#037: Paradise is...

Whatever you want it to be.

(Jorge Luis Borges felt that paradise would be a library, rather than a garden, and, for many, this would be paradise.  I know I would like it.  But it would not fit everybody.  Some might feel anxious forever, whether because reading is not for them or because, despite having forever, they still feel like they could never read it all.  

For paradise to be paradise, it surely needs to be whatever you want it to be, a completely changeable and controllable tailored experience.  Whether gardens or libraries or… well, a little bit of everything you love.

And that’s just the paradise beyond.  Creating paradise now is trickier but, in your mind, you can wonder about paradise here, and beyond, if your own patch is not quite there yet.

And, perhaps, this is what our last moments will be.  Creating that paradise, whatever you want it to be, as your final neurons fire.)

#036: Belief

A stand, or column, of a height and size appropriate for you.  Upon it sits the physical representation of something you believe.   

#035: Waiting for art

A blank canvas.

Or an empty gallery.  Or an empty space on a gallery wall.

#034: Waiting for the art of the play

A table with two chairs.  On the table is a chess set, clock, notation notebook and pencils all neatly arranged and set up ready to play.

#033: Musical feels in your own space and time (Let music rouse, stir and move you!)

Sit, just sit, maybe with your head on your knee, and put on a song, maybe THE song, or a piece of music, maybe THE piece of music, that makes you feel the most, tingle the most.  Close your eyes and listen as it stirs you inside, sets your hairs on end, gives you chills, brings tears to your eyes, a smile to your lips... let it rouse, stir and move you!  Lift yourself away for a few minutes, live outside the world and yourself.  Just your mind and your music.  

#032: Silence where no sound is made (Does Silence Exist? IV)

A blank piece of wall in an art gallery.

(Or, equally, a blank page in a book or an empty museum case, etc...).

#031: Self-portrait VI: Doorways

The doorways of your life positioned around an exhibition with short explanations as to their importance.  

They could be your bedroom door(s) growing up, dorm or hotel or caravan doors from holidays, doors to particular rooms at school, cabin doors, car doors, front doors, back doors, side doors, garage doors, shed doors, attic doors, hatches, trap doors...  

Anything of significance to you.