100 days of stoicism
Mixed Media on Paper
11 x 14 inches
2017
Day 1. Fading flesh and ever-moving memories that fall into eternity.
Day 2: It's always a possibility. Accept the idea of many possibilities within one action. Something I make may have a clear initial purpose, but like many things in nature, creations evolve over time. If I take my time, be deliberate, I will let projects run their true course. Nothing is forced.
Day 3: I overate. No deep meaning. I just ate a lot. A lesson in learning to love abundance, but only for a short period. Temperance heightens the senses.
Day 4: A practice in restraint. Forced satisfaction with one thing, so I can move on to the next.
Day 5: has been full of the usual Saturday (three kids running around) distractions.
Day 6: "I'll take a regular medium with a shot of joy and a touch of wonder."
Day 7: Through stillness, time can temper many things. {sold}
Day 8: The beauty of humanity + the ugliness of humans.
DAY 9: A HURRIED LIFE IS AN UNEXAMINED LIFE. AN UNEXAMINED LIFE IS A RECKLESS LIFE. WITHOUT CONSCIOUS CHOICES, YOU SURRENDER YOUR LIFE AND YOUR DECISIONS TO OTHERS.
DAY 10: HOLD ON TO WHAT YOU HAVE NOW.
Day 11: Fear stagnation, not change.
Day 12 {sold}
DAY 13: LABOR SIMPLY, WITH LOVE, AND FOR THE COMMON INTEREST OF MAN. TRANSCEND DIVINITY FROM WITHIN IN ORDER TO CULTIVATE GIFTS TO GIVE TO OTHERS.
Day 14: We live in a stream of indivisible points of time.
Day 15: Seeing what needs to be done is most visible with closed eyes and a quiet mind.
Day 16: Let your mind be like fire. Obstacles will dim the flame at first. It consumes what's given to it and, in time, burns more brightly.
Day 17: Simply nothing, nothing simple.
Day 18: Today I gave my mind a rest and let the materials take the lead.
Day 19: The peace of minding your own business.
Day 20: "Your mind will take the shape of what you frequently hold in thought, for the human spirit is colored by such impressions." -Marcus Aurelius
Day 21: balancing life. {sold}
Day 22: There is newness in every moment. The good and bad come all at once.
Day 23: Senses may override the mind, but a steady mind can abrogate the senses. {sold}
Day 24: Don't add force to falling matters.
Day 25: The natural beauty of one thing leading to another. {sold}
Day 26: The fight against anticipation.
Day 27: Breathing in the wild.
Day 28: The calm you can find in the power you have to choose.
Day 29: A sip, a breath, a smile.
Day 30: To experience the full splendor of living in the world requires obligatory temperance.
Day 31. I'll be quiet and not force words into this post.
DAY 32: PRESENT CONVERSATIONS MATERIALIZE AND THEN PASS (LIKE A FLEETING INSTAGRAM POST).
Day 33 + 34: Two ways of passing through.
Day 33 + 34: Two ways of passing through.
Day 35: Things fill my life but do not make it whole.
DAY 36: GROWING UPWARDS, FALLING DOWN, REGROWING UPWARDS, FALLING DOWN.
DAY 37: SHE MOVED SLOWLY AND WITH PRECISION IN A HAZE OF FATIGUE.
DAY 38: IT’S NOT WHAT YOU WANT IN LIFE, BUT WHAT YOU WANT OUT OF THE WHOLE THING THAT COUNTS.
DAY 40: NICENESS + DECENCY
DAY 41: MAY OBSTACLES TRANSFORM TO AID, AND THE MIND DISPENSES THE REMNANTS OF THIS UNDERTAKING WITH STEADFAST INDIFFERENCE.
DAY 42: SET SOME HEAVY THINGS DOWN.
DAY 43 {sold}
Day 44: The exchange between a tired body and a lively mind. No peace can be held in the soul until harmony is found within both.
DAY 45: THE FRICTION OF OPPOSITES.
