Honestly
Honesty bravely looks into the dark and makes bare the hidden human. Truth, found by honesty, is more apt to be obtained in the colored canvas than in doctrinal works.
posted by Nate Mecham at 2:03 PM
posted by Nate Mecham at 2:03 PM
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I'm looking bravely into the dark and I'm not sure what I see. Could you make it more bare?
I like the begining of this quote. I think being honest with ohters is bravely looking into the dark because we proceed blindly accepting others reactions, positive or negative, in the name of truth. Honesty causes each of us who persue it to break away from the social masks we wear and makes bare who we are.
So why are you hiding behind those plants in your profile picture, huh Nate?
Emotions, passions, interests, ideas, relationships, faults, failures, idiosyncrasies. All these things are parts of us, they are us. They are things we sometimes hide from the world, from our friends, from ourselves. And we aren't just hiding negative things; we often cover the beautiful and unique for a litany of reasons. And being honest about these things renders one vulnerable.
To be honest is to tell the truth. We associate finding truth with finding God, and part of that truth is finding ourselves. There is a quality in art that stirs within me the desire to be honest, to step closer into the truth, to step closer to God. I believe this is because on the canvas the artist has been honest, he has painted his unfiltered self into the work.
I am hiding behind the plants because it's fun.
Your canvas is much like my violin. It is a place for completely honest expression. Like your art, performing makes me vunerable in many marvelous, precious, and frightening ways. Through my practice each day I understand myself better, and understand God better.
Once upon a time, I was driving in the car with my Dad and we were discussing the power of music. He said something that I've thought a lot about since. He said "Music allows us to feel emotions we didn't even know we had. I know my eternal self better through music." This is certainly true for me. Music, like visual art, is a medium by which we become honest with ourselves about our joy, sorrow, suffering, spiritual gifts, etc.
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