Anisette Studio

The Driveway at Muddy Brook Cottage. By Pejj Nunes.

Good morning! May love and laughter find you! May happiness follow you all your days!

An overcast day at this point in time. My coffee’s ready at hand. Jacobie and Emma will be off to dance soon. It pleases me to see them, mother and daughter doing the things they love. Cheering____. In part because I did not have these experiences. Emma is quite the young lady. I am glad to be the influencer too. I have both Em and Ollie reading and loving the library. I can teach about art. There are many things to offer up to children, taking the time is so worth it.

“I think what we’re seeking is an experience of being alive, so that our life experiences on the purely physical plane will have resonances with our own innermost being and reality, so that we actually feel the rapture of being alive.” Josph Campell, writer and professor. I identify with this statement because of the things I think about. Mostly about what it is to be human, and how we carry ourselves as individuals. Why we do as we do. My habit of feeling the world around me is kinetic. There is an energy that radiates off all things, and when in touch with it through acknowledging it, it is there! I think when you have practiced this as long as I have you notice the energy in your own hands. It’s when you notice the energy it becomes more pronounce. Like when you do energy work and move a ball of energy up and down your arm. That energy is alive! Our bodies are amazing with all that they do, the things we never think of because it is all eternal.

I am enjoying reading Your Brain On Art by Susan Magsamen and Ivy Ross because its about the aesthetics all around us, and how our mind, our bodies respond. I would recommend it to anyone not just an artistic person. My purpose for reading it is to better understand the creative process. What happens in the body as we create art. My interest is in being the extension of the tools I use as I create. How am I affected by what I do and how am I a part of the art I create. This was something that artists like Jackson Pollock thought about. Understanding one’s compulsion, going with a compulsive idea, making the decision to push it further or let it stand. Asking questions of the art coming to life before you. “What is this saying? What is it about? What point does it have? Is it about color? What does that color say? Is it in fact about the energy? Can the viewer travel into and around this work, as if in a tiny spaceship. That is the more intriguing adventure when a viewer gets involved with what they see. This is when they tap into their own senses and likely recreate how the work was made. In those moments the mind resisters many things, and sends its messages to the body, and there we are with our bodies creating oxytocin, dopamine, etc. Where we feel good or all other emotions possible.

Best of wishes! Pejj Nunes