Just a brief moment to share...
There is this a-maaaazing woman, Simone, who is over at Freckled Brilliance and with whom I'm hoping to share some healing space in the near future. She's on Twitter (with a really fun and bouncy persona) and posted the following:
"Everything is a pattern! Patterns are re-write-able!" - @simonethinks
To which I immediately responded, as I'm a big pattern-hunter myself. (My old LiveJournal used to list "pattern hunting" as an interest.) She answered back, and somehow, in the exchange I pulled a great analogy out of my ass because she had spawned the Idea.
Internal habits and patterns as flower arranging.
I really, really like this, as I have never let go of Alice Walker's quote "The nature of this flower is to bloom." I'm off to investigate my inner flowers. Thanks, Simone!
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One of the coolest things I learned in my floral arranging class was that of the tussie-mussie. I believe I gave you one :)
I loved the idea that each flower was a "word" and each bouquet, a message. Arranging the flowers to say just what I wanted in a way that was both visually appealing and meaningful? Totally cool. Good luck with the pattern hunting! :)
I love that "immature and out of control" translates as "fun and bouncy"! Yay, thank you for the kind words.
I'm still thinking about patterns-as-flower-arrangements. I really like this because when I think of the word 'pattern', now I smell roses. And also because it reminds me that there is no such thing as a 'bad pattern'. How can a bunch of flowers put together be bad? They can be re-arranged to be more congruent and harmonious... but they're still flowers! All the components are all lovely and innocent.
T, I do remember the tussie-mussie! I still have the paper with your description somewhere, and tried to find it, but since I still have boxes of stuff up by my parentals, I think it's hiding in Ithaca.
(P.S. If you get this, I also got your art papers returned (to C's) ages ago - let me know if you still want!)
Simone, I definitely like the idea of viewing one's patterns as having completely innocent, sweet, "oh I'm here to be useful and pretty" kinds of motivations :)
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