There was a particular dialogue that preceded the assignment that I felt particular drawn to:
"It is actually impossible to plan for an authentic life. You must be vibrantly ready for the truth of your life to reveal itself to you from moment to moment. You can choose to taste the freedom of not knowing ahead of time what will be created today. So it is the same for this collage process. Art mirrors life and your capacity to open up to life is related to how willing you are to freely express yourself spontaneously and follow your inner urges. Your truth is built on a succession of impulses that express your life force a little more each day."
Collage Exercise:
Daily Practice: Cultivating Loose Play The daily practice this week is to simply and playfully paste together random images without thought on one page of your journal each day. Try to fill the whole page with imagery and words but do not feel pressured if your choices for the day are simple and spare. If you feel the need for empty spaces, allow that. I recommend pasting your collage on the right page of your journal and writing insights and intuitions on the opposite page. The simple act of pasting random images together, with an open, quiet mind allows new connections to arise into your awareness. Insights may come unexpectedly and spontaneously after the collage is finished. Progressively, I will offer some directed methods to help you deepen your connection to your collage. Until then it is helpful to loosely play and paste down anything that attracts your attention. Let yourself lose track of time. Do not strive for meaning or engage your logical mind as you create. It is important that you reflect on your collage after it is finished rather than during the process.
Trust that as you cut out the images, you are piecing together a waking dream that you might not understand at the moment, but which will gradually make deep sense within your being. Immerse yourself in a sense of deep play. Remember when you were a child and you allowed each moment to unfold. Similarly, don't just rush into achievement with your collage. Play with the arrangement of your images before you cover the back of your images with a glue stick and place them in your journal. Allow your first spontaneous collage to be quite rough and playful. For now, it is important to just begin.
The below is my result of random play..which seemed stifling...surprisingly it has brought my mood down..I viscerally feel the feeling of "I don't like being in a box" and feel kind of somber. Its interesting how a small exercise I've allowed to have such an impact on me. Maybe because Ive been on such a high. Its not that I don't like the result..its ok...its just the process was not fun. Its feels less orderly than my other random images. I know the process cant be always fun (deep down). I think now that I've tapped into what it truly means to express myself freely. I have a BIG problem when I dont feel like I'm able to express and am told what to do. Art has made me so raw. This is going to take some getting used to....
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