Permeability
"WOMAN/MAN", 2000, 12" x 3" x 1", ceramic
I watched this movie called THE WAY OF THE PEACEFUL WARRIOR”.
It’s a new-agey thing but the message and story was good.
A gymnast gets in a huge motorcycle wreck and his Olympic hopes are dashed.
He meets Nick Nolte posing as a sage/’service’ station owner who edges the boy away from his ego toward the absolute power of living in the moment.
The healing that takes place is anchored by the films’ motto: A WARRIOR IS ABOUT ABSOLUTE VULNERABILITY.
The film ended and I sat there thinking and looked up and saw these two sculptures on my wall. I have kept them for my collection and am glad I did.
They hang right next to a window hung with horizontal wooden blinds that rest half open.
After watching the movie and thinking about the importance of vulnerability, I looked up and saw the juxtaposition of the sculptures and window blinds and saw them as similar..
I thought: really the times I feel most alive are when I let the world move me as it will… when the slats of MY blinds are half open/half closed so it leaves me prepared to experience fully what I choose and ready to close them when that’s what’s called for.
Sort of : ever-at-the-ready.
I really liked thinking of these two figurative sculptures as windows; of ME as a window…
With the ultimate power of free will and choice in the decision to remain open. Or not.
I think THAT is where a sense of true safety comes from. It’s an inside job. Nobody/nothing can give it or take it.
And from that place, it seems ANYTHING is possible.
Just a thought I’m thinking this morning.
I’m gonna walk out in the world and practice..
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