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Everyone is a Hunter

2/11/2021

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notans from hiking photos
Everyone is a hunter
Some hunt for love
Some hunt for independence
Some hunt for a sense of purpose
Some hunt for the truth
We shouldn’t be afraid of the hunt
Wherever it takes us
Or whatever it makes us
Find what matters

And keep hunting

(Source: something I watched on tv.  I was so busy writing down the dialogue that I forgot to write down the source.  ha! Whatever the source, the words are not mine)


This week I spent a lot of time hunting.  

Hunting for beauty, for light, for composition.  Hunting for that feeling you get when you've pushed your body a little beyond what it wants to do.  Hunting for sun on my face, snow crunching under my boots, mud squishing as I lift my foot. Hunting for deep, meaningful connection and lightheartedness and earnestness.  Hunting for a quiet mind and peaceful heart.  

And  hunting took me into the frozen tundra of Silver Star Mountain and then to the warm sun and mud of the Oregon Coast.  My feet were made for tromping.

I've written here often about the softening of my edges and the opening of my heart.   And what I found in my hunting is this:  it takes me a little longer to process these experiences lately because they soak in well beyond my surface.  There is so much...so very much...exquisiteness and beauty and sound and scent and texture and feeling and OH OH OH.  

So, as I process it all today, I contemplate the next painting. With more images to choose from than an artist maybe has a right to have, I've narrowed it down to the three here.  Notanized photographs from these hikes, with interesting compositions and values and line and shape.  Not too busy, not too simple.  I will put these on the wall of my studio to contemplate.  But, dear reader, if you have an opinion on which notan is most interesting, let me know in the comments below.   Wherever your weekend takes you - happy hunting!
4 Comments
Carl Stoveland
2/11/2021 05:04:06 pm

Hunting, improvement. There has to be the quest for some kind of forward movement. Being fully engaged in everything heightens the richness of experience you are right. We are all trying to answer the question what are we here for?

I like all three pieces but the bottom one is most compelling to me.

Carl

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jen
2/12/2021 12:37:44 pm

Carl! "what am I here for?" holy cow I don't know for sure...but hunting for the answer is the best experience ever. :). Thanks for weighing in on the notan choices. The one you selected calls to me for its drooping diagonal....

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Dotty Seiter link
2/11/2021 05:58:59 pm

Jen, the exertion, pause, and focus of hunting, foraging, and seeking are touching and lifting me. Grateful that you shared. You struck a chord in me that I didn't even know wanted striking.

In this moment the abstract feeling of the upper left image is pulling me.

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jen
2/12/2021 12:39:39 pm

Dotty! I am so happy to have plucked your hunting chord. :). Thank you for choosing a notan - the one you selected moves me in its strong depth and large shapes. Even in its simplest form, it reads like a grand landscape and sky,

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