January 18, 2013
Embrace a space
I was thinking about this idea this morning. As
a budding artist needs to cultivate the art of seeing, so must I learn to look
at my space (that is, cluttered non-space!) and imagine the beauty underneath.
My plan: I shall wander about my home, possibly
slipping on the magazines from 1999 that I want to toss (just need to leaf
through them quickly…), bumping into the heavy sack of clothes I shall soon
donate (but first I need the address of the home for battered women…) and knocking
over the piles of books due to be sold, packed and sent off (more books on the
floor than on the shelves). Then I pick the most unpleasant segment (small
space = baby step), squelch the desire to scurry away and answer the following
questions-
What does this piece of space, now icky-yucky,
need to make it “sing”?
What is cluttering it up and hiding its natural
beauty?
Imagine how the space could look if everything
would be ideal. What would be even better
than that?
What two changes could I implement immediately?
Which changes does the space still need to
release the “angel from the block of marble”?
So folks, my “angel in waiting” today is the
table in my office!
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