What if you could learn to see the world in a different way; to see the ordinary in extra-ordinary ways? And what if you could free your mind in a way that allowed for more and new perspectives to show up?
What if a new way of seeing made room for the usual to show itself in different and surprising ways? This is about that process. It’s about the What If Factor…What if you could see beyond the obvious? The process of creating these images required seeing beyond what was evident…and being open to possibilities. Yes, I was creating art but each aspect of the process is transferrable to how we observe and operate in the world in general. Learning to really ‘see’ gives us more options, more opportunity, more choices, more understanding, compassion and more aha moments.
The process of getting to the What if Factor, an idea I was chasing, began with a simple question of how to demonstrate seeing the ordinary in extra-ordinary ways? This is what I have learned from the exploration of that process.
This blog is not so much about art directly as it is about noticing our world in a way that will get us to the end of our lives having actually seen it. Each post will explore aspects of why we see the way we do to what we can do to enhance our abilities to embrace or conjure new points of view if we choose. Also, what gets in our way of seeing from a different perspective? I have some thoughts as to how we can “gather” more ways of seeing and why that is so important in today’s world.
This is basically a mind dump that, although the entries are related by purpose, they will likely be random or tangential, reflecting my own way of non-linear processing. Though I personally seem to operate in a more spontaneous modality, I will make an effort to find a linear thread for those of you who are wired that way.
I will sometimes be wrong, change my mind, be persuaded by someone who can do that and say things that may be intuitively based and unproven scientifically by our standards of empirically based “truths”. We don’t grow by sharing time with people who see the world in exactly the same way. We grow by seeking out the differences. So, if your point of view is different, share it. If you can enhance my perspective on something, I look forward to it and thank you. I encourage you to participate in my feedback loop. In advance, I thank you for your thoughts.
You can study the detail to better understand the process by selecting images from Mixed Media in the Galleries of Alex Art Studio 145 HERE.
Next post: Seeing the ordinary in extraordinary ways.
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