Laydee Lane

December 2005

December 1, 2005

As the new year approaches us we are forced by our media frenzied culture to re-examine our already "re-examined" lives and expected to tout' with good pleasure how we will start anew on the "mythical" January 1st , bright, fresh, changed, and determined.

This must be part of the symptoms of what is the underlying "ailment" of our society. An overload of "societal" cues blasting the ease and shallowness of change and an underestimation of what tools are needed to see this process through to a successful conclusion

I invite you, the Artist, to embark on this new journey with me. I hope to uncover and unearth long lived truths that are endanger of being forgotten or even forsaken. That is why as a writer and artist, I choose to start here. Where? Here. Where the cycle of old is slothed off like scaly dead skin to welcome new fresh tender skin in it's infancy. Here where the "Artists"...are....who are all too familiar with the cycle of old to new. In fact it may be one of the largest factors that influence our art today. Artists live, eat, and breathe this cycle of old to new.it's what stirs, disturbs, frustrates, and challenges us. To change is to be alive.....to stagnate is to die. So what makes us vulnerable to the rhythms of life more so than maybe the average person? Hmmmmm.

It's a thought worth exploring. But in it we might find answers that we may not like. We may find in our uniqueness to be overly perceptive of the rythyms of life. It can also make us close ourselves off to those that are most important and closest to us. Because in the very essence of vulnerability, pain plays a secure and essential role.

In our worlds as Artist's..painter's, sculptor's, writer's, poets, .etc., we choose to engage life on a level that maybe the average person can't or won't. But we must always be careful that we don't withdraw from our friends and family without being aware that we too can be guilty of not engaging in and living life on a daily basis, and therefore not appreciating the ordinary things that we as artist's reflect in our works as extraordinary. The laughter of a child, the beauty in your wife's smile, or being moved by tradgedy to pour out your soul onto canvas.

We also have a responsibility and an opportunity through our work to reach through diversities beyond differences and grab hold of others to pull them into a glimpse of our cycles of life, thought, spirit, and soul.

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Laydee Lane is a Houston artist, visit her page here on ArtValet.com Artists.LaydeeLane

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