Renee De Four
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Renee De Four
š Agnes Martin - My Rabbit Hole of Exploration
This is where my journey with Agnes Martin begins - chapter 4, part 3 of A Simpler Life titled āvoluntary povertyā.
The first time I read this, I was at a loss for words. How can someone live like this? I suppose a better question is, what did Agnes Martin realize or see that most of us donāt? Somehow, she was able to see that these fleeting forms of pleasure donāt bring happiness anyway, like Rupert (Spira) says.
Something else fulfilled her and it wasnāt to be found in acquiring material objects.
Personally, I know these things donāt bring happiness, certainly not in and of themselves. Iāve known this for years yet I still fall back into these cycles of materialistic consumption. I must pay more attention to the moment that my awareness shifts from the internal to external.
āIn a world where you are constantly asked to be ācommitted,ā it is liberating to give yourself the license to be a dilettante. Commit to nothing. Try everything.ā
~ Tom Hodgkinson
~ Tom Hodgkinson
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Recent a-ha moment: Iām an expert at being myself. Iāve spent so much time searching for my āthingā, my craft to master. After all writers having writing, artists have drawing and painting, musicians have songwriting and learning their instrument - what do I have? I have me, my own unique blend of things. A Being to explore.
Maybe I donāt have one craft to master this time around. Maybe I just need to express me as authentically and unhindered as possible.
The challenge is to structure oneās workflow in a way that insight and new ideas can become the driving forces that push us forward. We do not want to make ourselves dependent on a plan that is threatened by the unexpected, like a new idea, discovery ā or insight.