Anisette Studio

Good morning! May love and laughter find you! Working in the studio, that’s where you’ll find me. I have begun an abstract painting for the collaboration. I am excited and apprehensive. I feel I have mastery over the oil pastels, but an abstract differs from a still life. This lesson will be different.

Otherwise, I am back to thinking about consciousness. Growing up having consciousness as being “think before you speak.” To explain, my elders always had similar sayings, and expressed it as being conscious thought. They would sometimes use the word conscience. So, my perceptions this way evolved. There are a number of ways of being conscious I conclude.
“Use your head! Think!” “If you close your mouth and open up your ears, you can learn a lot!” Even, “Silence is golden!” Being silent took you to a place where you would tap into a conscious state, before you, the world at large and you would observe it. I learned to love it. Listening to the world, feeling its energy came easily to me. There was a lot to think about. Children observe and that is how they understand.

It would be later in my life when I would sense a different kind of consciousness. The awareness of self now had a label. This was being conscious. Ii think one comes to realize there are ages and stages to living life. This concept comes home the moment you’re a parent.

Selfsameness compelled me to learn to feel the world around me. I felt energy. There was energy from the things around me, from people. Sometimes you could see the energy around things. This energy connected me to those very things in the world I learned to love, like grass, trees, trees and the earth, small things on its surface, under the grass fascinated me. When I dug holes in the ground I discovered roots, this compelled me to replant things or just partially dig them out when digging that hole to China we do as children. Those roots represented life, this plant was alive due to its roots, its connection to the earth. This was something I should respect!

I turned to the sky, and felt amazed by clouds, the treetops, birds. Then in school we learned science and I was truly amazed about the purpose of plants and animals, the water systems, ecology____. Then, connections to the earth were discussed. Thoughts broadened. Later I moved into physics and learned about quantum physics, quacks, string theory____. More fascination. Then I learned about neurobiology, the brain, consciousness, and more about being a conscious human being. Consciousness towards others and the earth.

Then came the leap that nothing would exist without being conscious. It whatever “it” was would not have the will to become what it was or is. That thought captured me. It is how we are all connected and connected to the earth.

Best wishes, Pejj Nunes