when the time stand still
Yesterday is far away and tomorrow is beyond the horizon.
This is my favor time to browse art of RB. I waited for all week.
Oh, It’s already 1pm.
I love to watch “so you think you can dance” if you are not living in US you’ll know what I mean.
When the dancers dance really well, I know they don’t hear the noise from audience or see the lights coming at them from everywhere. All they know is the music and the character they are in. Their body, the music and the character become one. They don’t listen to the music or count the rhythm. Their body moves before they think. They feel the melody, the rhythm, the story and they become the melody, the rhythm and the character.
I wish I can tell you better. I’m not a writer or the dancer.
But I feel empathy with the dancers.
Before, during and after many difficult moment of doing the creative art there is the time all fall in together and become one. My objective, color, contour and emotion, small and large they start to work for me. The time stops in that moment. In this moment nothing else is matter but me and the painting in the world.
My mother used to sew Kimono.
One spring day I was watching she is sewing. The silver thread slide through silk fabric as if it has the life of it’s own. She said to me,
” you had to sew the thread like its become part of the fabric.”
Janis Zroback
Very insightful words… art is always like a dance…brush and paint moving in rythm across the paper…
TokikoAnderson replied
Yeh, you and I live for that moment:)
Michele Randell
Being in the moment Tokiko is the essence of life…..
.When I used to paint, time would disappear and if really in the moment everything else would slide away and not exist..no concept of time or place…..just being and resonating with that experience and every vibration was felt in a microcosm of time
It is the same for the dancers…experiencing and being
“Yesterday is far away and tommorrow is beyond the horizon” ....such pureness in what you write!
Only the now is important…...... if we are truly blessed we embrace this fully in our lives
Being at one with life just like the silver thread your Mother spoke of.
You should write more Tokiko :)
xx
TokikoAnderson replied
you bring tears in my eyes.
with your edition I can write more because you clear my point sooo
much more beatiful.
Thank you Michele
annamora
....... yes it is just that …... uniting universal dance …kind of thing …..
.... so nice to read your beautiful words today morning Tokiko :)
TokikoAnderson replied
Thank you.
I think some of us have lot to show but not comfortable writing. We visualize our feelings before put them in words. But there is so much I want to share.
Jeannie Peters
very well said, art comes in many forms, everything is beautiful in its own way.
TokikoAnderson replied
So true.
LoriSmaltz
Very wise mother. Nice.
TokikoAnderson replied
I wish I was nicer to her:)