Day 1- 20 Painting

This original painting is part of a 100 piece series that illustrates the adaptation of Stoic ideas to modern life. Day 1: Accept the body, I do not mean aesthetically but as an embodiment of ideas and a source of free will. Accept the idea of eternity. It will help soften the blow of knowing that one day I will die. When it is time to go I will know that this moment also coincides with nature’s will, because it is the moment when enough wisdom has passed from my body into the world. Day 2: “It’s always a possibility.” I often say. Accept the idea of many possibilities within one action. Something I make has a clear initial purpose, but like many things in nature, creations evolve over time. If I deliberately take my time, projects will naturally run their true course. Nothing is forced. Day 3: Appreciate abundance, but only for measured periods of time. Temperance heightens the senses. Day 4: It hasn’t taken very long for me to realize that daily living is a practice in restraint. The task of fully expressing yourself must be done in short increments punctuated with rest.  Day 5 has been full of the usual Saturday (three kids running around) distractions. Today I will accept nature’s plan without a fight. Day 6: “I’ll take a regular-medium with a shot of joy and a touch of wonder.” Day 7: Through stillness time can temper many things.  Day 8: The beauty of humanity + the ugliness of humans. Day 9: A hurried life is an unexamined life. An unexamined life is a reckless life. Without conscious choices, you surrender your life and your decisions to others. Day 10: Hold on to what you have now. Day 11: Fear stagnation, not change. Day 12: To appreciate the imperfections that accompany beauty is the be close to nature. Day 13: Labor simply, with love, and for the common interest of man. Transcend divinity from within in order to cultivate gifts to give to others. Day 14: We swim in a stream with rocks made of indivisible points of time. Day 15: Seeing what needs to be done is most visible with closed eyes and a quiet mind. Day 16: Let your mind be like fire. Obstacles will dim the flame at first. It consumes what’s given to it and in time burns more brightly. Day 17: Simply nothing, nothing simple. Day 18: Today I gave my mind a rest and let the materials take the lead. Artists have active relationships with their supplies. It’s a give and takes sort of thing. Day 19: The peace of minding your own business. Day 20: “Your mind will take shape of what you frequently hold in thought, for the human spirit is colored by such impressions.” -Marcus Aurelius

Multi-paneled Painting:Watercolor on Paper

Original:One-of-a-kind Artwork

Size:44 W x 70 H x 0.1 D in

Number of Panels:2

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