It's not even what I set out to do today, it often goes like that, inspiration finds you in the doing, not sitting thinking about it, or like the Wu Wei way, that people assume the art of non-doing is the art of doing nothing, when it's more about walking and waiting for the way to appear.
I often have other pieces of paper with me and I clean my brush by just making marks, like today, like most days when I am creating.
I had 3 pieces of old book pages out that had been prepped for paint and no thought, Wu Wei or just slapping it down till inspiration came, and I started seeing a man and a women, and it was the most abstract way, that unless you were told or like for me (shown in my mind) what they were, it looked like nothing, and then I saw the third piece , a birth, and in that time a song started playing on the radio that started shining in my head to attach to these pieces, and the lyrics were "I just want someone to die for" and " I don't wanna be alone" and I saw attached to the man and woman piece respectively.
And I saw it as many relationships seem to be, of convenience, that the man just " wants someone to die for" and the woman "doesn't want to be alone" and like a friend used to say, (in not his exact words) that you can't create something of love when you don't create it in love.
And I thought about this, about the child, how the energy surrounding it's conception and birth and whole creating is not pure and not of love and how that child navigates the world and before I knew it the 3rd page was done, no thought just this freaky image that manifested serendipitous through the paint, I didn't want anything figurative, just a blob a shape, pure abstract and accidentally there was this freaky face.
That's what I adore about intuitive art, it's like it creates itself, I'm just the medium, If I let go and allow the story to tell it self, it does.
The trick is not to think.
I get weighed down in that sometimes.
Art, like everything else in life, has a society surrounding it, trying to find reasons you don't conform to it's standard, and the irony is, all the best art I've seen, never does.
Bad pictures at the end because I'm eating lukewarm macaroni and cheese and it was too dark to take the pictures but I wanted to get it out of my head, oh, and I do this to share, not to market.
"I just want someone to die for" 
" I don't wanna be alone" 
Newborn
There are some other fun anomalies in these pieces, which I'll share on another post to point out. The beauty of intuitive art! The things you find when you aren't looking.
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