Day 47 + 46: May the company you keep reflect the goodness of your deeds.
Day 47 + 46: May the company you keep reflect the goodness of your deeds.
Day 48: Being here. Nothing more.
Day 49: The epic task of having enduring and self-reliant kindness.
DAY 50: POLLEN + RAIN {sold}
DAY 51
DAY 52
DAY 53: THE OBEDIENCE OF LOVE.
DAY 54: WHEN TO EXERCISE FAITH, WHERE TO PUT IT WHEN YOU HAVE IT, WHAT AND WHO TO SEEK TO FIND IT AGAIN.
DAY 55: THE COMFORT AND CONSTRAINTS OF FAMILIARITY.
DAY 56: MOVE GENTLY WITH NATURE AND THINGS WILL FALL INTO THEIR RIGHTFUL PLACE.
DAY 57: WATER + ROCK : MEANING + LIFE
Day 58: Beauty and variety could not exist without peculiarity. {sold}
Day 59: Living with disturbances rather than against them. {sold}
Day 60: The weight of living in a body. {sold}
DAY 61: THINKING VERSUS FEELING.
Day 62: Dividing my efforts between art and everything else feels like pulling the flow of a stream two opposing ways. All one can do is surrender to life's natural ebb and flow. {sold}
Day 63: Don't let aesthetics distract from true and invisible beauty.
Day 64: Second, third, and fourth guessing and knowing that nothing comes from guessing {sold}
Day 65: Melting into the passing moments.
Day 66: A loud memory ripples through my mind and deepens my existence within the present. {sold}
Day 67: Be conscious of the part in your mind where opinions form. It's there where you rule out feelings that can pull you up or tear you down.
Day 68: Using what I have because it's there. {sold}
Day 69: The thousands of tiny movements found in the appearance of stillness and balance.
Day 70: Still accepting fate and free will, there is a balance between complacency and urgency.
Day 71: Good, bad, order, + chaos are all eternal. It's living in the balance where we find our strength.
Day 72: Sweetness, youth, and the beginning of summer.
DAY 73 {sold}
Day 74: The devouring love and consumption of unguided innocence.
DAY 75
DAY 76
Day 77: The struggles of having persistent faith.
Day 78: The dance between all things imagined and in nature.
Day 79: Temperance in all things, even consciousness.
Day 80: The value of nice and like.
Day 81: Rations of love.
Day 82: The suffering of anticipation and surprising relief of actuality.
Day 83: You cannot avoid or escape fear. Discard it. These things do not surround your mind but grow within your body.
Day 84: In most cases, reflecting on things in a cosmic context reveals triviality. {sold}
DAY 85 {sold}
Day 86: Utilize gifts and push them hard enough to reach a farther distance of visible knowledge.
Day 87: Like a tree remembers to grow leaves, we remember to love one another through the seasons of life. {sold}
Day 88: How you live your life is the pebble that creates ripples in a pond of eternity.
Day 89: Being an embodiment of consciousness that reaches for the highest good is no easy task.
Day 90: I can only sense the vastness of expanding space and time if I am not in the center. Humility is a powerful tool.
Day 91: The wisdom that comes from the depth of the pathways that connect our cliche-filled brain to all of our other parts. {sold}
Day 92: When hell and high water arrive...remember to swim.
Day 93: Not getting carried away by feelings because they're always grounded by reason. {sold}
Day 94: Pain has value when the will is worth the fight. {sold}
Day 95: Letting the world in with moderation while balancing old memories with the new. {sold}
Day 96: A rested soul is rarely idle. {sold}
Day 97: Isolation: A comfortable-tasting, slow-acting, invisible poison to the human spirit. {sold}
Day 98: The new opportunities within everyday obligations.
Day 99: Use the knowledge of your natural dichotomy to pursue the light. However, keep the darkness in your mind because the only way to slay the things in darkness is to become one yourself partly. {sold}
Day 100: Accept the nature of time and aim for the highest star. {sold}