Skip to content

Mindfulness Paintings Blog!


The Mindfulness Paintings Blog will explore creative meditation exercises, mindfulness artwork and mindfulness art activities. Please share your thoughts, ideas and experiences as we journey towards being more mindful as we create. This is a safe place for the inner artist to share, notice and grow in mindfulness.


LATEST BLOG ENTRY


Is That Really Me?

January 24, 2022

Written by: mindfulnesspaintings

Creating “Is That Really Me?” was an experiment that pushed me. At the recent ISEA symposium, Brian Shorn shared a talk on surrealism: an approach I felt was too strange for my inner artist. I saw a challenge in the presentation. I embarked on an exploration: to integrate 25 different surrealistic approaches onto a single canvas. I am mindful of the challenge: combining 25 surrealistic art techniques including cut outs, cubomania, collage, bulletism, automatism, graphomania, and excavation. Bright red splatters, black drips, white splotches, and a faceless cutout cover the surface of my canvas. In the present moment, I can see this exercise stretching me. Usually, I do what satisfies my initial instincts: stay safe and “normal.” This creation disoriented me. I totally lost my bearings. When the 25 techniques found a place on my canvas, I was overwhelmed. Everything was disjointed. The task of getting the pieces to work together was daunting. At this stage of the process, I returned to my “usual” style, but I could see that I had been changed by the experience. While some of the approaches got completely buried on my painting surface, others remained front and center. I played with the different elements and even had some fun with them. I realized that my “usual” would never be the same again. The result feels odd to me. In the spirit of surrealism, this piece is strange. I don’t recognize the artist. Is that really me?  

25 surrealistic art techniques including cut outs, cubomania, collage, bulletism, automatism, graphomania, and excavation are combined in this one piece of art. Bright red splotches, black drips, white splatters, and a faceless cutout cover the surface of this canvas.

I am mindful that this journey on my canvas will likely lead to little approval, but at least I am satisfied. I tried 25 surrealistic art techniques including cut outs, cubomania, collage, bulletism, automatism, graphomania, and excavation. Bright red splotches, black drips, white splatters, and a faceless cutout cover the surface of this canvas.

Disclaimer


Click on this link to view the disclaimer.