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Stephen Gilbert is a Seattle abstract water colorist working out of Ballard. He received art training at Bethel University, St. Paul Minnesota, Seattle Pacific, Cornish College of the Arts and Gage Academy.
When the feelings come, the less-than-acceptable, less-comfortable feelings, what do you do with them? Where do you put them, shove them, send them off to?
Joy on one side, sadness on the other. Ease on the left, frustration on the right. Peace in one step, chaos in the next
In all of the Universe, does stillness really exist? With everything pushing and growing and moving all the time, air flowing, planets rotating, trees rooting and budding flowers and leaves...
Beautiful in their desire to live on purpose, to live in the open, to live embracing vulnerability and the risk of letting themselves be seen. Beautiful in their creation.
We are marketed a happy life. A happy life that looks and feels just so. A happy life that may contain some reality, and some fantasy.
Question: Is it our ideas of what will happen, our planning for it, our counting on it, that secures our success?
Somewhere inside us all, all of us human beings, is the child. Even when we are older, wiser, more experienced, good at taking care of ourselves, adept and successful at many things, deep within, the child is always present.
All clearing the old, that may want to linger out of habit, but no longer fits, no longer serves. Clearing to take in.
Sometimes you have to scream. Sometimes there is no other solution – nothing peaceful, nothing nice, nothing graceful to fix it – the scream is all there is.