Art is a kind of innate drive that seizes a human being and makes him its instrument. The artist is not a person endowed with free will who seeks his own ends, but one who allows art to realize its purpose through him. -- Carl Jung
My dear friend Orma Hammond is an artist and I love her work. On March 29, 2006 at Sacred Ordinary I posted photos and a story about a site in Malaga Cove I call "The Arches." I have photographed it often over the years. I purchased her painting and it hangs in my dining room. In the March 29 post I included a photo of the art and the photo she took that she worked from. Here is a replica minus its frame.
Some weeks back I attended a local craft fair and to my great delight, I saw prints of a different view of the same scene in a booth local artist Carlos Lopez and his daughter were hosting. Again, I was utterly captivated. I bought an 8 x 10 copy of it which I am in the process of framing today.
Jung's quote at the beginning of the post seemed particularly apropos when looking at Orma and Carlos's way of viewing a site I personally love so much. Like I tell people who come to journal in my groups, "No judgments, no comparisons, give up our need to understand."
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