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Untitled | Carl Barnett Design/Studio
What does it take to find one’s path forward, to navigate the complexities of our contemporary world.
I’m told baby steps.
Told that it takes the bold.
It takes time and that time is fleeting.
At this point, I’m going by feel, tethered to a need to inspire.
Untitled | Carl Barnett Design/Studio
Untitled Painting | Carl Barnett Design/Studio
It is not enough that we have paused, it is imperative that we move forward in a different manner, see in a different light, and create with a clearer intention. After digging deep into ourselves and cracking open the stone that holds identity, the obvious step is to move outward. Rather than reaching out, and pulling in, we should be reaching in, and pushing forward. Seeing who we are and offering that as solace and solution. We each have the capacity for change, each has a role in that bigger picture, to cause the affect or merely to feel the effect. Our choice, our doing, each. To pause and reflect has a circular action, from me to you, to we and back: a ripple, sonic sound, voice on the wings of wind.
To pause in silence is the deepest sound that resonates in the body and mind. Here, we see ourselves in the context of time, place and the bigger picture of alignment, both living and non living: this planet, the stars and the black holes beyond. There is a connection that has been severed, pulled apart by the machine we’ve created, only to find, the machine is breaking down. To pause in place and rethink the direction forward is to fill the cracks with gold, building new from that we’ve learned. This is an alchemy of mind and doing, action and creation. It is not a matter of big steps or small, it is of intention, to create a ripple that creates a wave, a momentum amongst fear and stall. To say change and then make change. To move the mirror, ever so slightly, outward.
“Shut Up, The Painting” | Jamian Juliano-Villani
Where we are in place and time, always demands our attention and questioning, whether we listen and see or not, nudges our pliable destiny, building what we desire, or what we fear. This is in our choices, how we pause and pivot or perpetuate the turning wheel. What is in our control is how we react, how we see ourselves in the totality of others, nature and our place within the future. To pause is to find our place, re-coordinate and step out into the great expanse of being human, of being fallible, willful and full of hope.
Artist | Beatie Wolfe
Tadao Ando | Meditaron Space | Photography | Simone Bossi
Untitled Painting | Carl Barnett Design/Studio
We are makers and dreamers, creating cocoons and objects that reflect our inner mood and our warm bloodedness. We read and write books, nestle in chairs of comfort, pull up to tables of wood to eat our nourishing meals. We break bread and extend an olive branch, offer a warm hand shake of physical greetings. All this is second nature, what our bodies and minds crave, since beginnings past.
There is no surprise that we continue to build our furniture from natural warm woods, as nature and human kind are symbiotic, sharing the same timeline of now and past. This is how we live, how we’ll continue, how the future is secured by our need for warmth and giving. It is the evidence of the hand that draws us to the artisanal, showing who we are and why we create: sharing stories, our need for warmth, nature and the creative intuitive.
How we live in these times and forward, is predicated on how we see our true human nature, stepping back and eyeing what truly is significant in how we live our lives. This is based on instinct and emotion, what we surround ourselves with, and whom. Each of us have a story to build, a story to tell that inspires our maliable tomorrows. How our future becomes, is how we live now, what we give ourselves and those around.
To build a positive future, is to settle in the knowing of who we are and what we offer, then cocooning as we spin and expand our experience of living our lives: our experience of being human, coveting and giving.
Floating Sculptural Tile | Kathryn Robinson-Millen
Untitled Painting | Carl Barnett Design/Studio
The world continues to spin, as we spin with it, sometimes it seems, the opposite direction. It is true that we can cause ourselves our own pain and that of others, by our whirling mind of fear and doubt. History shows this, its part of our DNA, part of what makes us human, flawed in our attempts to spin forward.
In our efforts to unravel, we weave another tenuous path, adding insult to injury to our uncertain terrain. To this there is no easy answer, no elixir, no beauty so profound to sooth our ills. It is perhaps found within our consistent undoing that unties the knots, knowing this pattern exists, and persist to unweave. To move forward against the tide is inevitably, living, and to spin with the stars is human, to know who we are and the complexities within. Our existence need not be to tie and untie, but to create a more linear path, building bridges that swing, sway and reach. This is how the future is created, an alchemy of mind and making. To untie and to create. To spin a new thread.
NYC Artist Andy Graves
In light of everything troubling in our world, what is the possibility for change? What will it take to move us forward into a better way of being, whatever better means to each. Better is subjective clearly, but a needed goal non the less. But what is that? What will it take to start that trajectory, so that we may begin the changes we so desperately need.
Possibility, is both thought and action: a stone thrown, a ripple created. But as the ripples dissipate, it is perspective and intent that continues the underground movement, outward and thus forward. It is the why that creates the deepest vibration, a clarity of why we create, whether it is an object or thought, both create change. It is clarity of intent that moves possibility from thought into reality: the why before the what. This is how change moves, from the gut, to the brain and then to the hand. It is the need to express our want to change, that creates change. To articulate one’s desire does not need a particular box, it needs a voice and ears to hear: a stone to throw, circles of the like minded.
Untitled Painting | Carl Barnett Design/Studio