Something to add something about the phenomenon of getting good ideas or, more specifically, an unexpected good idea:
It may be related to a definition I heard once of magic: "A human being's change of mind." In other words, for whatever reason, we hear someone expressing a thought quite vigorously one day, and then hear the same person expressing the opposite thought the next. What brought him or her to a new consciousness, or point of view, when the person him/herself can't identify its cause? The ability to identify does not disturb me (as it might disturb a totally left-brained individual), but rather gives life extra excitement; such as, we will continue to be surprised by new understandings, new ideas, our whole lives long.
It makes living an art, not a science.
This is very good news for us right-brained types!
PW
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- Priscilla Wallace
- My first attempt to enter the world of fine art was through academic painting at the University of Texas at Austin. I learned what painting was, and, disappointingly, that I couldn’t do it. I left painting as one would leave a failed marriage. It was some years later that I approached making art through making crafts. Since then, I have come to regard fine crafts as fine art: The difference between the two exist on a theoretical level only, because a line separating them cannot be drawn—at least, not for me. In a world made of both “art” and “craft” I have found my home. My artwork seems to best be called “Crafted Paintings.” Still mindful of the principles of design, they are part collage, part mixed media painting, part constructions. They are likely to run off in any of these directions, or others, as the spirit moves them. That spirit expands most successfully when it is beautiful, whimsical, colorful, and rich. These pieces celebrate life in one aspect of it or another, and they seek to create joy in the heart of the viewer. View my art at www.artbycollage.com
Places currenly showing Priscilla's Art
- Mountain Micro Systems (828-438-9456)
- Hair and Nails Unlimited (828-433-0894)
- Valdese Heritage Arts Center (828-874-1849)
- Urban Artware (336-722-2345)
- Full Circle Arts (828-322-7545)
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I have just learned recently that I am a right-brain person. I always assumed I was left-brained because I tend to be very practical and detail oriented.
A friend sent me a test that has a dancer turning in circles, if you see her turning clockwise you are right-brained and anti-clockwise you are left-brained. It said that some people could refocus and see her reverse her direction, not me. She just kept spinning in her clockwise pattern.
I wonder if it was an accurate test. Either way, I am always happy to get a good idea whether in dream, inspired from someone else's good idea, or from an unknown source that makes you wonder how you ever thought of that in the first place. It's interesting to think about.
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