Friday, August 09, 2024

MOW DO MNIE ( SPEAK TO ME)

 Mow do mnie! Speak to Me!


Mow do mnie, Ciszo!
Tys prawdziwie mi za zawsze
Ty nie oklamujesz, 
Zlym slowem nie okrasisz, 
Ty nieprawda karmic nie bedziesz.
Wierze w kazde twe slowo na slepo.
Mow, opowiadaj, zaspiewaj!
Do Ciebie dzwonie co noc
I prosze o szczerosc.

JESTEM (I AM)

Po dlugiej przerwie jestem. Pisze po polsku bo tak czuje w tym momentcie. Czuje, ze jestem.   


Mysle, ze jestem. I think I am.


Mysle, ze jestem.
Choc zamazujesz mnie
Czesto we mgle.
Swiece dla Ciebie
Bys Plynal
Wiec smialo
Kieruj sie tam
Gdzie jestem.
Jestem.
Tak czekam
Ponad woda,
Z dala od Syren.
One tylko na zgube
Ciagna do skal.
Jestem.
Rozkladam serce.
Rozpalam i czekam.
Plyn
Wiec smialo!
Kieruj sie tam
Gdzie jestem.



Sunday, May 30, 2021

I Cherish The Day


I cherish the day when beauty and goodness is seen just as that. As opposed to naive, childish and stupid.


naive
/nʌɪˈiːv,nɑːˈiːv/
adjective
  1. (of a person or action) showing a lack of experience, wisdom, or judgement.
    "the rather naive young man had been totally misled"
    • (of a person) natural and unaffected; innocent.
      "Andy had a sweet, naive look when he smiled"
      Similar:
      innocent
      unsophisticated
      artless
      ingenuous
      inexperienced
      guileless
      unworldly
      childlike
      trusting
      trustful
      dewy-eyed
      starry-eyed
      wide-eyed
      fond
      simple
      natural
      unaffected
      unpretentious
      gullible
      credulous
      easily taken in
      easily deceived
      unsuspecting
      over-trusting
      over-trustful
      born yesterday
      unsuspicious
      deceivable
      dupable
      immature
      callow
      raw
      green
      as green as grass
      ignorant
      wet behind the ears
      Opposite:
      sophisticated
      disingenuous
      experienced
      worldly
    • of or denoting art produced in a style which deliberately rejects sophisticated artistic techniques and has a bold directness resembling a child's work, typically in bright colours with little or no perspective.


June 2021. Wageningen BBTHK show.


In search of Imperfect Beauty, 
June 2021, Wageningen BBTHK show

As an artist I am especially exposed and sensitive to that. I often see how being stern, cold, purely empirical, and ruled by reason is seen as better and more practical. And although, everyone admires creative and goodhearted dreamer, when it comes to support and encouragement most people turn off and pretend to blind, deaf and mute. Ask yourself, if your child choses to go to an art school as opposed to international business school or take accounting degree, do you react with celebration? Or is it worry that takes over your heart? We become uneasy about the fact that our child might have no experience in anything, lack wisdom, mental ability to push through life with success!

What I want to tell you today is that I see this very often. Good, soft spoken people are muted by others. Although, "Silence is gold and talk is silver", loud screamer always win over gentle and shy, polite people! The noise-makers are even seem as more attractive and nice! It hurts me that as much as we write books about goodness and how admirable it is to be giving and good, we teach our children how to treat others with respect and repay good deeds with good deeds, when we actually meet a giving and gentle person who only wants peace and create happiness, we take advantage and we overtake the floor. We mute this person's gentle spirit. We think that person to be naive, even stupid and helpless. We take advantage or want to take care of them, reform them to be different. Forgetting that person sees and knows everything that is happening. He/she is just too polite to rudely slap us into awareness. 

Ok I am going to stop now. But please remember! Practice what you preach! I get it, this world is not a romantic place. It is a cruel jungle where the strongest wins. The fittest survives. But lets remember to find some space in our hearts for something extraordinary! And cherish the day when beauty and goodness is seen just as that!

Saturday, May 29, 2021

Communication

 I am sitting outside in my garden. I don't move nor speak nor sing. I listen. There is a tree and a rooftop that is particularly popular with birds. They sit there in the mornings and evenings, and sing. Every
time a bird sings, you can be sure that no matter how far the mate is, it will always reply. I sit motionlessly and carefully listen not to miss a reply. The bird that is close to me sings beautifully and after a second or two there is a faint reply from a distant far. This routine can continue for a long time and very often their songs grow more and more elaborate.


Face To Face, Wageningen, 2020

My morning meditation, living in that moment when a bird sings brought me to a conclusion. I know, you will say, "Ewa! You are not supposed to think when you meditate!" And yet! My most productive thinking is done while trying to meditate. The nothingness turns into philosophy. I think that is MY purpose of meditation. But going back to my thoughts about birds. They never leave things unspoken. They never ignore their mates call or question or warning. Why do we, humans do that? We ignore, we don't answer or hide what needs to be said? We as humans, the thinking kind, do it because we can. Heartlessly, we dismiss answering questions, calls, warnings, pleas of another human being because we like to exercise that power! Communication is power. And not communicating is even a greater power that we use to gag, imprison and destroy our mates. We can use communication, share it or withhold it.

Of all the animals on the planet we have a variety of ways of communication. We have eye contact, body language, writing, speaking, etc. etc., You know the rest. We, the humans, use it the least honestly. This is just little something to think about.

Stand face to face! Open your lines! Communicate! Especially now, that we have been confined to our homes, rooms, beds because of the restrictions! Use communication to start something good! To end what's poisonous! To create miracles! To Fix what has been broken! To entertain family and friends! To communicate! To COMMUNICATE! Or to do all these things at once!

MOW DO MNIE ( SPEAK TO ME)

 Mow do mnie! Speak to Me! Mow do mnie, Ciszo! Tys prawdziwie mi za zawsze Ty nie oklamujesz,  Zlym slowem nie okrasisz,  Ty nieprawda karmi...