Waves

Why the Waves?

Everything is waves.  The universe of space and matter is charged with energy, and this energy is organized by God or by forces far greater than ourselves into the pulsations we call waves. Waves of energy.  Like echoes of the heartbeat of the absolute being, waves give expression to the divine will.  They give form to the universe.   
    —Drew Kampion (from "A Meditation on Breaking Waves") 

As I was preparing this blog, I looked through my photo files for image and post ideas.  I came across a file on waves, started playing with them and, four hours later, was still working through it.
Holy Cow! I was supposed to be working on something else! but had used up my time and energy on the waves.

When I took this series of photos, I could feel a little resistance within.  Why am I standing here so long, taking frame after frame after frame?  I've lived most of my adult life within minutes of some beach.  For the last six years, I have not.   Well, I thought, I'll refer to these until I get my life back to the beach.
And so they sat until a few weeks ago.

Most highly creative people can tell you that the creative process is a funny thing.
Creativity is a process.  We are instruments. Creativity plays us when we're in tune and out of the way. By which I mean, not trying to control the process.  

I began to reflect on the wave photos and realized that they might be great images to use for this blog after all.  I had to let go of previous, planned concepts - that this blog would be all inclusive, a place to post a variety of artwork and integrate my work and presentation.

I pulled Drew Kampion's The Book of Waves from the shelf and sat down to read his text.  Of course, I thought.  The Wave.  It's perfect.


The waves shaped the concept of this new blog.  Like creativite and spiritual experience, like self realization, like blog posts, the waves come one after another.  Refreshing.  Refreshing.  Refreshing.

Rank upon rank of waves, leaping, curling, plunging. Each upon each, and absolutelyy infinite the variety.  No two in all the millenia curling over exactly alike.  Each one individual. Each one yet another unique expression of the complex underweavings of natural law.  Each one an identity.  Each part of one an identity. The inexhaustible creativity of it almost overwhelming. 
    —Drew Kampion (from "A Meditation on Breaking Waves")

I've spent a lot of time on the design of this and another new blog.  If I can't plan everything out in advance (and really, who can?), I like to design the structure of any new project as well as I can at the outset.  I find that a well-designed foundation helps to support whatever is built.  I had to put a lot of mental constructs aside in order to allow two good designs to arise.  As it turns out — and this makes perfect sense when youthink about it — the designs of these blogs are shaping the content.  I like that. Function follows form.

OK.  I think that's it for exposition.  I'm going with the flow.
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