Noticing what is overlooked...
Pavement Universe
It started with 2 flower petals...
their bright colours were giggling joy from the grey stillness of the pavement.
They were screaming aliveness in the clammy hot summer day I discovered them...
Little did I know I entered a whole new Universe that brought me
unimaginable realisations for over a decade...
The pavement holds...
The pavement is there for our convenience:
it's fairly stable, fairly even and somewhat unchanging...
therefore it holds up everything the Earth would soak in:
physical objects, weather related additions and connects them via chemical reactions.
All of us are part of the Pavement Universe: molecules of elements, plants, animals and humans. It holds up our stories yet remains overlooked and unnoticed.
We all take part, leaving items, impressions, remains of our movements, existence on the spot, in the moment.
Fascinating...
It's a silent dance of happenings:
ever-changing quiet composition of dust, wind, rain, shadows of things of all shape and size, bright reflections and relations, hard or soft footsteps, losing items unnoticed...
unknowingly left impressions.
Welcoming everything with its composition of physical and chemical. Holding them up, merging with weather and nature, subject of the tooth of time: cracking up, disappearing, merging what dwells in the soil underneath: growing roots, covering lichen, fresh and withered flower petals, leaves, lost jewellery or plastic toys... all is welcome, held — as they are.
It gave me the biggest treasure in the deepest darkness: I didn't have to be an artist!
I could be empty, transparent, free: noticing the beauty that is temporary, overlooked and so, so precious... I didn't have to make art anymore! Merely interpret these mysterious miracles that are openly held in front of all of us, created by the world.
Art is free to arise in any moment and any form... noticing, creating, all is an overflow, free from the limitations of a 'me'. There's no special artist present, Art is present. "All it takes is to be human" ~Papaji
