Today is Day 17 of my 30 day challenge to create intention based art. My intention today was to examine my impatience and wonder how hard it would be to take a step back and assess a situation before moving with my first reaction. What does a second response look like? Where does that impatience come from? I’m glad I don’t stuff my voice and with articulation comes responsibility to look for that second response.
Once I set that intention I grabbed my paints and just started painting. No set idea of what I would paint. And here it is. At first I thought how odd, but then I revisited my intention and it makes sense to me now.
The very first thing I painted was the darker red line, like the EKG line for a heart monitor. Then I did the series of blue, then lighter red, lighter blue till I got to the green. I feel like this is the calming blue of the second response covering the red hot of the first response until the green calm softer waves roll in. It made sense to me, and that is the point. This is my visual reminder that the second response takes work, but can be done and brings a calmer outcome.