At the Creek
29 x 21.7 cm
acrylic on paper
sue-ching you © 2008
" Good morning, oh! I guess it is good afternoon!"
I run into Ed 10 to 12pm today on the parking lot. Ed is from Knockinclash Productions, and he is at the 18th Street Studio participating project from Continuum Movement. He is going to think about what to paint and tell me later.
Today, 9/13, I got a note from Ed. He wants me to paint "an impression of a dragonfly flying through a heartiful, natural creekside."
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I have in my possession for a short time a wonderful painting by sue-ching. The painting is so full of beauty and stillness, a visual which asks me to slow down and open myself to the larger mystery in and around me.
I am quite touched by the opportunity sue-ching has given me, to dream up an idea for a painting and then turn around and give it away. Giving this painting away will be slightly more difficult than I thought, now that it is in my life. I love the colors and the magic of dragonfly it depicts. I am attached to it and now I will know what the artist feels to let go of a creation. That was the message sue-ching explained to me when I picked up the painting.
I met sue-ching near the Continuum studio. I am currently training in the field of Biodynamic Craniosacral Therapy, and our classes are taking place in the Continuum studio. The training will end in April and I proposed to my classmates that the painting could be a gift to our teacher at the last class as a token of our gratitude for the year and nine months of classes. Everyone was very enthusiastic about the painting and the gift idea. So, that's where the painting is destined to go.
I appreciate sue-ching's vision for this project. I feel like I've been drawn into the glow of a very caring person, who creates beauty and freely shares it and is commited to making bridges and ties to a larger community. It's been fun to go on her website and read about all the different people she has met and see the paintings she has done. What a surprise for me and most likely for all the strangers she has met and enlivened with her art.
Thanks so much sue-ching!
Ahhh. The peace, the stillness, the flow I feel when I sit with this beautiful painting that now lives in my living room nourishes me and all who see it. Thank you Ed for initiating the creation of this piece. Thanks to my Biodynamic Craniosacral Therapy students who presented it to me. Thanks to Sue-Ching for creating the perfect memoir for a class that was all about the qualities this painting so perfectly depicts. May we all be like the dragonfly freely traveling the open skies like a reflection of the calm waters below.
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