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Concentration #3 "Dreaming Veyda"

Below Ive included photos showing the process and a few of the phases this drawing went through.  For all intensive purposes it is complete.  That said I may return to smaller concentrated areas if they call to me for refinement.

Detail of industrial steam punk

Gives a perspective on how large
this drawing is.

Art Capacities: Strengths

Well again, depending on the inspiration motivating the imagery, different strengths are called upon.  So allow me to use Concentration #2 for this response (because again, it is somewhat contextual, the capacities are like tools in a tool box and I pull out the ones I need as I work)

Concentration #2 "Transcendence" was particularly personal and dealt with some situations in my life that have left deep scars and pain.  To work through this piece required various strengths more like at a 10 level.   Developing a "Deep Sense of Purpose" was certainly at the heart of this piece.  Every mark mattered, every image has meaning.  Working on this piece often left me breathless as I surrendered myself to the process and allowed the buried content to find its way through my fingers.

To do this, "Embracing Stillness" was also a strength I called upon for this piece.  It is in stillness that otherwise quiet and buried content might peek out and show itself.  Show itself it did. It takes courage to rest in stillness because the things we hide from (or conversely should celebrate) often reside there.  It the strength I depend upon most of the time.
 

Capacities... better late than never.

   Well. This is an interesting sheet to reflect upon because for me the capacities are contextual.  Although as a general response, I would give myself 2's all the way down (I've been doing this a long time)  there are always exceptions.  I feel its important to never rest in a place which exempts me from struggles.  To do that would likely lock me into one way of doing/experiencing and perceiving  things.  What kind of artist and further teacher, would that make me?
    So, because this is a contextual statement, I shall relate it to my concentration #3.  Over all, if I were to apply the capacities to this drawing, most would be 2's.  However, that said, this drawing is about my younger daughter.  Its is titled "Dreaming Veyda" it is a part of my series of manifestation drawings and it is a vision of her possible futures.  My second daughter is VERY different that the first. (That one the imagery flowed and was graceful in its appearance)  Veyda is so full of varying potentials I have had many an hour of pacing and talking (to myself)and sitting in front of this piece.  ITS BEEN DIFFICULT.  What I like though, is in this difficulty I KNOW there are seeds of potential.  But..... I'm having trouble tolerating the ambiguity of this piece.  That does not happen often, but because this piece is so close to my heart, it really forces me to turn inside and simultaneously step outside myself to allow the image to transform and emerge.
   I find when I struggle, it challenges me to grow.  1's are actually medicine and a growth stimulant....
   Searching for compelling images for this piece has also been a challenge.  I have found talking with Veyda, following her around, RELATING to her, (yet standing back)  it is in these moments, Ive had many "AH HA!" moments.
   SO it is with each process.