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Happy New Year!
Welcome, 2012!
So how’s the New Year treating you so far? So far for me, I’d say she’s pretty decent. She started out with a serious overflow from last night (wine, champagne, chocolate) but quickly found her way to my heart, instead of my hips. Today, I set the intention that I would create more art this year and, I’m happy to say, am well on my way via my first vision board of the year.
Creating Your Vision
To me, vision boarding is not pasting a bunch of images onto a board; it’s about setting goals and intentions for what you want to manifest in your life and then finding the images that speak to those intentions. It’s extremely symbolic (at least it is for me) and really (REALLY) time-intensive. I was reminded today that a good session can easily take up to 8 hours (perhaps more) and that’s before you start to draw or paint your interpretation of what you’ve laid down.
Vision Boarding
I’ve written about vision boarding before, but if you’d like to know more about the process, it’s really quite simple:
- Start with a large board or canvas
- Cut out images or words from magazines or from your personal stash o’ pics (“O” Magazine is a great source, as is Sunset or any mag you’re interested in)
- Paste up the images/words onto the board
- Post somewhere where you’ll see it every day, for reaffirmation and inspiration throughout the year
An Interpretation
My personal vision for this year is to reinvent my creative life. My interpretation of the board is as follows:
There’s an athletic woman on the left, running towards some steps. Time is ticking away whether she does anything or not, so she best get a move on, if she wants to achieve her goals. The steps that she’s running towards are the steps she will need to take to fulfill her dreams.
In starting her journey, the first big hurdle she’ll have to face is realizing that she is responsible for her life (i.e., writing her own story); she needs to do the work and be ready when opportunity knocks later down the road.
As the runner approaches the steps, she sees a woman at the top with a colorful parrot on her head. The woman is facing forward, but the parrot is not. The parrot is challenging the runner to come up and taste the fruits of her labor. “The future looks bright,” she tells the runner (in parrot voice, of course), “you just need to connect with others and own it (create it, experience it, discover it, and live it). If you take these steps, you will have the new creative life you are seeking.”
There’s a buddha to the right of the parrot, which has petal wings; symbolizing the lightness of spirit and the growth that will take place when connecting with others and with oneself.
On the bottom right is the woman reaching for connection with spirit. I’ll probably edit this out (in addition to other “schtuff”) when I try to draw it, as I think the woman running towards the steps shows a person being proactive about it all, instead of someone reaching for something that’s just out of reach or going after something that might not be possible to achieve.
It’s a Wrap
At times, what I was doing seemed tedious, but I’m sure glad I did it. I hope to share a drawn or painted finished piece in the near future. In the interim, here’s to a New Year full of promise and creativity! 2012: She’s a keeper.
