My third lesson was: where goes my power ? It's with me and he nurture me and grows up? It's with me or somewhere outside? Maybe a belief, a project , another person that I say I love?

Each time it's a surprise because I tend to forget easily.

Things are going well, I'm happy. I think it's not going the way I want, I'm unhappy.
I'm simplifying of course but it's a bit like that. It's not half empty or half  full glass. I'm not positivist even if it does not hurt ...

But really : am I not always the same soul? Does my power, this kind of quiet and serene strength that keeps me anchored to the ground while being in touch with the divine (everyone gives for these words his own definition) really depends on what is happening outside. 

Or what happened before, what I fear will happen in the future ? From another person "good" or "bad" for me?

For quite some time in my paintings I related to following his own path, recognizing our true soul, the true self, our mission / experience (here also everyone gives his definition).

Let's say that some points are more clear now. It come with a little pain because I had to double the effort not to lose myself in spite of the earthquake . Still every day I need to touch my true self slightly and I have recognize to not be drag by the everyday life.

Gioia

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We talk a lot about the present moment in a world that seems to run faster and faster. All of us have come to say :  "Where are we actually going?"
And yet I must say it was the second thing I discovered again in the personal and spiritual work that I had to do in the past few months.
Because yes, I tend to mechanically forget it being caught by the everyday life . I'm never fully  where I actually am.

But We can only be creative only in the present moment.
If the mind rushes into many possible or impossible future hypotheses or grieves about a past (or perhaps just the vision we have of this past), we cannot create.
We can create just NOW

Gioia

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The life and works of an artist are necessarily interlinked together. This is why I wanted to share some "lessons" that I think I have recognized during a recent and quite difficult life's experience. 

In this phase the last painting "Lilith and the elephant" (Collection: The containers) was particular important to me .

So, first lesson: be creative, really ! I do not necessarily speaking art creative, even if We all are accustomed to consider as artwork a painting, a statue, or other type of artistic works that are labeled so. 

I refer here especially to creation's moment. THE momentum.

And if we look well We all felt this at least once in a lifetime. A kind of satisfaction, of accomplishment when two so little used parts of our brain and soul got together in a given action. That's CREATION.

That's why we are all creative and we do not know it. Being creative means practicing creation in all aspects of life.
First invitation that I make to you: find your big and small moments and recognize them!

Gioia

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This is one of the most difficult painting I've been working on.

And I had to rush to complete it for an exhibition.

I was afraid I never won't !

It's true that each painting has that particular balance moment where you must decide to let it go....a bit like with children.
This one has also been a close companion in this very difficult last period of my life.

I learned (or at least recognize) many lessons...I mean TRULY learned. Because life presents us the lessons that need to be learned.

Now it's time to practice 

Gioia

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Working on the third one of the Containers' collection

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"...In Buddhism, the elephant symbol is an image of mental strength and awakening. At the start of one's path toward enlightenment, the uncontrolled mind is depicted as a wild, grey elephant, unpredictably tearing down everything in its path.When we start to acknowledge power of our mind and begin awakening process, our mind image changes to a white elephant which is directed with true life purpose.
By taming the mind, we tend to strengthen it, channeling its thoughts into resolution and choosing our own reality. "

Gioia

With known words one can say that I'm coming out of a difficult time
With a slightly different interpretation (because the words are important) we can say that I made an experience sometimes painful to understand one or more fundamental lessons because we are here to evolve
A painting often tells of at least part of this trip. I will try to dissect a little better in the next articles. In the meantime, I wish you all a good Sunday
Gioia

It's not easy here at the moment.
It's not always obvious to keep the right warrior attitude when you're scratching the bottom, or to work on a regular basis every day on a painting, even if everything that's going in life is in fact part of working on it.
So I wondered why the name of Lilith?
Not all know (me neither) that she was the first Adam's wife created with the same Earth it was build.

She did rebel to him  because she didn't want to submit and despite the reminder of the Divine she never agreed to return to Eden.
I assimilate Lilith to the insubordinate warrior (regarding her birth because the rest of her path is described as quite demoniac).

She represents as well the feminine element complementary and equal to the masculine.
And to say once again that nothing come random in life I consider that there is a reason why she has appeared now and also why she's so difficult to work on...
To be continued
Gioia

I realized, with a bit of surprise I admit, that I didn't post for a month.
This month was intense concerning the internal work and because of that I have several paintings in progress
So here I am again presenting this detail of one of the paintings in progress in the collection of The Containers 
As often I have a title that comes into my head which is : "Lilith and the elephant." And as I do not believe in chance .....
To be continued , speak you soon!

Gioia