Everyone is a Hunter

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!