Mixed metaphors and tangents

“A beginning is the time for taking the most delicate care that the balances are correct..”

Dune -Frank Herbert

There is a feeling of directionless energy within me. I’m going to work my way through it. It’s due to positive changes in my llife. If I'm honest it scares me a little. A sea creature used to the crushing pressure of the midnight zone, I find my self emerging in to the sunlight zone. My form needs to adjust. Adjust to the new currents and pressures. There’s nothing unique in this, I think we all go through the same process.

I think it is the process of change; the energy it takes to put down roots, to stand in place that scares me.

When I put my poor mental health and unhelpful coping mechanisms in the past, I thought my growth was done. Heh it turns out I just cleared the chaff and weeds. Now the growth starts.

Combined with the challenges of the current state of the world and how to help my kids navigate it, it’s a lot. There’s the temptation to retreat to the familiar depths, to allow the weeds to take over again.

I truly no longer want that, but the depths and weeds, would be different this time. They promise. I know I don’t want that, so it’s one eye on my growth, one eye on the temptations and one eye on my mixed metaphors and biblically accurate eye count.

There is no option for me to add alt text so it’s here.

The above image is a fluid composition of text. The text is layered and written in different directions in a variety of media.

Some text is smudged out some is just about legible.

The negative space between unconnected words has been emphasised in places with zinc white oil paint.

I am trying to resolve a tension I see between my ideas, planning and completing a work. They all exist as integral parts of the whole, but not always given the same weight. Final image I just where I stop my process.

This is the thread of the intent of the text on display.

Above is another text composition. The same methodology as the previous image has been used.

The thoughts recored on this were a tangent to the previous image.

Here the thread of thought was information loss and thermodynamics. Just thoughts and wonderings. I gained no answers, I'm hoping my insights are on the way.

The negative spaces have again been emphasised but this time in paynes gray.

Does the process of emphasised negative space reveal what I seek?

The stage I’m at needs a review of my work and a dive into theory. The work will come. I’m thinking of books and visual research essays.

This ramble is long enough so, until next bat-time, adios.