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Rick Roberts
I believe this world is more than I think it is and that I am more than I think I am. But thinking in words and with concepts I've learned -- that limits and restricts what I can imagine and create.
That's why I love Zentangle because it's a non-verbal language of patterns and proportions which opens doors to insights which seemed locked before. Creating Zentangles opens those doors, not because they were locked, but because those doors swing on non-verbal hinges.
When I create a Zentangle I enter a meditative state and my intuition flows free. I get inspirations, ideas and answers unhindered by expectations or worries.
With Zentangle I become aware of patterns and their underlying structures. I can create new patterns. Zentangle is both metaphor and means for expanding intuitive awareness and deliberately enabling creativity to flow in unexpected directions.
As a meditational artform, Zentangle leaves a trail of creativity and beauty I can revisit and recapitulate whenever I want. So many insights and a-ha moments happen when I look at Zentangles I've drawn. They are like dreams that don't fade and continue to instruct and inspire me, weeks or years later.
Just as Maria speaks of discovering new colors, I imagine developing new symbolic languages unconstrained by the too-tight shoes of words and learned presumptions of body/mind splits and classical world views.
For all these heavy sounding words, Zentangles are light and fun. I lose myself in creating these playful and wondrous works of art that have become personal treasures.
(Click any small Zentangle to view its full size image on a separate page.)
