Growing Young

"IT TAKES A LONG TIME TO BECOME YOUNG." - Pablo Picasso


Some say that all our adult lives are spent trying to return to what we
instinctiely knew as chidren. Ofcourse it's not quite like that because
what we really wish to do is to bring together the Consciousness of the
adult capacity with the Life flow and Life force that simply moves through
the child without resistance by ego or even by Knowing. The tree of Good
and Evil and the Tree of Life, reconcililng. So with our best art, we find we
are both these - the playful child knowing now limits, enjoying, moving
with a large force of body or spirit or a melody within with, carving out a
vision in paint one would be unable to articulate as it is primary process,
and lies below the level of the conceptual mind acquired in school; --
and the adult --analytically observing what we have done , using all our knowledge of
what constitutes 'good art' and all our experience of how to work toward that
vision. In so doing art we are reconciling and uniting all our parts, our history,
our being so alive when we were young, into the present moment. As Joseph
Campbell so well put it: What is it we really want in life? We want the experience
of BEING FULLY ALIVE. As the artist, we learn how to tap into what we are/were
and find it flow has not lessened.

Women of Avignon - Picasso
River of Life -- Amy Barker-Wilson