When You Find Your Tribe
Punta Nizuc, Mexico. – Underwater Sculpture by Jason deCaires Taylor
I started an Art Monday feature on a FB page I manage, sharing a work that I have discovered during the past week. It has been fun and certainly expanded my mind and knowledge. Today, while researching Cornelia Konrad’s work, I found an art installation site that moved me to tears. Scanning these installations I connected to almost every one. It was like finally meeting people who ‘got’ me. I am fumbling with words to describe a visceral, almost molecular reaction to the photos. To photos for goodness sake! Would being face to face with them be too much? Or would I be disappointed?
How strange we humans are, how differently we react to stimuli. What moves me to distraction leaves another cold and wondering about my sanity. Then I see what moves them and I am questioning their tastes. LOL Did we come by these reactions via nature or nurture? Like anything else about us, I suspect it may be the alchemy of both. But I think back over my childhood and see nothing in it that would come close to nurturing this extreme appreciation of some art. But then so too my family tree. So where forth do you come, oh inspiration? Is it that tricky little thing called soul, that has nothing to do with nature nor nurture? That is only us, our essence that we landed with? But still, the why persists. Why would my soul come so equipped? What would be its purpose? Of course, by ‘soul’ I am not referring to the Christian concept, at all. More the spiritual ‘we’re all one energy ball of something’ kind of thing. Ok, I have gone down a rabbit hole that I want nothing to do with.. so let me just back out of here.
Ok, I’m back. It is all about the questions with no real expectation of answers, at least any that would pass the test of my cynicism. Funny but I think the questions are in and of themselves enlightening.. at least to me.
Go check out the web site and see if you get shivers from inspiration or from left cold. What does send you over the moon?
donnae.ca 
Aha, very interesting to a fellow, but different tribe member. I feel I am circling like an eagle round and round and up and up or down and down…..and do these spacial metaphors help? but what else do we have, nothing. Our best metaphors for soul originate in the material world. Of course they do. Thats what part of us is , and the other part? I don’t “do” the either or thought construction tend toward synthesizing. Not thought this through — right off the top of my head, so don’t pay no never mind…..
love,
meri
June 28, 2016 at 4:36 pm
💜 I could read your comments all day long. Feel free to come back after some thought, it would be interesting if your thoughts on the subject changes.
June 28, 2016 at 4:58 pm