gloria...and collapsing duality

HI!   

this is gloria...

two.

three.

four.

I try to sing this song I...I try to stand up but I can't find my feet...I try..I try to speak up, but only in you...

I'm complete...

gloria...

en te domine   (U2, Gloria) 

I love this song....especially from Red Rocks.  

and Bono said this....about it, as quoted in the race of angels 

"I actually really like that lyric.  It was written really quickly.  I think it expresses the thing of language again...this thing of speaking in tongues, looking for a way out of language.  'I try to sing this song...I try to stand up but I can't find my feet.'   and taking this latin thing, this hymn thing.  It's so outrageous at the end going to the full Latin whack...that still makes me smile.  It's so wonderfully mad and epic and operatic.  -- and I think what happened at that moment was very interesting:  people saw that you could actually write about a woman in the spiritual sense and that you could write about God in the sexual sense...and that was a moment.  because before that there had been a line...." 

collapse of duality.  I kind of love that concept.  Because...we define so many things...and love to put them in categories- so strictly that we don't think- what happens if the line gets erased?  What really happens? why can't both- co-exist?  People seem so ready to dig themselves in...and refuse to move because they label themselves a certain way.... It's the realization that perceived boundaries are everywhere....but...would seem....arbitrarily so....some just...don't need to be around...

the collapse....of boundaries...and what we hold on to reality....I read somewhere, that when you let go....let go of what you expect....you let go of fear...because when you expect a certain outcome...you are left with holding on to that outcome and your reality gets shaped...and fear sets in....fear of - what if that outcome doesn't happen?  people then fear....instead of being open to possibility....they fight hard for what they think things should be like....and in a sense.....struggling and fighting- grabbing hold of anything to confirm their reality....instead of just letting go....and letting the river carry them to what may be....the possibility of the unknown....collapse the boundary....of what you perceive and what could be....the collapse of the duality....of two worlds you think should be separate....but that can exist by releasing fear....

collapse the duality....for example...science and spirituality....hmmmmmm.   interesting.  :)  

I read a blog.... this one.... ONEDRAWINGDAILY.com :) 

and I love it....practice...practice....it's awesome seeing the results of the practice.  

oh...and now I'm on Tumblr, Moonstricken

and my website, here...kelemurphyarts.com

peace and love...and collapsing duality and chasing away mediocrity...

elevation or...every little thing she does is magic

hold on to your butt... (Lego Movie, Vitruvius)

and I mean that....I'm just getting warmed up....and I have a lot to say....and paint...and share...

I'm a category 6 sunshine hurricane.... that's right.....you heard me.  :) Cat 6.

sometimes....out running errands...I scan the 'hood looking for people I can help...that's right...

I change weather patterns...I should have a super hero name....

my sunshine....shines on a person....that person....starts to shine....then it's like a domino of sunshine...changing local weather cells....driving the isolated showers of assholes away.


and also....something I've given some thought to.....Elevation...yeah, like- ...and happiness metaphors...

which brings me to: direction.....spatial descriptions...and color associations...for happiness.

and our intuitive feeling of up....what's UP is good....high....light....yellow, happy

feeling bad...depressed... :( deflated

...sunken....falling....sinking....low....blue....sad...the blues....


there are cross-cultural similarities...why wouldn't there be...we feel emotions the same...cross-culturally...we just have different metaphors for them....shaped by cultural references... (Polley, C.A., 2012)

but....I'm not as much concerned...about the fact that cross-culturally, metaphors are similar to describe emotions such as happiness, or anger...or sadness....


but...the fact that we feel elated, open-hearted....the feeling you get when you are elevated....happy...higher than a kite...at dizzying heights....

amazing....to really know that feeling...

higher vibrations in energy?  yes? i'm sure there's some neuro-bio- jimmy jam about it... I can imagine emotions that we feel have real physical parallels in the natural world around us...of course they do....

but still....the elation you feel when you are completely engulfed in bliss...that feeling.....that one....is amazing.....and it is a clear feeling of lightness....contrasted with the weighty-heaviness of depression, or sadness...and as such...we are able to express it as it makes our body feel....and our soul....and our mind....

we are connected to this world through our body...as our senses take it all in...and our embodied experience is described in the most beautiful metaphors...gorgeous imagery trying to express emotions....amazing that we do this in language...it just amazes me....

