Chiaroscuro
When learning the visual arts, you see that darker tones recede and the brighter tones advance towards the eye. Painters, photographers and designers use this basic reality to their creative advantage. Chiaroscuro (Italian word meaning.... light dark ) is an oil painting technique that uses strong tonal contrasts of light to dramatic effect. I am mulling over the receding bliss of awakeness that recently engulfed me. To sit in the joyful being of awareness is what I have longed for. As an I, I learned, that this felt awakeness is absent while "I" am present. (There is too much bandwidth used maintaining the framework of a personal life.) When I serendipitously recedes into the darkness, the shining aliveness advances.....comes to the forefront. But I cannot make it happen, like a painter can deliberately load titanium white on a brush. I struggle with this....used to thinking that I can do (more or less) as I please, assuming intended results would (more...