I am going to start writing a few blogs about the meaning behind my drawings. Hopefully, if you like the drawings, you will be able to find your own meaning too. My drawings more and more reflect my interest in horses, symbolism, teaching the Alexander Technique, positive thinking, tree planting and the environment and more. It has taken me years to find a visual language to bring my ideas, thoughts and feelings together. I am very happy with how things are progressing.
This drawing, Feel, is about how it can feel when we are faced with the challenge of the unknown. It’s about letting go of holding so that we can move into the potential space that is the future freely and with confidence. There is both hesitation and poise in the image. Have you noticed how the feeling of fear and the feeling of excitement are much the same?
The hand suggests lightness. Light with each other, light with horses.
There is a saying, whenever we point a finger at someone, there are also three fingers pointing back at ourselves! And another saying ‘Let go and let god’ advises us that we need to trust for the magic to happen. So this drawing is about trusting and taking responsibility for our deeds and actions and not blaming others, and especially not blaming our horses.
This image also indicates how to develop feel. Great feel can be developed with practise, your hands are incredibly intelligent. Your hands are genius in action!
Only minimal effort is needed in the hand to lightly hold them forwards. Let go of all that is unnecessary. The horse, small like a bird, delicately sits on a finger symbolises lightness, up flow, sensitivity, poise and freedom. The finger points forwards and upwards – a direction for life, a direction to travel into freedom, a thought to which the mind and body responds. One way to develop sensitivity and feel is to start to think forward and up into the space around you as you let go…
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