yeah, like U2, Elevation

High, higher than the sun
you shoot me from a gun
I need you to elevate me here

at the corner of your lips
as the orbit of your hips
eclipse
you elevate my soul

got no self control
been living like a mole now
going down, excavation
I and I, in the sky
you make me feel like I can fly
so high

El-e-va-tion  :) 



and the blissful highs....that we should all have....come to us....but we wouldn't know them unless we felt what contrasts this.

today...

is a great day to be alive...


fantastic fucking day to be alive....soak in the sun and feel elevated...who cares how we describe it...the feeling is amazing.  may you be caught in your own sunshine hurricane...

once again....I rambled...but, it's my blog.  so i can. :)



peace...and love....and sun-shining hurricanes....

#metaphors
#happiness
#watercolors

referenced:

Deignan, A., & Potter, L. (2004). A corpus study of metaphors and metonyms in English and Italian. Journal of Pragmatics, 36(7), 1231-1252.

Polley, C. A. (2012). Metaphors for happiness in English and Mandarin Chinese(Doctoral dissertation, UNIVERSITY OF HAWAI ‘I AT MĀNOA).

tenacity....aka, Blue

i have a Scottish Terrier....he's my baby....i mean...my furry baby.  

he is a tenacious holy terror...and I love that....it's bred in him to hunt small animals and never give up....

run into a burrow...of some crazy badger...and flush it out.... maybe not necessarily...to kill it...but definitely- go head first into a badger hole...

when's the last time you went head first into a badger hole?


I know...right?  Impressive.


and terriers just...walk down the street like they own it....small and mighty...with brazen confidence...


ready to take on a dog 5 times their size...and not think twice.


I admire that...i can get behind that.  Something we all have to do...

we can't overcome obstacles by avoiding them...we need to tackle them head on....like a badger in a damn hole that won't come out...sometimes you have to flush it out...

and then kick it's ass....


Blue, the Scottish Terrier,

he kicks ass...


small and mighty.....tenacious.  Blue.

cute....but deadly.  :) like me... hahahahahhaa....just never underestimate the power of something that seems....

as benevolent as a cute...little puppy....

he's a devil in a blue collar.

he absolutely hated this pic being taken....  :)   He's a wheaten Scottie....and doesn't actually look Scottie-ish in this pic...he's a hot mess and needs his first proper scottie haircut.



peace and love....and tenacity.....and kicking badger ass.  

JAH live....rastaman live up...Bob Marley

the most beautiful curve on a woman's body...is her smile- Bob Marley...





I love that quote....

and I absolutely love Bob Marley... he makes my cells vibrate at a frequency that instantly brings me to a state of bliss.....bliss.. like....blissed out of my mind... :)  and usually when I'm painting...there's a good chance there is a Marley playing...either Ziggy or Bob.

it's just that good....

and in honor of his birthday tomorrow...I drew and painted a Marley portrait....I've wanted to for a long time....

and I will probably do another one...you know....practice practice...

but here...today...my portrait...

and my most favorite Bob Marley songs....evah.


Forever Loving Jah

Rastaman live up

Iron Lion Zion

Lively Up Yourself

Night Shift

Soul Rebel

Concrete Jungle




peace...and love....and one love...and Bob Marley, happy birthday...thanks for your beautiful voice.  



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#bobmarley
#onelove
#ziggymarley
#watercolors

watercolors...

today...

just a show...and tell.  

I finally bought some Daniel Smith watercolors....after seeing someone's demo on lunar blue  and was wowed by it...

so....my latest palette pretty much is strictly my 5 new watercolors...and whatever I do lately....is really...just using these.  

-duochrome saguaro green 

is like shimmering sand in the desert.  It looks green/gold as it squeezes out into the palette..but, when it goes on the paper...a dazzling gold....beautiful....and grainy...adding cool texture

-purpurite. 

this purple has real crushed up purpurite in it....so it also has a shimmer...and it's beautiful as a low-light...and mixes awesomely with other stuff to make cool shadows...also grainy. 

-lunar blue

lunar blue is like a combination of prussian and black grains...it is beautiful and as the watermarks play and dry...the grains swirl and land where they may. I love it. 

-mayan blue

this blue is more like a prussian blue...it doesn't have any minerals in it and it is a bit flatter...no grain effect here. 

