Fun With Photos
art
Seeking Harmony and Balance In Relationships
Playing With Sticks
Playing With Sticks
I’m old in years, young at heart,
still a child entertaining myself,
randomly moving Thoughts about-
playing happily with sticks
in the playground of my mind-
sticks like ‘Crafts for a Practical Purpose’,
‘Arts for Aesthetic Pleasures’,
‘Art for Art’s Sake alone’…
Sometimes Definition-Descriptions
seem to overlap, lines get blurry-
a weaving to hang on a wall,
a painting to complement a couch,
a chair never meant to sit on,
a clay pot to admire, not to use,
a song to advertise products to sell,
a drum roll to start a revolution,
a book of writings to pay the rent,
an arrangement of flowers celebrating occasion,
a sculpture to support some weighty books…
When does Fine Art serve Practical Purpose?
Why does Fine Art hold higher Status?
What gives it Value…Provenance-
the record and status of Owners,
the Creator’s location, associations,
personal history, educational foundations,
the Creators artsy story,
their cultural-national identity,
technical skills and accuracy,
originality of style, composition,
trending themes, power to please,
the placement and jargon of Display?
When does Craft become Fine Art too?
We seek and make many kinds of Crafts
judging usefulness, quality, design-
both Functions and Aesthetics of Design.
We deem several Arts Fine-
Human Creative Expressions
that we hold in high esteem
but then judge much what is or isn’t ‘fine’
depending on tastes, yours and mine.
Opinions vary, people invest money,
Subjective-Objective Decisions of Value,
buying or selling, commodity trading,
marketing Creations and Creators-
those still living or profitably dead,
compounding praise and short or long term gains.
Often, Arts and Crafts become Competitions
of Winners and Losers, Victories and Defeats,
a myriad Creative Expressions Valued or Not.
Some people make and buy them just for Fun,
some to be in the presence of Beauty
in whatever form it takes.
Some people thrive on, invest in Ugliness,
a Subjective-Objective Opinion, a Statement
of how they feel and see Life around them,
the makers, the sellers, the buyers-
a Declaration of who they choose to be
in the presence of Ugliness, a Dissonance.
Arts often express and stir Imaginations.
Crafts often inspire, evoke Imagination too.
Both stretch Education beyond mere Knowledge,
beyond Rigid Data of Information
by Sprinkling Stardust on Numbers and Words,
Symbols, Sounds, Physical Actions
merging the Mundane into the Sublime.
Creative Processes enrich Cultures.
Will we let Machines create Everything-
making us the Robots, the Working Consumers
increasingly working for the Machines?
I wonder about such things
while playing with sticks in my mind.
March 8, 2023
Shelley Audrey Wilson
Victoria, BC
Pastimes 4
Glimpses of Pastimes 3
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Glimpses of Pastimes 2
Glimpses of Pastimes 1
Every Artist Has
Every Artist Has
Every Artist has a Heart-Song
you can hear and feel and see,
a symmetrical or asymmetrical
rhythm and harmony creating
through their signature frequencies
identifiable, recognizable Art
resonating with others or not.
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Every Artist has a Heart-Song
with simple or complex themes
communicating their experiences,
their views, their loves, their dreams
through spectrums and scales
of light and sound and matter,
telling us who they are and wish to be.
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We all hear an Artist’s Heart-Song.
All our Senses help us to know
when an Artist is truly free
to go where their Heart takes them,
to fulfill their chosen destiny
amidst a world of distractions,
of needs and desires met or not.
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So many Artists craft their Arts
now in the present simultaneously-
now in the past of our history-
now in the future expressions-
manifesting creative energy,
all singing their own Heart-Songs
that work to shape world views.
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Artists can advance our evolution,
create change, even revolution
in Understandings of who we are,
revealing through their imagination
glimpses of who we might be
co-creating as one in harmony
yet different as we can be.
