Spectrum of colours

Every art piece is a spectrum. I have read a lot on Autism, and it fascinates me how it is a disorder with many syndromes.

Every child may be uniquely different even though the diagnosis states the same disorder, the symptoms and spectrums may be completely different.

I think art can very easily relate to that notion. We are all together in being diagnosed with love for art; painting, creating, blending colours, and so on, but our symptoms are what make us unique.

How we handle our love for art, just as how an individual with autism may handle his/her diagnosis.

I like nondirective art sessions. The type where you let go of your mind, allow your subconscious and conscious mind to be in the same room and not go mental, instead, experience free association through means of arts. This is precisely why I do not aim for a certain theme when I purchase a canvas, unless I have an image in my mind, or I am inspired in some way to create an imagined image in my head, and that leads me to the colour selection, size of canvas and materials that I would like to use. In this painting, I let go of my hands, and allowed my senses to lead me, gave my cognitive abilities a break actually, so that analyzing wouldn’t be too hard later on after getting some rest.

Once done with the painting, I hung it on my wall. You see, I have a tendency; I like to think and make decisions when I am having some solitary time. In my solitary time, I tend to sit on my couch, and stare right ahead at a wall full of my paintings hung nicely and neatly. This painting, very much reminds me of boundaries, hence the title.

I did not focus on the meaning of colour combination, I focused more on the general outline the structure of the lines, the thickness of threads, the layers in the paintings, and it just looked a lot like the boundaries we build in life. They may be invisible in reality, but their effect is highly visible, and this is one of the major questions of our lives: how we keep boundaries, what permission we have to cross boundaries, and how we do so. Art does imitate life; it has to come from somewhere. To put boundaries and limitations on it doesn't make a lot of sense to me. Boundaries are actually the main factor in space, just as the present, another boundary, is the main factor in time. Boundaries are to protect life, not to limit pleasures. Dreams have always expanded our understanding of reality by challenging our boundaries of the real, of the possible. To some, boundaries is what the believe stopping them from living a healthy happy life, I believe that maybe boundaries are precisely what may be keeping us from knowing too much about other, hence, saving our sanity, saving our souls and hearts. Know imagine with me for a minute, if we had no boundaries, and everyone behaved the same precise way to strangers as they did with husbands, as they do with work colleagues as they do with their siblings. Sure, this world will be more connected than any human brain can possible imagine, but is that really good? Can every one handle too much honesty? Can someone feel comfortable being 'there' for everyone in their know-circle of friends, family, work peers and so on? Maybe, boundaries help us sometimes… maybe space is needed for contemplation; maybe space is needed for us to hide some secrets until we come back to reality? Maybe boundaries help us escape, more than they limit us, but that is only what I see… what do you see?