A collection of remarkable ideas that encourages in depth imagination and exploration about life, society and philosophy through appreciation of self.
Iris H is the author of Randomness and Randomness II (Book Authority - Top 5 Best Randomness Book 2020) inpires you to think differently about life, society and philosophy and appreciate life through random creative writings and poems.
"An action is a commitment to something that you are responsible for. This action is a reflection of your limited capability in finding all possible ways of doing something."
"Life has its own emotions that one's mind shall never understand."
"It is not that we can do whatever we want. It is that we can choose to do whatever we want. We have the freedom to choose but not the freedom of having whatever we chose."
"My name is a form of a beautiful limitation in this world."
Excerpt
Why ask for change when you can change it yourself?
What are inner silence and inner sound? What are outer silence and outer sound? How do we travel from sound to silence, and silence to sound?
You may be sure about impulses and desires but how sure are you about the purposes of your desires?
An experience of something is not fixed. The memory of an experience is not fixed. And so I humor my mind and my body with imagination.
No matter how hard I close my eyes I will still remember the anger and pain. The only way is to move on. You are never guaranteed peace, recovery, revenge, forgiveness but you are guaranteed a chance to move on.
It is not that we can do whatever we want. It is that we can choose to do whatever we want. We have the freedom to choose but not the freedom of having whatever we chose.
You can get what you want but to get what you want you may have to do what you don't what.
What is real is the combination of truth and myth.
The TV is not battling for your attention. It is battling for retention.
When one encounters a fallacy, one should question why the fallacy was present among the facts and how did such fallacy blindside the person who had such ability to ascertain facts. Don’t just focus not on the error but the whole context- error, fact, uncertainty, opinion, limitation, creator and audience.
It is the space between boundaries that creates hope.
Instead of considering experiences as fixed forms, we should see them as forms of processes. If we consider an experience as a form of process, we can see how interesting and impactful an experience can be.
It is the small joys in life that bring me happiness.
When I paint, I let the colors pull me into the painting. I let the colors flow but at some point, I stop them. It is like dreaming and then waking up. Dreaming is allowing the colors to bring me to places that I have not been to. Waking up is when I imprint my familiar self on those places.
Overdoing is trying too hard.
Education is not fixed because language is always changing.
Most people see a deadline as a date that they have to complete something. A date that is fixed. They focus on production.
I see a deadline as the beginning of the next phase.
A date that can be flexible when needed.
I focus on process.
My work is a mess. But it is through you that my work becomes a meaningful mess.
We might be makers, but we are definitely viewers.
Shocking v. Beautifully shocking
A different way of depicting memories
Art doesn’t ask for reaction.
Attention is not begged.
Attention is co-created.
We sort of take for granted the people that grow and pack our food.
There is a difference between learning and understanding. As we learn, we change our understanding. As we change our understanding, we change our methods of learning.
Stop asking me to define my art. I can't define something that is constantly changing based on personal comprehension and enlightenment. Art speaks but doesn't demand comprehension without immersion.
When I saw the article titled “Thoughts about Life”, I am excited because it has nothing to do with my life.
First, I painted. Then, I defined.
It spoke. I replied.
Soon, I stopped.
For the cutting has begun.
From raw to tender.
From pure to matured.
It is completed.
Then, shhh.
Be quiet. Be still.
This can't be spoken or shared.
The more I paint, the more I drift away from consciousness.
To handle infinite, one has to make it finite.
Can you translate the painting into words?
Of course. Painting is a form of words.
I am a slave to my reasons. Nature defeats reasoning.
My name is a form of a beautiful limitation in this world.
Comparison and companionship run together.
Someone has to be non-fiction for you to be fiction. Fixity of techniques.
Fixity of ooh lah lah.
Fixity of familiarity.
Fixity is a rubble of coward continuity for the common. A rubble that abuses the true name of survival and forces the maintenance of change.
For change to occur, fixity must happen.
It will happen latent and temporarily.
But never forced and constant.
All earth is shared earth. All universe is shared universe.