Tag: creation

To Destroy is to Create

“The urge to destroy is also a creative urge.”
― Pablo Picasso

 

Destruction and creation are inextricably tied together. What is change if not destroying what is so that something new can take its place? If you want to destroy something utterly what you want to do is create openness where that thing currently exists. Every moment of every day, we destroy something in ourselves in order to create something new. On a physical level, its how our digestive systems work. On a mental level its part of the decision process. What is a choice but a destruction of options? For every song created, silence is destroyed. For every piece of art made, a blank canvas, paper or screen is no more. We tend to think of destruction as a negative thing and yet without it, we’d be stuck.
Blessings, G

 

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Many Paths TakenMany Paths Taken by G A Rosenberg

 

WhirlpoolWhirlpool by G A Rosenberg

Quote of the Day – December 29 2012

“You must have chaos within you to give birth to a dancing star.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

 

Good old Dionysian chaos
fantastic for creating and
for manifesting change
Order doesn’t like change very much
for it likes the status quo
Yet without change
there can be little growth
and creation may die on the branch…
I will nurture my chaotic side
embracing it as part of the whole…
chaos and order perpetually dancing
creating stars, planets, and myself…

Blessings, G

 

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Balance

Balance by G A Rosenberg

 

Red and GreenPrism EffectMandala by G A Rosenberg

Quote of the Day – October 28 2012

In a time of destruction, create something.”
― Maxine Hong Kingston

This quote puts me in mind of the blues and spirituals; of people reaching the limits of endurance and yet out of their despair, amazing song bursts out that expresses the bleak feeling that only the soul can know but also somehow exorcises and heals it. Love and jobs have been lost. People close to us have died, we become ill and yet words, music or art comes out in a way that’s truer than almost any other. Perhaps, that is an ideal I speak of and yet I’ve seen it, some people can get a hang nail and melt into a puddle of self-imposed drama while others can take the most profound pain and transform that and themselves. I know which one of those people I want to be.
Blessings, G

Soul ripped open pain
blackness so dark, it lacks name
Song redeems the heart

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Found in Stone by G A Rosenberg

 

Opalescent Ruby View by G A Rosenberg

Quote of the Day – September 7 2012

“Everything is held together with stories. That is all that is holding us together, stories and compassion.”
–Barry Lopez

Tell my story now
and restore my life’ meaning.
You carved me
marbled marvelled beauty
then breathed life
by reciting a tale
of passion restored
and love awakened
love threatened
and all but lost
and lovers trapped
in stone doomed to crack and fade.
Restore me now with words
tell my tale again
so cracks become renewed
and I shall be reborn

 –GAR

Blessings, G

 

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Chiseled But Not Faded by G A Rosenberg

 

Blue Violet Rays by G A Rosenberg

Song to the Wise

Wiccan women calling down the moon
seeking to travel
seeking to learn
Does it speak to the heart?
Does it speak to within
Does it speak to virtue
Does it speak to your sin
and what have you done
for what do you grieve?
You have lived, nothing less
than what you believe

 

Medicine man singing the sun
seeking to guide
seeking to heal
Does it come from spirit
Does it speak to your soul?
Does it bring us together?
and make the parts whole?
and what have we done
what do we believed
With you love, we have grown
A new life we must weave
–G A Rosenberg

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Expressio3 by G A Rosenberg (2010)

Quote of the Day – April 10, 2012

“Go into the arts. I’m not kidding. The arts are not a way to make a living. They are a very human way of making life more bearable. Practicing an art, no matter how well or badly, is a way to make your soul grow, for heaven’s sake. Sing in the shower. Dance to the radio. Tell stories. Write a poem to a friend, even a lousy poem. Do it as well as you possibly can. You will get an enormous reward. You will have created something.”
— Kurt Vonnegut

Why do we do what we do? Why do we as humans need to express our being either in small ways or large. Perhaps for some it is in the way we dress or the language that we use. Perhaps in what we believe how we pray or who we choose to hang around with. With every breath of our being we find new ways to express who we are. I am grateful for the talents I’ve been given (such as they are) for writing and for art. I love how I get inspired to dig deeply and create something new. Recently I came across a quote that every time we sit down to write something, it is a spiritual act in that we pray for language. I suppose the graphic corollary to this is that every time I open up Photoshop and start messing with images, I pray for aesthetics. I pray that somehow the images and symbols and photos I play with can be rearranged and combined and coloured in a way that will express something of my being.
Even if many of my pictures aren’t quite successful. Even if my words fall short of expressing what I wish them to. At least I can say that I’ve brought something new into the world and sometimes, sometimes, I know I have achieved beauty and meaning. If I can do that once than it is worth the ten thousand attempts. For all of you creative beings, of which I include everyone I’ve ever met whether or not they consider themselves an artist, I am grateful and humbled
Blessings, G

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Spirits of Love by G A Rosenberg

Stained Class 2 by G A Rosenberg

Quote of the Day – March 31 2012

“Man, the living creature, the creating individual, is always more important than any established style or system.”
–Bruce Lee

 

Yet people keep trying to classify, label and sort us to find exactly where we fit into the current systems. Of course it doesn’t work. None of us despite our best efforts can ever easily fit. The systems of labelling decay as do the labellers with it. The only systems that will work are organic ones, ones that will grow and alter with us as we do.
Blessings, G

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Shaping the Vortex by G A Rosenberg

Happy by G A Rosenberg

Blue -Drop Mandala by G A Rosenberg

Quote of the Day – January 6 2012

“No word matters. But man forgets reality and remembers words.”
― Roger Zelazny

We use our words to paint reality, not only our own but what we can of other’s worlds as well. What palette do I find available to me today? Well what subjects have come up in conversation and what depth do we find ourselves swimming in. Shallow words stay in primary colours. As we switch to weightier topics, the colours become more muted so as to not overwhelm and become garish. I may also try a finer and more subtle line making suggestions and allusions that direct rather than drag the audience. Namaste, G

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A Storm of Fish by G A Rosenberg

Fantasy Subdued by G A Rosenberg

Quote of the Day – November 15 2011

“So when you are listening to somebody, completely, attentively, then you are listening not only to the words, but also to the feeling of what is being conveyed, to the whole of it, not part of it.”
–Jiddu Krishnamurti

 

Listening to a room, empty except for love and enjoying the fullness of every moment.
the cat purrs and it becomes a melody
as does the screaming of my son’s computer in the next room
or the ring of the telephone
or the dog’s bark at the stranger at the door..
listening and allowing those moments of love
becomes an exercise in joy
–G A R

 

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Furnace of Creation by G A Rosenberg