New work...Carp-tastic!
Posted on Sep 21st, 2007
by 
Heather
Heather
*New* Untitled
24" x 36"
oils
Ready to hang
Hello lovelies! I have been busy this week...and I just finished this new work. I need to name it...any ideas?
Here's the quote that inspired the work;
Cry Out In Your Weakness
A dragon was pulling a bear into its terrible mouth.
A courageous man went and rescued the bear.
There are such helpers in the world,
who rush to save
anyone who cries out.
Like Mercy itself,they run toward the screaming.
And they can't be bought off.
If you were to ask one of those,
"Why did you come so quickly?"
he or she would say, "Because I heard
your helplessness."
Where lowland is,
that's where water goes.
All medicine wants
is pain to cure
And don't just ask for one mercy.
Let them flood in.
Let the sky open under your feet.
Take the cotton out of your ears,
the cotton
of consolations,
so you can hear
the sphere-music...
Accept your new good luck.
Give your weakness to one who helps.
Crying out loud
and weeping are great resources.
A nursing mother,
all she does
is wait to hear her child.
Just a little beginning-whimper
and she's there.
God created the child,
that is, your wanting
so that it may cry out,
so that milk might come.
Cry out!
Don't be stolid
and silent
with your pain.
Lament!
And let the milk
of loving flow into you.
The hard rain
and wind
are ways the cloud has
to take care of us.
Be patient.
Respond to every call
that excites your spirit.
Ignore those that make
you fearful
and sad,
that degrade you
back toward
disease and death.
-Rumi
***
I hope everyone is well.
Let me know what you think of my new work and direction...I love feedback.
Heather
http://www.badkittyartstudio.com/
24" x 36"
oils
Ready to hang
Hello lovelies! I have been busy this week...and I just finished this new work. I need to name it...any ideas?
Here's the quote that inspired the work;
Cry Out In Your Weakness
A dragon was pulling a bear into its terrible mouth.
A courageous man went and rescued the bear.
There are such helpers in the world,
who rush to save
anyone who cries out.
Like Mercy itself,they run toward the screaming.
And they can't be bought off.
If you were to ask one of those,
"Why did you come so quickly?"
he or she would say, "Because I heard
your helplessness."
Where lowland is,
that's where water goes.
All medicine wants
is pain to cure
And don't just ask for one mercy.
Let them flood in.
Let the sky open under your feet.
Take the cotton out of your ears,
the cotton
of consolations,
so you can hear
the sphere-music...
Accept your new good luck.
Give your weakness to one who helps.
Crying out loud
and weeping are great resources.
A nursing mother,
all she does
is wait to hear her child.
Just a little beginning-whimper
and she's there.
God created the child,
that is, your wanting
so that it may cry out,
so that milk might come.
Cry out!
Don't be stolid
and silent
with your pain.
Lament!
And let the milk
of loving flow into you.
The hard rain
and wind
are ways the cloud has
to take care of us.
Be patient.
Respond to every call
that excites your spirit.
Ignore those that make
you fearful
and sad,
that degrade you
back toward
disease and death.
-Rumi
***
I hope everyone is well.
Let me know what you think of my new work and direction...I love feedback.
Heather
http://www.badkittyartstudio.com/
Access: Public
art
July 2008
Beautiful, simply great and beautiful! First thing that came to my mind as to the title is, The Conference of Carps, taken from The Conference of Birds, a sufi story. Keep on listening and following your divine talent and gift. Lovely work.
Thank you for sharing Heather,
Samme
I love that name! I think that will work just right too…thank you Samme, you made my day.
That's beautiful, Heather. It makes me want to stand before it and look.
My attention was also drawn to the second line of the poem.
A dragon was pulling a bear into its terrible mouth.
I often review a list that was given to me several years ago. It's sort of a pathwalker's set of things to remember. The line in the poem reminded me of #86.
“When the fat dragon chews up your life, wallow through the regurgitation for chunks of magic.”
- Notes from the Grey Book
Cheers! - And have a good weekend! :)
Under the Lilies
I love this clandestine gathering
as Samme says, a conference of carps
like they've come together to solve something
responding immediately …
wonderful
J.K. That rocks…I am always digging through the muck to find the message, the beauty. Thanks for the feedback! And thanks for the link…I enjoyed that much…and it's inspired me too.
Jena…I just adore you…did you know that? *Grins* Love to you both!
the feelings are mutual dear Heather. again your icon says it all.
for me it's a woop, skip, jump of sheer delight, the girl over the moon. but it can also be a leap of faith or darker still, the lemming within…your work shows the depth of what it is to be human. the private pleasure of paradox .