
Can joy live in darkness
Where it is dense
With blinding light,
Where clumps of small explosions
Turn around
With menace?
Can I find my true life in chaos?
No
My life is independent
And pain is happening in it.
Healing and growth through intuitive art

Can joy live in darkness
Where it is dense
With blinding light,
Where clumps of small explosions
Turn around
With menace?
Can I find my true life in chaos?
No
My life is independent
And pain is happening in it.

Thinking again about the choice of doing the blog as my direction.
It may feel as if I am an ant, crawling on a topographical map, among hills and valleys in brown and green. And it can also be seen as if I am the sky that is getting involved with the hills, the valleys and the ants.
Somehow it seems that doing the blog is the most forgiving occupation. It doesn’t hold you to a verbally defined commitment. You have seen it going in different directions. One day it was centered on poetry as it looks at life in a fluid way, not entrapped in what seems to be reality, but flowing away from boundaries of shape and time.
Another day I looked at my subconscious beliefs, as they could be detected in my artwork. These beliefs are what mask the truth.
Sometimes discussions of artworks spilled over to glimpses of how things are in these ever-changing worlds, yours and mine.
It can go anywhere.
And don’t forget that it started as a description of self-healing, and almost instructional pieces about the method that I came to find, use and share, and you could read how I viewed the sources of illness (In the ’About’ page).
This is why choosing a direction settled quite easily, in the end, into taking this blog-making as my thread, the line in the middle of my path of choosing and doing. It is a direction without a goal, but with a compass. It has no end. And I’m sure that along the way I’ll be healed from the physical ailments and more and more clearly will be living as an expression of the truth, knowingly.
For one year, when I was 21, I worked as a surveyor’s assistant in a copper mine. Two of us, the assistants, were given the geologist’s instructions to the miners about which direction to dig now, and we descended into the dark tunnels with headlights, heavy batteries attached to our belts and the surveying equipment, to mark with little metal pegs that we hammered into the rocks, which are the new directions in the different faces of the mine.
Sometimes we sneaked away to some neglected, dead end tunnel, far from the noise and sweat of the digging machines. We would sit quietly on the damp earth and turn off the lights on our helmets. We would be then in total darkness, such that you cannot find outside of the mine.
The world would disappear and we would hold our breath.
Why do people do things like this?
I think it is to find the truth. What is there, when everything is gone?
What is there?
I am moved
Because it is beautiful for me
Meaning, Something from home
Love coming through
There is an external story
Of shapes doing
Like, maybe, a tree grows on a rock
Maybe it is turning into a monster
Doing strange things
But inside
In a one two three rhythm
We go from total darkness
To the blue sky
Or a lake
It is ancient
It has always been here
And we have been looking
The outside has muscles
The inside is a whispering light
Of love
This is how we are
And this is how everything comes to us
To see the dark of night
And the blue of the sky
This is how we are.
Author’s note:
Words float on energy
Like colorful mosaic stones
On the concrete
Of a wall
The wall holds everything
The concrete flows from floor to ceiling
The stones don’t have to hold the wall
That’s the way I write
Spontaneously
The words
Float in energy
The energy connects all
The words don’t have
To do the same job
That’s why
My text is skipping
Don’t worry
Go with the energy.