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Is it really any wonder
that any militant, dictatorial power
forces Artists to conform or cower
fearful of their own Heart-Songs
expressing their beauty creatively,
expressing their themes and dreams,
seen as threats to such Authority.
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When Political, Religious, Commercial-
national and global bodies-
groups of people, systems and entities
are confident, secure, of their positions,
they pose no threat, no danger
to any Artists and their Heart-Songs
expressing Life freely and joyously.
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February 22, 2023
(7 groups of 7 lines)
Shelley Audrey Wilson
Victoria, BC
Turquoise Dreams- I Float In
Turquoise Dreams
I float in turquoise dreams…
turquoise and gold…
water and sun melting into memories
wrapped in gold and turquoise veils…
I am Osiris of the distant dawn,
dismembered and remembered…
I am Isis, divine wife and mother,
co-creator, equal, empowered…
I am Horus, the offspring of vision,
the knowing one who truly sees…
I am the golden history ship
that floats on forgotten turquoise dreams…
lives mythologized in pieces…
civilizations ship-wrecked in sands…
mirages floating in hot, still air…
I bury the staff and rod,
the robes, the spices, the treasures
of gold and turquoise dreams
and wake up with a smile…
What shall I wear today???
(Shelley Audrey Wilson- September, 2006)
Picture Puzzles
Picture Puzzles
Picture Puzzles Help To Teach Us
the Great Value of Flexible Thinking,
to Seek and Expand Our Understandings,
to Just Set Aside What Doesn’t Work
When Linking Pieces to Others-
‘Clues’ that Just Don’t Fit, or
‘Clues’ that Fit But Don’t ‘Actually’ Fit-
to Continue to Look For Answers
Even When Seeing the Picture Whole
In Healthy Humility As We Grow-
Always Something More To Know…
Puzzles Teach Appreciation For Uncertainties,
the Value of Honest Doubt- the Value
of Questions With Need For Evidence,
For a Willingness to Question ‘Dog-mas’-
that of Our Own or Others-
Valid Yet Incomplete Answers,
‘Collars’ that Fit but Don’t ‘Actually’ Fit-
a Willingness to Move Forward
to Higher, Wider, Deeper Understandings
that Help Us Collectively To Grow…
Some Puzzles Become More and More ‘Complex’
Exercises of a Mental Evolution
Where Intuition Breaks Through
to Aid Powers Of Intelligence,
Where Curiosity First Leads Us
To Explore Piece By Piece, Bit By Bit,
With Logic and Powers of Deduction,
With Shape and Pattern Recognition
Then To Sudden Leaps In Awareness
Beyond The Computer Mind-
a Direct, Intuitive Knowing
Then Comes To Our ‘Defence’-
an Inner Force ‘Activates’
When We Truly, Truly Care-
Helping Us To Find Our Answers-
Even That ‘Missing Piece’ of the Puzzle
Hidden Under Our Own Chair…
God Is Giving Us A Whole Universe
Of Wondrous, Invisible Puzzles,
Puzzles To Invite Us All To Grow
and To Stretch Far Beyond
What We Think We Know…
September 14, 2021
Shelley Wilson
God’s Art
Poetry In A New Paradigm:
God’s Art
There’s Magic in the Sunrise
when Nature paints His Morning Light on Trees-
on their branches, trunks and leaves…
There’s Magic in the Sunlight
when Autumn paints Her Colours rich and bold,
transforming greens to leaves of gold…
There’s Magic in the Twilight
when upon the sight of every Hue
there appears a hint of blue…
There’s Magic when bright Moonlight
kisses Father Earth from afar
and God signs Its art with shining Stars…
The Creator is in the Creation-
the Magic and Mystery in Everything,
the Art and Wonder in Everything…
September 25, 2021
Shelley Wilson
September Weaving
Child’s Play 2
Playing It Cool
Patience
I am like a child with a new box of crayons as I play with my new digital art app. Here, I am reminding myself to have patience as I learn and grow. ☺️💕✨
Flowerpoet 
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