Inner Conversations Stories about Life by Iris - HTML preview

Horse Painting

When I paint, I let the colors flow freely to form

something that I will eventually underline and refine.

Once, I was working on a painting and the paint had

flowed together to form two horses. One of the horses

only had two legs. My mind instantly insisted on

adding two more legs. But I just didn’t feel right about

it. So, I set it aside. One day, I looked at it again and I

asked myself - What happens if the horse wants to be a

human?

“If I keep focusing on what it must be, I will never find

out what it can be.”

I could have easily told the viewers that the painting

wished to express a horse without front legs and

classified this as abstract. But I could not do that

because even though I was not in the painting, I was

actually part of the painting. This was a two-way

communication. 

“If I don’t offer my attention and knowledge, I cannot

expect stories to be pouring out of my paintings.”