-hematite

this is also a shimmery- grainy watercolor-and adds really great texture.  The pigment is made from crushed hematite and I absolutely love it.  It makes sense to me to use this for my black...I never used black before in my watercolor paintings...but I can get behind using this- as it's just straight up mineral. 

and there you have it....especially for Martin Rice.  

peace...and love...and new watercolors.....

  

fixing a hole...

I apologize...

that is extremely cheeky.... pun intended.  :)  i'm feeling incredibly cheeky today.  


today....i'm not sure....really... the inspiration for this was listening to Drunk in Love....by Beyonce...because it is a song of total reckless abandon...."we woke up in the kitchen...saying how the hell did this shit happen?"

which reminds me of the scene in Mr. and Mrs. Smith...broken glass....broken...everything....

but...it was the real beginning.  



but then I was going through all the music on my iPod and heard, Fixing a Hole..and the title just kinda stuck...

because...I'm fixing a hole...in my soul. :)  every damn day...discovering and shining....and reaching out of the box...and when I don't have a friend near....with wild crazy eyes...I guess I have to be my own crazy lunatic.


I know...wow....totally crazy...beyonce and beatles....today's post...brought to you by crazy Bs.

but....the take home is...sometimes you have to wake up in the kitchen and say, how the hell did this shit happen?


this is just a quick...trying to figure this out- attempt....I want to play with this....and really leap out of the box...ummmmm.  anyway....I will be playing with....ummmmm.

I'll be painting this more using different colors...


oooooh, which totally reminds me about something I read about today....


from a blog by johnhembree.com, about how we all need that friend that takes you for a crazy ride..."do not dismiss the lunatic in your life."  

He quoted Billy Joel, but I'd rather not do that.  :)  I'm just not feeling Billy Joel... (huh, weird, another B.)

Oh, that You would bless me indeed, and enlarge my territory…”  I Chronicles 4:10

I'm fixing a hole where the rain gets in....

and it really doesn't matter if I'm wrong I'm right, 
where I belong i'm right
where I belong...
see the people standing there, 
who disagree and never win, 
and wonder why they don't get in my door...

I'm painting my room in the colorful way, 
and when my mind is wandering...
there I will go.....

(Beatles, Fixing a Hole)



wow, so...this blog was all over the place...a roller coaster, if you will....summary.....roller coasters are ok....expanding your territory...yes, 

dare to push the limits...absolutely.  


peace....love...and expanding your territory....

magnificent....

I am bliss incarnate.  :)  

currently eating peanut m & m's as if they are a super food....listening to U2 and trying to find some balance...

I think the quiet and chocolate helps....and of course...my loving husband :)

I may even take a hot bath....when I hear voices of small children right now, my eye twitches...so I think, I need a little break...to reconnect...with...

bliss...and of course, 

U
:) 
2 

my favorite song on No Line On the Horizon...is Magnificent....which just....is.

I was born...I was born to be with you....
in this space and time...
after that...and ever after- I haven't had a clue..only to break rhyme
this foolishness can leave  heart black and blue, oh...oh....


only love, only love can leave such a mark..

but only love...only love can heal such a scar...


Justified, till we die...you and I will magnify....oh. oh...

(U2, Magnificent)


just...wow.

my all time favorite U2 songs:  A Sort of Homecoming, Bullet the Blue Sky,  Desire, A Man and a Woman, Unforgettable Fire....oh, and Bad, and Electric Co. (especially from Under a Blood Red Sky), and I Threw A Brick Through a Window....

oh...man...Unforgettable Fire....oh...the music and lyrics....just awesome to revisit these....

I just become in an enchanted trance with this...



walk on by, walk on through, so sad to besiege your love, oh...hang on. 

Stay this time, stay tonight in a lie, 
I'm only asking, but I, i think you know...
Come on take me away, come on take me away, 
Come on take me home....home again....

(best part here vvvvvvvvvvvvvv)

and if the mountains should crumble 
or disappear into the sea, not a tear, no not I. 

  

and Bad....sigh....Bad.  oh...man...

if I could, you know I would, 
I would let it go...this desperation, dislocation, separation, condemnation, revelation, in temptation, isolation, desolation, 
let it go....and so fade away, to let it go...

I'm wide awake, I'm wide awake, 
I'm not sleeping....oh, no....

peace and love...and letting go...and getting lost in a song....

no one is blinder...than he who will not see... (U2) 

#U2
#watercolors
#magnificent