Something About The Pain’s Environment

Giora Carmi I am taking the car to the repair shop. I wait for the mechanics to finish, sitting in a café nearby. I have my paints with me.

This is what comes out:

And the words follow quite easily:

Open the sky, my friend

Do you see the burning earth energy

As it hurts and shakes the foundations of your hopes?

I am who I am

Yes, and there is more to come

You’ll be reminded of the death of the flesh

It dies as old memories

Come closer, look and wonder

It is time to venture into the freshness

I am making it hurt more

For the time being

A blessed being.

Now something strikes me. The two drawings that I did with markers and colored pencils have a lot in common. They have the pain in the left. They have a different kind of space opened, They have shapes delineated with grey lines, They have something green in them, They have dark shapes floating in the space, and there is a lot of movement in them. And now I remember the first drawing of the pain in this blog. Remember the green, which seemed to be the only positive thing happening there? (The Pain Forces Me To Look At It, second drawing) Something is cooking here, friends. It is time to investigate deeper. Wait for the next posting.

I used to be a graphic designer and an illustrator. I became involved with the Chan Meditation Center and studied meditation and Buddhist knowledge with the late Master Sheng-yen from Taiwan. For twelve years I was in a process of deepening my meditation. I had many more experiences and insights and my life changed. After having illustrated more than 40 children’s books and writing two of them, I left this career too and went to New York University to study art therapy.

You can see more about Giora’s work on his blog and website