New faces.
I've been honored in the past two weeks to have some new people showing up at the studio: Michael, Jason, Phil. Isaiah has been by as well and it is always a pleasure to have him around. Spending time with people at the studio is so different from seeing people in other settings. At the studio there is an excuse to stare, to look beyond the surface and try to find what this individual has to say -- verbally and visually. It always awakens my sense of how different everyone is.
In my attempt to represent the "space between" the object and the viewer I keep falling back on information that Wendy Palmer shared in her book The Intuitive Self. She talks about the self being expressed along two axes: the vertical which encompasses gravity, gut, heart, head, and spirit; and the horizontal which encompasses time, history and future, position, and relationship. If you can find the place where those two axes intersect you are in the present moment.
She also expresses the idea that we all operate within a bubble, the shape, size and texture of which we can determine. The bubble is the personal space we embody. To have an expansive bubble you have to have a secure center in order to maintain balance. My four studio visitors made me see a range of "bubbles" and increased my ability to view the "space between" in new and different way.
I'm curious to see how that translates to the canvas.