Odilon Redon

“The sense of mystery is a matter of being all the time amid the equivocal, in double and triple aspects, and hints of aspects (images within images), forms which are coming to birth, or which will come to birth according to the state of mind of the observer.”

-Odilon Redon, Notes to Himself

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Odilon Redon The Grinning Spider 1881 via Galleryintell.com 

The place we go to find ourselves is often the place we fear the most. We procrastinate and put that place where we dwell on hold for when life gets easier and when things feel more comfortable. The only thing is we as humans hide pieces ourselves in the most uncomfortable places.

 

 

 

 

To Do’s

Here’s some poetry only a writer could love. An example of my love hate relationship with editing. But it must be done!

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Can you backspace

Center space

Use less commas

But add one here,

Double space and

Don’t forget

1 inch Indent and margins

And of course

Know your genre

Characters and places

This way that way

By the way

Great story!  

 

-Saschia Johnson

 

“To write is human but to edit is divine.”
-Stephen King

 

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Freedom in the circle

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Yes, there’s freedom there

but not from the flesh and never from grave

all your rules and discrepancies are DECLINED

but don’t expect a polite refusal.

when your cards fall short be prepared to be hounded

intellectual freedom,

whispering demons

narcissistic inequality,

teeth in your decaying flesh and hands around your neck

escape artists banging down your door

fuzzy vaginas dicks short and shriveled

The narrow walk through the eye of the needle

Yes, there’s freedom there

but not from the flesh and never from grave

 

 

Up and coming collection titled:’

Oppressed Delinquents

“When oppressed humans aren’t given the proper tools to fight, they find their own, whether you agree with it or not.”

She is

She’s got magic under her fingertips

waiting to be unleashed

She glances up

and manipulates the entire sea

when she cries

a black hole of sadness warps everything in her path.

When she’s happy as a Daisy the waters recede

which could cause drought for days and days

the pendulum swings from her to I

causing down pours and sunny days

seasons placed in the hands of her feelings

 

-Saschia Johnson

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16 things that are part of the creative process

 

These are in no particular order. And are all tiny pieces that go into creating a masterpiece. “Creating a masterpiece” can be a general term, but ideally the whole thing is a process. Here’s a few things I feel go into my own writing-a-masterpiece process.

  1. Talking with like-minded people
  2. Going on adventures
  3. Curiosity
  4. Focus
  5. Determination
  6. Innovation
  7. Rest
  8. Solitude
  9. Meditation
  10. Music
  11. Research and self study
  12. Differing opinions/ contradiction
  13. That one thing that keeps you going
  14. Experimentation
  15. Mistakes
  16. and for me Tea

 

 

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Last week’s list

6 reasons why you should write today.

She’s deep though

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(Before she rids all things beauty)

There she was dressed to the T

Name brand from head to toe: Jeans snug, just a kiss of cleavage showing

She’s mastered the art of beauty

Because she’s terrible at everything else and her mind’s not like the others

She hides behind mesmerizing curves, and charms, and niceness

Why?

because not many have the time to navigate her thoughts

Her true ideas, overthought, are usually rejected.

Her ability to make sense doesn’t come as easy as

tight shirts, fitted pants, and a nice purse

 

 

-Saschia Johnson

 

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James Abbott McNeill Whistler

 

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Whistlers early and consistent use of musical titles ‘nocturnes’, ‘symphonies’ and ‘arrangements’, helped to confirm the impression that the visual arts ought to aspire towards the condition of music; and his decorative ideas- such as the use of a peacock- feather pattern in the room which he painted for his patron F.R. Leyland- were extensively plagiarized.

According to Edward Lucie-Smith in his book titled Symbolist Art, “There is some current disposition to underrate Whistler and write him off as an essentially isolated artist. To do this is to distort the history of the art of his time, in which he was, and remained an influential, even central, figure.” I think very often we as artists forget how much effort it takes to stay in solitude to complete a piece. Outside of the art world they may never understand the amount of copious hours we spend hacking away at our projects. If you’re all in, it’s a constant battle to stay focused and build your piece into something you can be proud of. Even here with Whistler people are ready to write him off as an isolated artist, but how we work on our art is how we inspire others and help other creators of our time. This is being part of something. So those of you who are struggling to focus because people say you’re spending too much isolated time on your masterpiece, you’re part of the crowd and you are not alone.

 

 

You can check out where I got the pics from here:

Wikimedia Commons

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and here”

Encyclopedia Britannica

https://www.britannica.com/biography/James-McNeill-Whistler