Michael Faced West

"Michael Faced West" - acrylic on wood panel, 16" x 10".  Available here and at Artfinder.

"I used to think the human brain was the most wonderful organ in my body.  Then I realized who was telling me this." - EMO PHILIPS

I've been doing a lot of thinking about, well, thinking.  And about the brain and its place as the chief mucky-muck in charge of everything, even while it exists as just another vulnerable organ AND is the repository of our entire life's memories, thoughts, experiences and feelings.  Whoa.  

As I continue reading along in the Mark Manson book, my thoughts about thoughts are morphing and changing even as I watch the world transform around me.

"Don't trust your conception of positive/negative experiences.  All we know for certain is what hurts in the moment and what doesn't.  And that's not worth much." - MARK MANSON

Michael Faced West

Hmmm.  This got me thinking...what do I know for certain?  Which opened up another can of worms (well, and of course beans to go with the rice because all this thinking makes me very hungry, I mean, a brain's gotta eat) which landed me with Manson's next jewel: "Certainty is the enemy of growth."  

Whoa.  Manson posits that we should be looking for doubt - about everything.  Instead of trying to be right, we should look for where we are wrong. Because being wrong means we can change and thus grow.

While I think about that, here's my new favorite video about a deeply thinking cat.

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About the painting: This began as an abstract composition in grayscale.  Which inadvertently became a palette for paint from another painting (what can I say...my paintings and my paint palette often look similar).  Which began to have a form.  This is acrylic mixed with white gesso (to make the paint matte and chalky) with a little bit of colored pencil.