today, both within your soul and without in the visible world. Know that all is resolved in all ways (always) ...... and all is ONE!
In Lak'ech
Sunshine & Soulshine,
Joanna C. Cooke 'OJO'
P.S. Here is one of my favourite shadow photos, the light of the beautiful green earth, the emotion of two people as one, the illusion of time and space all were captured magically in the click of a camera at very high speeds....hahaha!
Looking into a deeper reality I see the most beautiful dance of light playing in the trees....the sunlight of my soul perhaps?
I find myself asking what is real and what is shadow, there becomes a sense of illusion....a free flow form of creative juice is stirred within. How do we define the shadow from the light? How do we know it is real? In a brief flash what appeared as a solid shadow disappears as a cloud gracefully floats by. Much like our emotions, the clouds can cover what is real. The shadow is real though, it is the silhouette of the solid object....again the illusion is made visible, as we all know nothing is solid anyway!
An overwhelming need comes over me to capture the image, the shadow, the illusion, the reality......is this what being a creative soul is? The ever present need to capture and recreate the illusion? To make it visible to others through various mediums? This is our quest of artistic expression in all forms: music, dance, theater, visual, written.
The questions are never ending and the answers are all evasive.
The stirring of emotions comes through in the most obscure moments, the shadow we often look at as bad when we refer to our emotional issues can become the most important tool we have to create with. Why is it we can become so afraid of this ability to make something beautiful from our dark side? The test is to use it, and show the sunlight through the leaves, to make golden what is black....to make a masterpiece that can be shared through the hearts of all we give to on our journeys.
Is this not alchemy in it's purest state?
When the light shines brightly the shadow is shown....this feels like some sort of intangible proof that light and dark are One and that there is no need to ever second guess what is real. And in regard to human emotion the dark is just the same as the light, when we smile, we cry.....when we hurt we love.
In this beautiful sense of enlightened reality we are able to recognize our shadow.....our truth.....our light!
Find some shadows today, both within your soul and without in the visible world. Know that all is resolved in all ways (always) ...... and all is ONE!
In Lak'ech
Sunshine & Soulshine,
Joanna C. Cooke 'OJO'
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