Tag: garden-drawing
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26- Drawing the Soul
The Soul lies above the Mind, Heart, Body, and Psyche in every garden I draw. And yet, despite its prominence, it often remains empty or marked only by a few sparse twigs like this one below. Today’s exploration focuses on the Soul, its sparse vegetation, and its emptiness. Can we find meaning in what is…
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24- Drawing Body
I find the Body garden section easier to describe than the Heart or Psyche sections we recently explored. Its physical nature makes it quantifiable and cause-and-effect relationships between external actions and internal states should be easy to identify and measure, right? It is with this in mind that I focused today’s drawing almost exclusively on…
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22- Drawing the Mind
My grandfather asked me once when I was a young boy what I was doing sitting still in his living room. I told him I was thinking. His reaction was: “I could never do that, thinking without doing anything else”. He was a very driven person, always active and his comment stuck with me ever…
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20- Drawing Heart
The heart section of the garden is a bit of a challenge for me. I find the emotions and activities here to be more personal and intimate than the ones in the body or mind sections for example. Maybe that is also why it took me almost two months to document this November 2024 drawing…
Serious Matters Simply 