Quite the day!

Jammin

Work in Progress

Acrylic on watercolour paper

12 x 12 inches

Barbara Muir © 2017

There is a lot going on in my family right now that is

hard, sad and frightening.  This centers around health

and our worries about family members.  At times like these

when possible, I find it is never more important to do as they say in one

of my favourite meditations and "hold a little space 

around you that is just for you."  That meditation goes on

to say, "sink back into that space."  How lovely.

For artists the space we need to hold around us is a space

for art.  The visual is always with us.  We are a bit nuts

that way.  In the midst of trouble, we're drawing the 

people's expressions in our mind.  Tonight I spent a some

time working on a little painting I started in November.

The inspiration was in one of the worst traffic jams I've 

been in in a long time.  In this city that's saying something.  

Traffic is us.

And here's the thing.  In the middle of a terrible traffic 

jam, so slow I could have turned my motor off, I was

noticing how beautiful everything looked in a harsh,

urban way.  Light bouncing off the cars, the sun setting,

my view blocked by a huge SUV.   I worked on this a bit

tonight.  It isn't finished yet, but it's getting closer. 

Have a holding-a-space-for-art day.